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I am posting in this blog ,recipes which my 87 years old mother used in her cooking. Some of these are her own, some from her friends,some hand me downs from her elders etc etc. So the variety is awesome and as an admirer of his grandma's cooking, my son Arvind created this blog so that my mother's age old recipes can be shared with one and all .I have also posted some of my "tried and tested" recipes, especially the Non-vegetarian ones.I thought a purely vegetarian recipes' blog can be made more interesting with some non-veg recipes thrown inbetween.
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Saturday, December 10, 2022

Pongal /Rice and Dal dish


Ingredients:
Broken rice : 1 cup
Moong Dal : 1 cup
Pepper coarsely crushed : 1 Tbsp
Salt : 2 tsp
Green chillies : 4 chopped fine
Fresh ginger scraped and cut fine : 1 inch
For seasoning:
Jeera (cumin seeds) : 2 Tbsp
Fresh Ghee : 1/2 cup
cashew-nuts : 10 numbers
Curry leaves (Karibeva) : 10 to 15
Method:
Wash and soak rice and dal in a vessel 6 cups of water for 15 minutes. To this add chopped ginger and green chillies. Add half of pepper and 1 tsp of jeera and salt and mix well. Keep the vessel covered in a cooker and cook for three whistles or 10 minutes on sim fire.When done and the cooker is cooled down remove the vessel out and stir the cooked contents. Add hot water if necessary and adjust salt if necessary.The cooked dal and rice should be more on fluid side as it absorbs the water and becomes tough when cool.The spoon should move freely when mixing. Finally season with ghee, jeera,pepper,cashewnuts and karbev leaves and serve hot with tomato chutney or onion chutney.