South Indian Breakfast - Ven Pongal & Kadamba Sambhar
South Indian Breakfast - Ven Pongal & Kadamba Sambhar

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Ven Pongal is South India's equivalent of the North Indian khichdi. Cooked rice and moong dal are flavoured with ginger, crushed peppercorns and cumin seeds, and garnished with ghee-roasted cashew nuts and curry leaves. Ven Pongal has a unique flavour and consistency, which are rich yet soothing.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have south indian breakfast - ven pongal & kadamba sambhar using 26 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make South Indian Breakfast - Ven Pongal & Kadamba Sambhar:
  1. Take For Pongal :
  2. Get 1/2 Cup Raw Rice
  3. Make ready 1/4 cup Moong Dhal/Paasi Parupu
  4. Prepare 1 tsp Ginger chopped
  5. Get 1 pinch Hing/Asafoetida
  6. Prepare 1 tsp Black Pepper Corns
  7. Prepare 1 tsp pepper powder
  8. Get 2 tbsp ghee
  9. Get 2 tsp jeera/cumin seeds
  10. Prepare 1/3 cup Milk
  11. Prepare as needed Few Cashew Nuts
  12. Make ready as needed Curry Leaves Little
  13. Make ready to taste Salt as per taste
  14. Make ready For Kadamba Sambhar:
  15. Make ready 2 tsp Oil
  16. Prepare 1 tsp Methi /Fenugreek seeds
  17. Get as needed Mixed Veggies(Carrot,Beans,Peas,Sweet Potato,Potato) You can add veggies of your choice
  18. Get as needed Small Ball of Tamarind (Extract Paste)
  19. Get 2 tsp Sambhar Powder
  20. Prepare 1 tsp Coriander Powder
  21. Make ready 1/3 cup Toor Dhal + 2tbsp Moong Dhal with little Turmeric Powder (Pressure cook it for 3 whistles)
  22. Get To Temper:
  23. Take 1 tsp Mustard Seeds
  24. Prepare 1/2 tsp Urad Dhal
  25. Get as needed Curry Leaves Few
  26. Prepare to taste Salt

Traditionally it is prepared during the harvest festival "PONGAL". Ven Pongal (also called as Khara Pongal) is a traditional South Indian breakfast dish. Rice and Dals are cooked together and further tempered by ghee, pepper, cumin, hing and curry leaves. It is very easy and quick to prepare.

Steps to make South Indian Breakfast - Ven Pongal & Kadamba Sambhar:
  1. For Pongal: Dry Roast raw rice and moong dhal in a pressure cooker.
  2. Keep that aside.Add 1 tbsp ghee,ginger and hing.Saute for a min.
  3. Add 3 cups of water,required salt and pressure cook them for 3 or 4 whistles.
  4. Once cooker is released mash the cooked rice and dhal well (Add water if it is too dry) and boil for sometime.
  5. In the end before tempering add milk and mix well and boil for a min. (This gives pongal a creamy texture and an awesome taste).
  6. Add the black pepper powder.
  7. Take a tempering pan and add 1 or 2 tbsp of ghee. Once it is hot add the jeera,black pepper corns,curry leaves and cashew nuts. Saute well.
  8. Add the tempering to the pongal and serve hot with Sambhar and Chutney.
  9. Kadamba Sambhar: In a kadai add little oil. Once it heats up add little mustard seeds. Once it splutters add the methi seeds and saute.
  10. Add the mixed veggies and saute them for a min.
  11. Add the Sambhar Powder,Coriander Powder and salt and mix it well.
  12. Extract the tamarind and add them to the sambhar and add water.
  13. Boil them till the veggies get cooked well.
  14. Mash the toor dhal+moong dhal and add them by adjusting water if required.
  15. Boil till you get the froth and temper with Mustard seeds,Urad Dhal and Curry leaves.

The flavour of ghee with pepper is the unique taste of Pongal. Ven Pongal is a hearty breakfast from Southern India that is sure to get your day started right. Ven Pongal is a dish which is an essential of any traditional South Indian breakfast. Made with rice, lentils and tempered primarily with black pepper. Ven Pongal is a savoury South Indian Rice and Lentil dish and is known by many names such as Khara Pongal or Ghee Pongal.

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