Ven Pongal

Description

• Ethnicity - South Indian
• Type of meal - Party, Lunch, Dinner

Ingredients

• 1 cup: Raw rice
• ½ cup: milk
• 1/3 cup: green gram dal
• 11/2 tsp: black pepper
• 1 tsp: cumin seeds
• 1 tbs: Broken cashew nuts
• 1 tbs: Finely cut ginger (optional)
• A few: curry leaves
• 2 tbs: ghee
• 5 cup: water
• salt to taste

Directions

1. Wash rice and dal and cook them together in five cups of water for 10 minutes.
2. Add salt, curry leaves and ginger with half a cup of milk. Simmer for a minute and remove from fire.
3. Fry cashew nuts, pepper and cumin seeds in ghee.
4. Pour this over the rice-dal mixture.
5. Mix well and serve steaming hot with ghee on top.