Ven Pongal

Ingredients :

• Raw rice - 1 cup
• Green gram dal - ¹/₃ cup
• Ghee - 2 tbs
• Black pepper - 1¹/₂ tsp
• Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
• Salt - as required
• Water - 5 cups
• Broken cashew nuts - 1 tbs
• Finely cut ginger- 1 tbs (optional)
• Curry leaves - few
• Milk - ¹/₂cup

Method of Preparation:

Wash rice and dal and cook them together in five cups of water for 10 minutes. Add salt, curry leaves and ginger with half a cup of milk. Simmer for a minute and remove from fire.

Fry cashew nuts, pepper and cumin seeds in ghee. Pour this over the rice- dal mixture, mix well and serve steaming hot with ghee on top.