Recipe: Delicious Ven Pongal

Ven Pongal.

You can cook Ven Pongal using 13 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Ven Pongal

1. It's 1/2 cup of rice.
2. Prepare 1/2 cup of moong dal, lightly dry roasted (split green gram).
3. Prepare 3 tbsp. of oil.
4. You need leaves of few curry.
5. It's 2 of whole dry red chilies, broken.
6. You need 1/2 tsp. of mustard seeds.
7. Prepare 1 tsp. of ginger, grated.
8. Prepare 1/2 tsp. of whole peppercorns.
9. It's 1 tsp. of urad dal (split black gram).
10. Prepare 10-15 of cashew nuts.
11. It's to taste of salt.
12. Prepare 2-3 tbsp. of ghee.
13. You need of few cashew nuts to garnish.

Ven Pongal step by step

1. Soaked the rice and dal, preferably overnight and then pressure cook with 3 cups water and salt for 7-8 minutes on low flame after the first whistle. It should be soft and mushy..
2. Heat oil in a pan and temper with the mustard seeds and whole dry red chilies. After it stops spluttering, add the urad dal, peppercorns, ginger, curry leaves and cashew nuts and fry for a few seconds till the urad dal and cashew nuts change colour..
3. Pour it over the boiled rice-dal mix along with salt and mix well. While serving, add ghee and mix. Serve, garnished with cashew nuts along with coconut chutney and sambar or simply with pickle..