Saturday, October 23, 2010

PONGAL


INGREDIENTS NEEDED:

Rawrice – 1cup

Moong dal - 1/2cup

Ghee -1/4cup

Cashew - 10 nos

Pepper - 10 gms

Jeera - 2 table spoons

Salt to taste

METHOD:

In a kadai heat the moong dal for 3 mins. Take a cooker and pour 4cups of water.

When the water boils add the dhal and rice to the boiling water. Add required salt and cook for 3 whistles.

Roast pepper and jeera powder them coarsely.

In another Kadai add ½ qty of ghee add the pepper jeera powder then add cashew.

Lowerthe heat add the dhal rice which is cooked. Mix well if needed add more ghee.

Serve the pongal hot and steamy along with chutney and sambar.

1 comment:

Priya Shankar said...

Yay! Thank you SO much for posting this. I'm just starting to learn how to cook South Indian food.... much to my families chagrin, I've taken FAR too long to get started.

Thanks for posting these!I'll be trying the payasam first