Milagu pongal

Ingredients:

• Raw rice - 1 cup
• Green gram - 1/3rd cup
• Asafoetida - a pinch
• Ginger - 1 tbs
• Pepper - 1 stbs
• Cumin seeds - 1 tbs
• Cashew nuts – as your requirement
• Curry leaves - small quantity
• Ghee - 2 tbs
• Butter - 1 tbs
• Salt to taste

Method:

1. Wash and keep rice and green gram (Dhal) and pour 6 cups of water, add asafoetida,salt and ginger to it in a pressure cooker. Let it boil for 20 minutes.
2. Then add ghee to a pan and fry pepper, cumin seeds, cashew nuts and curry leaves and add this to boiled rice and dhal. Now add butter to the content. Mix it well.
3. Now pongal is ready to serve…

Rava Pongal

Ingredients
» Rava 1 cup 
» Moong Dal 1/2 cup 
» Cashew Nuts 10 no
» Ghee 4 tbs 
» Curry Leaves 
» Chopped Ginger 1 tsp 
» Black peppercorn 1 tsp 
» Cumin Seeds 1 tsp 
» Salt to taste 

Method
1. Fry the rava without any oil till raw smell goes off. 
2. Fry the black pepper and cumin seeds in a teaspoon of ghee and make a coarse powder of them. 
3. Fry the cashewnuts, curryleaves, chopped ginger and keep aside. 
4. Pressure cook the moong dal with 1 cup of water. 
5. After the pressure subsides transfer the cooked dal to a heavy bottomed pan and add a cup of water. 
6. Add the required salt. 
7. Allow this to boil well. 
8. Add the fried rava to the above boiling (cooked) moong dhal in small measures and stir continuously till the rava is cooked completely. 
9. While the rava is being cooked add the ghee little by little. 
10. Finally, add the coarsely powdered pepper and jeera and the fried cashew nuts, curry leaves and chopped ginger. 
11. This goes well with coconut chutney.