Rice recipe
Rice Recipe
Find delicious rice recipe for Pongal.
PREPARATION TIME : 10 minutes
COOKING TIME : 25-30 minutes
SERVINGS : 4
INGREDIENTS:
- Raw Rice -300 gms
- Moong Dal (yellow or green) 100 gms
- Hing powder -Half tsp
- Cummin Seeds- one or two tsp
- Black pepper- 10 to 12
- Cashew nuts-10 no
- Ginger- 1 inch piece
- Turmeric powder- half tsp (optional, if you like the colour)
- Clarified Butter or liquified Ghee- four tbsp
- Curry Leaves- 10 no (optional)
- Salt- to taste
METHOD:
- Heat Kadai. Dry roast rice and moong dal till they turn hot to touch.
- Transfer the rice and dal to a container and wash three times in fresh water.
- Add water four times the quantity of rice and dal and add salt.
- Pressure cook for four whistles.
- In a kadai dry roast cummin seeds and pepper for 2 minutes and powder coarsely.
- Chop the ginger finely and keep aside.
- Add one table spoon of ghee in the kadai and roast the cashew nuts (halved) till they turn light brown.
- Add ginger, powdered cummin seeds, hing powder, turmeric powder and curry leaves and roast for a minute.
- Take out the cooked rice and dal mix and mash well using a masher.
- Add all the prepared ingredients and mix well with remaining ghee.
- Rice Pongal is ready and can be served with coconut chutney.
