Ghee Pongal Recipe

Ghee Pongal Recipe

Ingrediants:

Rice - 1 cup (Normal Cooking Rice )

Split yellow moong dal / Pasiparuppu -1/2 cup

Salt to taste

Water - 4 cup

Spices:

Ghee-3 tblspn

Cumin seeds / Jeerakam-2 tsp

Cashew nuts -3 tblspn

Green chilli-3 chopped

Ginger-2 tblspn grated

Pepper-1 tblspn

Curry leaves-1 sprig

Method:

Soak rice and dal together for 30 mins..Drain it and set aside..

Heat 1 tblspn of ghee in a pressure cooker and add in rice and dal...Fry this for 5 mins..

Pour in the water and bring this to a boil...Add in salt...

Cover and cook for 4 whistle and simmer it for 10 mins..Let the pressure go by itself...Open the pressure cooker and mix well..

Heat ghee in a kadai and add in cashews, cumin seeds, pepper, ginger, green chilli, curry leaves and sauté this for a minute..

Now add in rice and dal mixture and mix well..Let the rice absorb all flavours...

Mix this for 3 mins...

Serve hot with sambar or chutney..

Pictorial:

Take all your ingrediants...Please add in curry leaves too...

Heat some ghee in pressure cooker

add in rice and dal

fry for 5 mins

pour in water and salt

bring that to boil...Cover and cook

Till the rice is cooked

Melt some ghee

add in cashews

then ginger...

cumin seeds....

green chillies....

pepper....

and your curry leaves

fry for 1 min...

add in the rice and dal mixture

mix well

I stored it in hot case

Serve