Pongal

PONGAL

Ingredients:

• Rice:1 cup
• Green gram(moong dal):1/4 cup.
• pepper:1tsp.
• Jeera:1 tsp.
• Ghee:1/4 cup.
• Bay leaves:5
• cashew: 10
• water:6 cups.
• onion:1 medium sized.
• salt:adjust to taste.

Procedure:

• Wash rice and green gram .
• cut the onion into long and thin pieces
• Grind pepper roughly.
• Heat ghee in a pressure cooker and add ground pepper and then jeera,bay leaves,cashew nuts,onion.
• Fry until the cashew turns into light golden brown.
• Now add green gram,rice and fry for two minutes.
• Now add water and salt and then pressure cook.
• Now the pongal is ready.
• coconut chutney or sambar is the good combination of pongal.