White Pongal (ven pongal)

White pongal (ven pongal) is a simple dish for a morning break-fast. It takes very less time for preparation.

Ingredients:

• raw rice (pachai arisi) 2.5 cup
  
• green gram dhal (siru paruppu) 1 cup
  
• salt as required
  
• black pepper 1 table-spoon
  
• cumin (jeerakam) 1 table-spoon
  
• cashew nuts (mundhiri paruppu) as required
  

Method:

Take the 2.5 cup of raw rice (pachai arisi) and 1 cup of green gram dhal (siru paruppu) in a rice-cooker. Add 5 cups of water. Add salt (half table-spoon) as required. Cook for two whistles of rice-cooker.

Take some black pepper (1 table-spoon), some cumin (jeerakam) (1 table-spoon) and some cashew nuts (mundhiri paruppu). Fry them in a pan with 1 or 2 table-spoon of ghee.

Mix the fried items into the White pongal (ven pongal) that is in rice-cooker.

White pongal (ven pongal) is ready. White pongal (ven pongal) shall be served with sambhar and coconut chutney.

Kick start

One fine morning I was browsing through the supplements of a daily newspaper. There was an article on recipe for fish curry. I made up my mind to try it a day. And I thought to preserve the article in some form. While thinking so, there stood up a question in my mind "have you preserved the recipes atleast you know".

Yes, I know cooking. I have had my hands on it. Though my profession is in software I have a passion for cooking. I like cooking my food. Cooking is great art. You should have the passion for it unless you can't have a hand on it.

I get the recipes from my mother whom I consider a great cook. Until I had my hands in cooking, I didn't realize what a great work she is doing.

So now I have to preserve the recipes that I learnt, tried and succeeded. Then came the idea of maintaining a blog for the recipes I know. A blog would benefit both myself and the people referring this blog.