Easiest Way to Prepare Yummy Ven Pongal

Ven Pongal.

You can have Ven Pongal using 12 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Ven Pongal

1. Prepare 1 cup of rice.
2. Prepare 1/4 cup of moong dal.
3. You need 2 1/2 cup of water.
4. You need For of Tempering:-.
5. It's 2 tbsp of Ghee.
6. You need 8-10 of cashew nuts.
7. Prepare 1/2 tsp of Cumin seeds.
8. You need 1/2 tsp of crushed pepper corns.
9. You need 1 pinch of hing.
10. Prepare 2 of green chillies slit.
11. It's 1 sprig of Curry leaves.
12. It's 1 inch of ginger grated.

Ven Pongal instructions

1. Dry roast dal on a low to medium flame till it begins to smell nice and aromat..
2. Add rice and the roasted dal to a pot or cooker..
3. Wash it at least three times. Drain the water completely..
4. Pour water, add salt and cook the rice and dal till it gets a soft texture..
5. For pressure cooking if cooking directly in the pressure than cook for 2 whistles on a medium flame..
6. When the pressure release naturally open the lid..
7. Tempering:- Heat a pan with ghee fry cashews till golden..
8. Add cumins and crushed pepper..
9. Allow them to splutter then add chilli, ginger and turmeric saute well until the tempering turns aromatic..
10. Then add hing, curry leaves pour this into the cooked pongal..
11. Mix and simmer for 2 minutes. Turn the stove off..
12. Serve ven pongal with coconut chutney or sambhar..