KATTE PONGALI/VEN PONGAL RECIPE

Hi..... Hope you all enjoyed your pongal holidays. We too went to our village and had a great time with our relatives. So couldn't post recipes from past 3 days and here I'm with full energy with many New recipes.

       Today I'm going to share a healthy,easy, quick and tasty traditional pongal recipe. Here in Andhra we call pongali or katte pongali and in Tamil they call ven pongal. Whatever we call this dish, taste and recipe remains the same. It is very quick and tasty dish which I often prepare for breakfast. It tastes so delicious and tasty with a spoon of melted ghee. One can easily prepare this dish with easily available ingredients.

I hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turned out for you.

Ingredients :

Regular rice : 200 grams

Moong dal/pesara pappu/green gram : 200grams

Milk : 250 ml

salt to taste

For tempering :

Ghee : 3 table spoons

Cashew nuts : 10 to 15

Mustard seeds/aavaalu : 1 tea spoon

Cumin seeds/jeera/jeelakara : 1 table spoon

Black pepper corns/miriyaalu : 1 table spoon

Dried red chillies or green chillies : 2

Curry leaves : 4 to 5 strings

Chopped medium onion : 1

Method :

First take rice and moong dal in a bowl wash and cook by adding more water.

Cook until rice and dal becomes soft and mushy.

Now remove from fire and add milk and salt, mix it well. Add some water if your mixture is dry.

Now for tempering heat ghee in a pan add Cashew nuts, saute until they changes into golden color and take into a plate.  then add mustard seeds let them crackle, then add all ingredients one by one.

Now saute until onions changes into golden color. 

Now add cooked rice and dal mixture saute well.

Cover the lid and cook on low flame for 2 minutes and remove from fire.

Finally sprinkle cashew nuts and serve hot with sambar or any pickle.

Take dal and rice in a bowl

Wash it well

Take into a heavy bottom pan and add water

Cook until rice and dal becomes soft and mushy

Now pour milk (add some water if your mixture is dry)

Mix it well

Now heat ghee in a pan add cashew nuts

Saute until they changes into golden color and take into a plate

In same pan add mustard seeds let them crackle

Add cumin seeds

Add pepper corns

Add chillies

Add onions

Add curry leaves

Saute until onions changes into golden color

Now add rice and dal mixture

Mix it ell and cook on low flame for couple of minutes

Finally sprinkle fried cashew nuts and serve hot

Yummy pongal Is ready!!!!!