Pongal Special

Our pongal celebrations started with offering of ven pongal/sambar and sakara pongal to god.





Ven Pongal:

Ingredients:

Rice - 1 cup
Moong dal -1/4 cup
Cummin seeds - 1 tsp
peppercorn - 1 tsp
curry leaves - 10 leaves
casews - handful
ghee - 1 tbsp

Preparation:

1. Cook the rice and dal together until it mashes.
2. In a pan heat ghee and add curry leaves and the coarsely ground cummin and pepper
3. Fry casews separately in ghee
4. Add the cooked rice to the pan and mix well and decorate it with casews


Sakara Pongal:

Ingredients:

Rice - 1 cup
vellam - 1 medium sized
coconut grated - 2 tbsp
caswes - handful
ghee - 2 tbsp
elachi - 4

Preparation:
1. Fry casews separately in ghee and keep aside
2. Cook rice separate and keep it aside
3. Add very little water to vellam and heat it in low flame
4. Let the vellam completely dissolve in water and keep stirring until it reaches the string consistency
5. Grind the coconut and elachi in the mixie without adding any water so that the coconut gets grated
6. Heat the ghee in a pan and add the cooked rice, the vellam from step 4 and the ground stuff from step 5.
7. Add the casews and turn off the stove when the required consistency is reached