Recipe: Perfect Venn Pongal

Venn Pongal.

You can cook Venn Pongal using 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Venn Pongal

1. Prepare 1 cup of Raw rice.
2. You need 1 cup of Moong dal.
3. You need 5 cups of water.
4. You need 1 cup of Milk.
5. Prepare 1/2 tsp of Black peppercorn.
6. Prepare 1 tsp of Black pepper powder.
7. It's 2 tsps of Cumin.
8. You need 1 tbsp of ginger Shredded.
9. It's of curry leaves.
10. It's 2 tbsps of Ghee butter / clarified.
11. Prepare 2 tbsps of oil.
12. You need of salt.
13. It's 3 tbsps of Cashew.
14. It's pinch of asafoetida a.

Venn Pongal step by step

1. Take a kadaai and keep it on high heat. Heat up the kadaai to the max and switch off the stove. Add the moong dal to this and dry roast until you get a nice aroma, do not brown the dal..
2. Take a vessel that fits into your pressure cooker, add the roasted moong dal and raw rice pour 5 cups of water and 1 cup of milk, use the same cup that you used to measure the rice and the dal..
3. Adding milk for cooking the rice and dal gives a creamy texture and also makes the pongal rich in taste..
4. Also add asafoetida to this and 1/2 tsp whole black peppercorns. Pressure cook this up to 5 whistles. Switch off the heat let the pressure release on its own..
5. Take the same kadaai you used to roast moong dal, keep it on medium high heat, add ghee and oil, add 1 tsp of cumin, black pepper powder, shredded ginger, curry leaves and broken cashews (make sure the cashews are not too finely broken they are to be in bite sizes)..
6. Once the cumin splutters and cashews turn brown add the cooked rice and dal, and stir immediately, add little water and salt and stir again. Mix them evenly and serve..