Recipe: Perfect Ven Pongal

Ven Pongal.

You can cook Ven Pongal using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Ven Pongal

1. Prepare 3/4 cup of Raw rice / pacha arisi -.
2. Prepare 1/4 cup of Moong dal / paasi paruppu -.
3. You need 4 cups of Water -.
4. It's to taste of Salt -.
5. You need 6   to 8 tbsps of Ghee -.
6. You need 15   to 20 nos of Cashew nut -.
7. Prepare of To temper.
8. It's 2 tsps of Peppercorn / milagu -.
9. You need 2 tsps of Jeera -.
10. It's 8 to 10 nos of Curry leaves -.
11. It's 1/2 tsp of Ginger crushed - (optional).
12. You need 1 pinch of perungayam Asofoetida  / powder -  (optional).

Ven Pongal instructions

1. Wash raw rice and moong dal together in a vessel and drain water completely..
2. In a pressure cooker, add the raw rice and moong dal with 4 cups of water and cook for 5 to 6 whistles. This makes the rice and dal mixture very soft..
3. Allow it to cool for 10 minutes..
4. Add ghee in a kadai and fry the cashew nuts to golden brown and remove. Keep aside, to add at the last to garnish.
5. In the remaining ghee, add peppercorns, jeera, curry leaves..
6. Adding asofoetida and crushed ginger is optional at this stage..
7. Add the cooked raw rice and moong dal mixture.
8. Add salt required. You can add extra ghee to glaze the whole mixture..
9. Garnish with fried cashew nuts and serve..