A Saatvik dish
Preparation time 5 minutes, Cooking time 8 minutes, Serves 2
Ingredients
Raw Rice 1 and a 1/2 cup
Moong dal 1/2 cup
Black Peppercorns 1 teaspoon
Jeera 1 teaspoon
Ghee 3 tablespoon
Finely chopped ginger 1/2 teaspoon
Curry leaves a few
Cashewnuts 10
Salt 3/4 teaspoon
Wash the rice and moong dal together . Add 5 cups water and pressure cook for around 8 minutes. In the meantime, coarsely grind the pepper and jeera. Chop the cashew in pieces and fry in ghee till golden. Take off the stove and add pepper, jeera powder, cashew, ginger and curry leaves.After the pressure is released add the fried ingredients and mix well.
Serve hot with Sambar or Gothsu.
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have made pongal umpteen number of times..but hubby doesnt seem satsfied with any of the tastes… he is still hung over by the ‘dudhyodanam’ and ‘venn pongal’ tastes of the temple he used to frequent some decades ago !! says nothing comes close to that taste.. the gothsu however I can say comes out really well.. Help please! 🙂
also, does anyone know of a kannada/karnataka based dish called ‘cucumber pachchadi”….recipe please?? (basically finely diced cucumber with some arichcha masala)…totally satvic ..refreshing… and divine topped with fried roasted pottu kadalai!! yummm !!
cheers!
Kalyani
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Do you use yellow mong or green moong -split or whole?
Actually I thought that preparing pongal was only the art a few ladies possessed (my mom and wife included). But I tried the above recipe along with brinjal Kothsu (roasted in microoven) and it came out amazingly well. Thanks to your website that I could still enjoy the traditional pongal and kothsu in a place like Bangkok, living all by myself.