Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, pongal. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Pongal (பொங்கல், / ˈθaɪˈpoʊŋʌl /, also spelled Poṅkal) is a multi-day Tamil harvest festival of South India, particularly in the Tamil community. Pongal or huggi is a popular South Indian rice dish. In Tamil "pongal" means "bubbling up". In Telugu and Kannada, pongali is a dish of rice mixed with boiled milk and sugar.
Pongal is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Pongal is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pongal using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Pongal:
- Prepare 1 Cup rice
- Get 3/4 Cup bombay Mogar
- Take 1 tsp Ginger chopped
- Get 1 tsp Jeera
- Make ready 1 tsp Kali mirch
- Make ready as needed Curry leaves
- Get 15 pieces Cashews
- Take 4 piece Red chilli dry
- Make ready 1/2 cup Ghee
- Make ready 1/2 tsp Hing
- Prepare to taste Salt
This four days long festival of Tamil Nadu is celebrated for showing gratitude to nature. Pongal is a popular harvest festival of Tamil Nadu that marks the first day of the sun's return journey to the northern hemisphere, widely known as Makar Sankranti in India. The festival is celebrated with much enthusiasm, quite like Thanksgiving in America. It marks the auspicious beginning of Uttarayan, which is the beginning of the sun's journey northwards.
Instructions to make Pongal:
- Soak the rice and mogar for 25 min.
- In a pressure cooker put rice and mogar and add ginger,Jeera 1 tsp and add hing,salt and add 6 cups water and 4 whistles in the pressure cooker
- In a pan put ghee and heat and add jeera and hing, curry leaves and cashews, and kalimirchi, and red chilli Mirchi dry and add the tadka in the prepared Pongal in them.
- Pongal is ready and Granish with cashews..
- Serve with sambhar and coconut chutney….
The festival is celebrated with much enthusiasm, quite like Thanksgiving in America. It marks the auspicious beginning of Uttarayan, which is the beginning of the sun's journey northwards. Pongal is a popular South Indian Rice and Lentil dish. The Savory Pongal is known as Ven Pongal, Khara Pongal or Ghee Pongal. The sweet pongal is known as Sakkarai Pongal and you can find an incredibly delicious recipe for it in The Essential Indian Instant Pot Cookbook.
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