Pongal

One of my favourite dish.Tried different recipes, got different tastes.After many attempts got the taste which i wanted.. Here is the recipe for the same Ingredients:

• Rice : 1 cup


• Moong Dal : 1 cup


• Water : 5 cups


• Salt: as needed


• Hing : a pinch


• Turmeric : 1/2 t sp


• Ghee : 2tb sp


• Cumin seeds : 1 t sp


• Pepper cons: 1 t sp


• Urad Dal : 1 t sp


• Green Chilies : 3


• Curry leaves : 2 strings


• Kaju : 10

Procedure:

• Wash rice and moong dal. Add 5 cups of water, salt, chopped ginger, hing, turmeric ,rice, moong dal in pressure cooker and cook for 3 visils.


• In a kadai, add ghee for tempering.Once ghee is hot, add urad Dal, cumin seeds, pepper cons, kaju, hing,chopped chilies, curry leaves.


• Add this tempering cooked rice,moong dal mixture and mix well.

Serve with allam chutney or sambar.

Note:

• Add water as per your interest.If you want pongal to be in mushy texture add 5 cups or if you want it to be like normal rice just add double the quantity of rice and dal.


• Adjust chilies and salt as per your taste.

Vada bajji

Ingredients:

• Channa Dal : 2 cups
• Salt
• Bajji Mirchi : 10 nos
• Green Chilies : 3
• Oil
• Ginger : 2 inches

Procedure:

• Soak Channa Dal for 4 hrs.Grind green chilies, ginger,Channa Dal as we grind for Channa dal vada.
• Now take bajji mirchi and cut vertically.With a fork take off all the seeds inside the chili.This reduced spice level of chili.
• Heat Oil. Take a plastic sheet, and place one bajji mirchi.Cover mirchi with vada batter all sides.In the same manner cover all mirchi.
• Add these covered mirchi in hot oil and fry them till they turn to golden yellow color.

Serve hot with any chutney or Tomato Ketchup.