Ingredients for the slurry:
Rice -
1 cup
Moong Dal / Green Gram / Pesara papu - ¾
cup
Water - 3 ¾ cup
Turmeric powder / pasupu - 1 tea spoon
Salt to taste
Cook all the above ingredients in a pressure cooker for 4-5
whistles to get the slurry for our pongali.
Now, you can choose to mash the mixture or just leave it as
it is before you add the seasoning.
Ingredients for the seasoning:
Ghee - 2 tablespoon
Red chilly / endu mirapakayalu - 3-4
Pepper corns - 11-12
Curry leaves / karivepaku - 2-3 twigs of leaves
Jeera / cumin / jeelakarra - 2 tea spoons
Ginger / allam - about 1 table spoon ( peeled and
chopped )
Green chillies - 1-2 finely chopped
Kaaju / Cashew / jeedi pappu ( optional )
Heat the ghee and add all the above spices and fry them for
about 1 minute or till they are done.
Once it is done , pour this over the slurry and mix it
properly and there we have, our pongali J
Serve it hot.
It is very eeeeasy, ain’t it !!. Pongali is also a very
healthy dish as the main ingredient here is green gram.
Coming to the making of Raita,
Ingredients:
chopped onion
chopped green
chillies
grated carrot
chopped cucumber
chopped tomato
chopped cilantro
Salt to taste
Curd
Just mix all the above ingredients to get the raita.
Raita need not be served with Pongali. It is an optional
thing, but better go for it as it adds to the taste.
That’s it for today and yeah.... happy pongal J
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