How To Make Ven Pongal At Home + Internet's Favourite Recipe

Ingredients

• Raw rice -1cup
• Moong dhal-½cup
• Water_4 ½ cup water
• Pinch of cumin
• Pinch of asafoetida powder
• Grated ginger -½ inch
• Salt to taste

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For Tempering

• Oil-½ cup( for vanaspati I replace it with oil) can add ghee
• Peppercorn-1tsp
• Cumin-1tsp
• Cashewnuts-10 to 15 nos
• Ginger chop-½inch
• Curry leaves -1sprig
• Asafoetida powder -½tsp

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Instruction

• Add all the ingredients together into a pressure cooker - raw rice, moong dhal, water, pinch of cumin, pinch of asafoetida powder, grated ginger, salt to taste.

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• Turn off the pressure cooker after 4 to 5 whistles.

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• For tempering, after heating the oil, or ghee add all the spices/ingredients one after another.

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• Once the tempering stops sputtering, take the tadka and mix it well with the rice.

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Chef Dinu's Ven Pongal recipe went viral on Instagram garnering over 4 million views. He suggests serving the Ven Pongal "with coconut chutney hot medhuvadai and tiffin sambar or kathirikkai gothsu”.

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