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Ven Pongal


Ingredients:
Raw rice - 2 cups
Green gram dhal - Half cup
2" piece of fresh ginger
one teaspoon jeera
one teaspoon pepper
Four tablespoon ghee
one spring of curry leaves
A pinch of asafotida

Method:

Wash the rice and dhal and add six cups water. Add grated ginger, salt and asafotida and pressure cook for three whistles. In a kadai, put four tablespoon ghee. When it is hot add cashew nuts, pepper and jeera crushed slightly, curry leaves and fry for a while. Add this to the cooked rice. Mix well.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

It came really nice. Thanks for the recipe

Kamala said...

Thank you for visiting my site and taking time to post your comment.

Anonymous said...

Dear Ms Kamala,

Good day! i am new to this blog. I wish to try your idli recipe but I do not know what is parboiled rice. Can you please explain or do you have other alternative other than the parboiled rice.

Kamala said...

Parboiled rice is called in Tamil as "Puzhungal Arisi". This rice is also sold as "Idli Rice" in stores. I am not sure where you live. If you are in US, you will get this rice in Indian Stores.

sampada said...

looks cool...the picture looks so inviting..in US idli rice will be available in indian stores or i have great resource where you can find all the indian ingredients. www.myethnicworld.com as i am a regular client of this site.