Ingredients
1. Raw rice: quantity – 1 big tumbler
2. moong dhal (green gram): 1 ladle
3. Pepper: 1/2 spoon
4. Jeeragam/fenugreek: 1/2 spoon
5. Ginger: 1 piece
6. Cashew nut: 4 nos.
7. Ghee: 1 ladle
8. Salt: 1/2 spoon
9. asafoetida powder (little)
Preparation Method:
1. Mix rice, (necessary amount) salt and dal. Add 1 and 1/2 tumbler (the same tumbler with which you had measured rice) of water to it and keep in cooker.2. Put ghee in frying pan. Add pepper, cashew nut (add cashew nut at the last when you are frying), asafoetida powder & jeeragam/fenugreek to it & fry it for sometime. Add this to the rice mixture that was cooked in cooker. And there you are ready to gulp the tasty pongal!
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