Recipe: Delicious Ven Pongal

Ven Pongal.

You can cook Ven Pongal using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Ven Pongal

1. You need 1 cup of rice.
2. Prepare 1/2 cup of moong dal.
3. It's 5 cup of water.
4. You need of Tempering.
5. You need 2 tsp of Oil.
6. Prepare 8 of cashew nuts.
7. Prepare 1/2 of cumin.
8. Prepare 1/2 of pepper corm.
9. It's 1 inch of ginger, finely chopped.
10. Prepare 1 of strig curry leaves.
11. It's 1 pinch of asafoetida.

Ven Pongal instructions

1. Soak 1 cup rice and 1/2 cup moong dal together for an hour. Then wash it thrice and drain off the water completely..
2. Then add them into a pressure cooker and add 5 cup of water, curry leaves and salt to taste. Cook it for 3 whistles. Note: Add water using the same cup that was measured for rice and moong dal. Because I used a big pressure cooker, I put them in a curry pan and put the pan into a pressure cooker. You can directly put them into a pressure cooker..
3. After three whistles, the pongal reaches to mushy and creamy stage. Then turn off and let it cool..
4. Heat a pan with ghee and oil. Add pepper corn, cumin, 1 strig curry leaves, 1 pinch of asafoetida, finely chopped ginger and 8 nos of cashew nuts. Saute well until the tempering turns aromatic. Pour this into the cooked pongal..
5. Mix it well..