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Pongal Recipe, How To Make Pongal Recipe

Name: Pongal
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 2

Pongal is a traditional South-Indian rice dish, simple and easiest breakfast recipe made with rice and moong dal.

About Recipe

How to make Pongal

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Prep time
10 mins

Cook time
20 mins

Total time
30 mins

Author : Vahchef
Main Ingredient : Rice

Servings : 2 persons
Published date : November 16, 2016

Ingredients used in Pongal
• Grated ginger - 1 tea spoon.
• Cashewnuts - 7 number.
• Cumin seeds - 1 tea spoon.
• Pepper corns - 1/2 tea spoon.
• Moong dal - 1/2 tea spoon.
• Rice - 1 cup.
• Ghee - 4 tablespoon.
• Salt - to taste.
Method:
Grind pepper corns to coarse powder and keep aside. Dry roast rice and dal slightly then clean it. Roast cashewnuts in 1 teaspoon of ghee and keep aside. In a pressure cooker, add rice, dal, cumin seeds, hing, pepper powder along with 4 tablespoons of ghee and water(as required) and let it cook with closed lid till 4-5 whistles. At last, add fried cashewnuts to garnish and serve it hot.