{"id":96,"date":"2009-10-21T14:08:20","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T22:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thezeal.com\/cooking\/?p=96"},"modified":"2009-10-21T14:08:20","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T22:08:20","slug":"ven-pongal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaizen.ist\/cooking\/ven-pongal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ven Pongal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Moong Dal &#8211; 3\/4 cup<\/li>\n<li>Rice &#8211; 1 1\/4 cups<\/li>\n<li>Asafoetida &#8211; a pinch<\/li>\n<li>Ginger &#8211; 1\/4 inch finely chopped<\/li>\n<li>Green Chillies &#8211; 2 slit halfway<\/li>\n<li>Cashews &#8211; 1 tbsp<\/li>\n<li>Whole black pepper &#8211; 1 tsp<\/li>\n<li>Cumin seeds &#8211; 1 tsp<\/li>\n<li>Curry Leaves &#8211; 7<\/li>\n<li>Salt &#8211; to taste<\/li>\n<li>Ghee &#8211; 3 tbsp or to taste<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Method:<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nIn a pressure pan\/cooker, cook the rice and dal together with green chillies, ginger, asafoetida and salt adding around 4-5 cups water. (The dal should be well done and smashed along with the rice).<\/p>\n<p>In a small pan, heat the ghee, fry the cashews till roasted and set aside. Then in the same pan with the remaining ghee, fry the pepper, cumin seeds and curry leaves and pour the entire mixture into the cooked rice and dal. Add in the roasted cashews. Mix well. if needed, can heat some more ghee and add to this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Miscellaneous:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tips: You can also crush the black pepper into a coarse mix and add instead of using whole black pepper. Serve with pickle or any hot chutney or sambhar, coconut chutney.<\/li>\n<li>Serves 4-5<\/li>\n<li>Cooking Time: 20 min<\/li>\n<li>Cuisine: Indian<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ingredients: Moong Dal &#8211; 3\/4 cup Rice &#8211; 1 1\/4 cups Asafoetida &#8211; a pinch Ginger &#8211; 1\/4 inch finely chopped Green Chillies &#8211; 2 slit halfway Cashews &#8211; 1 tbsp Whole black pepper &#8211; 1 tsp Cumin seeds &#8211; 1 tsp Curry Leaves &#8211; 7 Salt &#8211; to taste Ghee &#8211; 3 tbsp or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rice-varieties"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ven Pongal - Priya&#039;s Food Bites<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kaizen.ist\/cooking\/ven-pongal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ven Pongal - Priya&#039;s Food Bites\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ingredients: Moong Dal &#8211; 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