Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, brown rice pongal. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Brown Rice Pongal: Give a healthy spin to the traditional Pongal recipe by using brown rice instead of white rice. Pongal is made with white rice (preferably ponni raw rice or even sona masuri). Savory Brown Rice Pongal is a delicious vegetarian South Indian dish made primarily from rice and lentils.
Brown Rice Pongal is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Brown Rice Pongal is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have brown rice pongal using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Brown Rice Pongal:
- Get 3/4 cup Basmati brown rice
- Get 1/3 cup split green gram (moong dal)
- Prepare to taste salt
- Get 3 & 1/4 cups water
- Get 2 tbsp. oil
- Make ready 1/2 tsp. mustard seeds
- Make ready 1-2 dry red chilies, broken
- Get 1-2 sprigs curry leaves
- Prepare 1 tsp. grated ginger
- Get 1/2 tsp. whole peppercorns
- Prepare 1 tsp. urad dal (split black gram)
- Get 1 tbsp. chana dal (Bengal gram)
- Get 1/4 tsp. asafoetida
- Make ready 1/2 cup cashew nuts
- Take 2 tbsp. ghee
You can substitute rice with brown rice, millets, steel cut oats or quinoa. you will have to soak them. Here's my family's recipe for Chakkara Pongal, which I have made a tad healthier using brown / semi polished rice from Phalada Agro and I am happy to use their dark and very flavourful organic jaggery. This pepper cumin rice is not only easy to make but has lot of medicinal properties. Cumin and pepper has antioxidant and antibacterial properties and is used to cure common cold, mild digestive problems.
Instructions to make Brown Rice Pongal:
- Wash the rice and dal 2-3 times and then soak in sufficient water preferably overnight. Drain and keep aside for 10 minutes.
- Heat 1 tbsp. ghee in a pan and saute the drained rice and dal for 2 minutes. Now add water and salt and pressure cook for 5-6 whistles on a low flame. Let it cool down before you open the lid.
- Heat the oil in a pan and temper with dry red chilies and mustard seeds. After it stops spluttering, add the curry leaves. urad dal, chana dal, peppercorns, ginger, asafoetida and the cashew nuts. Saute for a few seconds and then switch off the flame.
- Pour this tempering over the prepared pongal along with ghee. Serve with coconut chutney.
As Pongal festival (Uzhavar Thirunaal) is nearing I wanted to post healthy (millet) pongal recipes. This varagu pongal is very easy to prepare, tastes delicious and also very healthy. Ven Pongal recipe with step by step pics - Ven Pongal is a delicious South Indian breakfast made with rice and yellow moong lentils. This porridge like savory dish is laced with cumin, asafoetida and black. sakkarai pongal recipe pongal made with rice,moong dal and jaggery.easy temple style sweet pongal recipe.how to I used paagu velam to get the dark brown color. You can use normal jaggery too.
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