Sunday, December 17, 2017

# OPOS Venpongal

Margazhi month  .. What a divine month!! Lord Krishna  said , Maadhangalil naan margazhi!! Even scientist   confirmed  in  this  month   we have  more ozone layers , our ancesters  found this and  woke early morning  draw  big  kolam/rangoli on the  enterance  and in temples  also  we can see  poojas  even from  early morning , music  season in december .Also we can get hot hot divine venpongal as prasadam from the  temple , what  a taste !!
Ingredients :
Raw rice  -  1  cup
Moong dal - 1/3  cup
 Jeeragam - 2 tsp
Milagu  - 2 tsp
 Salt   - to taste
Little  hing
 Curry leaves   for tadka
Cashew  - 10
Ginger - 1/2 inch ( cut  into very small pieces)
Chilli - 2 ( optional)
Method :
              In a  kadai dry roast ( just to get warm-- kai porukkum  soodu - for flavour) rice and dal. In a  3 lt  cooker  add the  rice and dal mix  add   required water ( usually I add   raw+dal mix  : water  = 1 : 4 )
Then only we get good mashy texture  pongal. CookPongal   for   4  whistle ,  allow the steam to settle   ,Open the lid and  salt, raw  ginger pieces  , then in kadai add ghee  , add milagu, jeeragam , curry leaves  allow to splutter and   roast cashews  ,pour  them on the pongal , mix and  mash  thoroughly. Now    we have    tasty aroma filled  venpongal ready .

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