Ingredients:-
Raw
rice - 1cup
Moong
dhal - 1/2cup
water
- 5cup
pepper
- 1/4tsp
Cumin
seed - 1/2tsp
Ghee
- 4tsp
Oil
- 4tsp
Ginger
- 1/4inch
Salt
to taste
Curry
leaves
Another Method:
Ingredients:
Rice
: Moong dal in the ratio of 4:1 for 1 cup (for 250 gms – you can use 200 gms
rice and 50 gms moong dal )
Salt
Black
Pepper: 15
Cashew
nuts: 15
Ghee:
3 to 4 tbsps
Curry
leaves
Milk:
3 tbsps
Water
in the ratio of 1:4 (1 cup ingredients: 4 cups water)
Ginger:
very finely chopped in to tiny little pieces (1 tsp)
Jeera
(Cumin) : ½ tsp
Asafoedita
Two methods of
preparations:
In
this method, you cook all the ingredients together including whole black
pepper.
Procedure:
1.
In a heavy bottomed kadai, light fry the moong dal and rice in sim for 2 to 3
minutes so that the raw smell of the rice and the moong dal is eliminated.
2.
Wash the ingredients well in water and filter the rice moong dal.
3.
In a pressure cooker vessel, add the rice moong dal and water in the ratio
mentioned in the ingredients section.
4.
Add salt, jeera, black pepper, ginger tiny pieces, milk, and curry leaves and
pressure cook for around 10 to 11 whistles so that it is well mashed.
5.
After switching off the pressure cooker, allow it to settle for 15 to 20
minutes.
6.
In the mean while, add a tsp of ghee to a kadai and in sim medium roast the
cashew nuts to golden brown colour
7.
Open the pressure cooker, immediately add 3 tbsps of ghee, a pinch of
asaofedita and the roasted cashew nuts and well mash the cooked pongal very
nicely. This needs to be done as soon as you open the cooker. Once the pongal cools
down, mashing may become difficult and it will not come smoothly.
Hot
delicious pongal is ready.
Method 2:
Perumal Kovil
Ven Pongal
In
this method, we powder and add the pepper, jeera at the end.
Procedure:
1.
In a heavy bottomed kadai, light fry the moong dal and rice in sim for 2 to 3
minutes so that the raw smell of the rice and the moong dal is eliminated.
2.
Wash the ingredients well in water and filter the rice moong dal.
3.
In a pressure cooker vessel, add the rice moong dal and water in the ratio
mentioned in the ingredients section.
4.
Add salt, milk, finely chopped ginger pieces and curry leaves.
5.
Pressure cook for around 10 whistles.
6.
After switching off the pressure cooker, allow it to settle for 15 to 20
minutes.
7.
In the mean while, add a tsp of ghee to a kadai and in sim medium roast the
cashew nuts to golden brown colour and keep it aside.
8.
Powder 20 pepper in a mixie as a coarse powder.
9.
In the kadai, add a tsp of ghee, add the powdered pepper and jeera on sim and
immediately take it out after a minute.
10.
After 15-20 mins, Open the pressure cooker, immediately add 3 tbsps of ghee, a
pinch of asaofedita and the roasted cashew nuts and well mash the cooked pongal
very nicely. This needs to be done as soon as you open the cooker. Once the
pongal cools down, mashing may become difficult and it will not come smoothly.
11.
Again add the powdered pepper and jeera and mix with the mashed pongal nicely.
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