Recipe: Tasty Khara Pongal

Khara Pongal.

You can cook Khara Pongal using 14 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Khara Pongal

1. It's 1 cup of rice.
2. Prepare 1 cup of yellow moong.
3. You need 5 cups of water.
4. It's 2 tsp of salt.
5. It's 2 of green chillies.
6. You need 1 of small onion chopped.
7. It's of For tempering.
8. You need 3 tbsp of desi ghee.
9. Prepare 8-10 of cashews.
10. It's 1/4 cup of curry leaves.
11. It's 1/4 tsp of hing(asafoetida).
12. You need 1 tbsp of crushed ginger.
13. You need 1 tbsp of whole peppercorns.
14. You need 1 tsp of cumin seeds.

Khara Pongal step by step

1. Roast the rice and moong together till they leave a nice aroma. Now soak in water and set aside for 30 minutes. Drain out this water and add another fresh 5 cups of water. Add salt, green chillies and chopped onion. Cook for 1 whistle and switch off the flame. Let the steam escape on it's own. Open the lid and give the rice a good mix..
2. Heat ghee in a pan. Add the cashews and fry till golden. Remove the cashews and add to the rice. In the same ghee add the cumin seeds, hing, peppercorns, crushed ginger and the curry leaves. Let them splutter well and the ginger should turn a bit crisp. Pour over the rice and mix well. Enjoy hot!.