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.