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PONGAL VARIETIES
M.Prema Surendranath
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Venpongal Milk Pongal

Ingredients: Ingredients:
Rice - 2 cups
Moongdhall - 1 cup Milk - 2 litres
Pepper - 1 tsp Rice - 150 gms
Jeera - 1 tsps (preferably new rice)
Salt - 1 tsps Salt - tsp
Curry leaves - a small bunch
LG asafoetida - one small marble sized Method :
Ghee - 1 tbsps 1. Heat milk in thick copper bottomed vessel.
Ginger - 1' piece
2. Wash & soak the rice in the water for ten minutes.
Cashewnuts - 10 nos
Method : 3. Add to the milk & keep on stirring in medium flames.
1. Soak both the rice & dhall together for ten minutes & wash 4. When the pongal reaches proper consistency , add a
& keep aside. little salt to taste & mix well.
2. Wash the ginger,peel the skin & cut into fine pieces.
5. Keep for few minutes stirring & remove & serve.
3. Break the cashewnuts into four pieces & keep aside.
4. Heat a thick bottom vessel with 2 tsps ghee, add asafoetida, N.B : We can use full fat milk to get richer taste.
pepper, jeera, curry leaves & fry for a while.
5. Then add the rice & dhall mixture & fry for few minutes &
then add water & let it boil. Bahalabath(pongal In Curds)
6. Keep stirring in between until the rice dhall mixture get
cooked well into a smooth consistency. In between we can
add water according to our requirement.
7. When done properly, We can add salt, mix well. Mix this pongal with thick curds, cut green chillies, little
8. Then fry the cashewnut bits & ginger pieces in enough ghee salt & mustard seeds(saut). It will be very tasty. It goes
till golden brown one after other & add to the pongal & well with grated raw mango pickle.
serve hot.
N.B: The same recipe can be tried in pressure cooker also. We
have to cook with the required amount of water & after
that we can change into a big vessel & add enough water &
cook.
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Pongal with methiseeds & Garlic Vegetable - Pongal

Ingredients:
Ingredients: Rice - 400 gms
Raw rice - 250 gms Green gram dhall - 200 gms
Garlic whole - 2 pods Carrot - 1 no
Methi seeds - 2 tsps Beans - 3 nos
Coconut - 1 no Peas - 50 gms
Salt to taste Bellary onion - 1 no
Green chillies - 2 nos
Method : Tomato - 1 no
1. Soak the raw rice in water & wash well. Curry leaves - a few
1 Pepper - 2 tsps
2. Roast the methiseeds till golden brown. Jeera - 2 tsps
3. Peel the garlic separately. Ginger - 1 small piece
Cashew nuts - 25 gms
4. Grate the cocnut & take the milk extract from it using
Asafoetida - tsp
the mixie & keep aside.
Refined oil - 2 tbsps
5. Heat a thick vessel with water, add the rice ,roasted Ghee - 2 tbsps
methi seeds, peeled garlic pearls & boil . Salt to taste
6. When it reaches smooth consistency, add the salt & Method :
switch off the flames. Wash the rice and dhal and pressure cook adding enough water.
In a kadai, add 1tsp ghee and 1tsp oil, next add pepper and
7. Then add the coconut milk , mix well & serve hot. jeera and later finely cut ginger pieces (wash, peel the skin
8. This pongal will very tasty. It helps digestion & helps and chop) Fry well and remove. Add some more oil and ghee,
and fry the finely cut onions till golden brown. Next add the
to cool the body.This has got medicinal value.
grated carrot and fry for sometime. Then add finely chopped
beans and peas and salt and fry for a few more minutes. Add
cashew nuts and fry. In the end, add chopped tomato pieces
and curry leaves. Boil the vegetables for few minutes. Add to
the boiled pongal. mix well, add ghee add more salt if needed
and serve hot with the chutney of your choice.
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Rawa Pongal Cucumber Pongal

Ingredients: Ingredients:
Bhansi rava(medium) - 3 cups Rice - 200 gms
Greengram dhall - 1 cup Cucumber(big size) - 2 nos
Ginger - small piece Grated fresh coconut - 1 cup
Asafoetida - 1 tsp Green chillies - 6 nos
Pepper - 1 tsp Ghee - 50 gms
Jeera - 2 tsps Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
Cashewnuts - 10 nos Red chillies - 2 nos
Ghee - 1 tbsp Urad dhall - 1 tsp
Curry leaves - a few Cashewnuts - 15 nos
Salt to taste Curry leaves - few
Salt to taste
METHOD: Lemon - half
Asafoetida - tsp.
1. Heat a copper bottomed vessel with water & boil the
Method :
green gram dhal till soft.
1. Prepare rice as usual . Grate the cucumber ,
2. Heat a kadai with one tbsp of ghee, add asafoetida,
removing the skin & mix with the salt & ghee &
fry ,add pepper, jeera & curry leaves, fry for a few
keep aside.
minutes & add the rava, roast for few minutes &
keep aside. 2. Heat a kadai with ghee, add mustard seeds, broken
red chillies, cashewnut pieces, grated fresh coconut,
3. Add 9 cups of water to the green gram dhal & salt &
cut green chillies & fry for some time.
when the water starts boiling, add the roasted rawa
& mix well & cook. 3. Add the grated cucumber after removing the water
mix the rice with powdered asafoetida & lemon
4. Wash & cut the ginger into tiny bits. Roast the ginger
juice.
bits & cashew nut bits in a little ghee & add to the
pongal. 4. This pongal can be eaten with any raita.
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Katta Pongal
Ingredients:
Rice - 2 cups
Chennadhall - cup
Red chillies - 8 nos
Asafoetida(powder) - 1 tsp
Tamarind - big lemon size
Salt to taste
Turmeric powder - 1 tsp
Refined oil - 50 gms
Mustard seeds - 2 tsps
Dhania - 1 tbsp
Gingilli oil - 4 tsps
Curry leaves & coriander leaves - 2 bunches
Method :
1. Soak chennadal well. Dry roast dhania well (without oil)
powder &keep aside.
2. Break the chillies into two pieces. Clean the rice & prepare
coarse rawa in a mixie.Sieve the rawa & remove the flour.
3. Soak the tamarind in water & get the thick extract.
4. Heat a kadai with oil , add mustard seeds, add red chilli
pieces & curry leaves, soaked chennadal & turmeric
powder.Fry for few minutes & keep.
5. Boil water in a copper bottomed vsessel, (for 1 cup of
rawa add 2 cups water ) add the seasonings.When the
water boils, add rawa & mix well without lumps. When
the consistency is reached, add the thick tamarind extract
& dhania powder, mix well.
6. Place the pongal in pressure cooker & cook for one or two
whistles. Open, add salt, 4 tsps of gingilly oil, mix well &
add cut coriander leaves .When hot , serve with potato
chips or cucumber - onion salad.