Ven Pongal with Green Moong Sprouts
Your delicious comfort food, made more nutritious! Make Venpongal with sprouts, it is not just more healthy but also absolutely delicious!
Servings 2
Ingredients
To pressure cook
- ¾ cup rice short grained rice works best. usually, raw rice is used. i have used jeeraga samba.
- 2 tbsp moong dal
- 1 cup green moong sprouts
- 1 tbsp grated ginger
- ½ tsp hing
- 1 tsp salt
- ½ tsp ground pepper
- ½ tsp ground cumin
- 3 cups water
For Tadka
- 2 tbsp ghee+oil
- 2-3 tbsp cashews
- 1 tsp pepper
- 1 tsp cumin
- few curry leaves
- about half a cup of hot water to adjust consistency of pongal
Instructions
- To a pressure cooker or vessel ( if using an inner vessel to pressure cook), add all the ingredients listed under 'To pressure cook'
- To make in a Pressure Cooker - Cook for 4-5 whistles and let pressure fully settle.
- To make in an Instant Pot - Pressure cook mode for 8 minutes. Let pressure release naturally.`
- To a pan, add ghee+oil and make a tadka with cashews, pepper, cumin, curry leaves.
- Add the tadka to the cooked pongal and mix well. Add a little water if necessary for consistency.
- Serve pongal with a chutney, sambar or gotsu.
Notes
- I prefer using a mix of ghee and oil for pongal ( 75% ghee, 25% oil) so that the pongal remains in the right consistency after a few hours.
- Adding moong dal helps with a beautiful aroma. Sprouts can sometimes smell a little off and this helps to mask it.