Thursday, March 24, 2011

Paal Pongal (or) Milk Pongal

I always wondered how mother took so long to make it, its ingredients looked simple to me. I still don't know, but i made it in 10 mins using the cooker, it was PERFECT.

Ingredients
1. Milk 1 cup.
2. Rice 1 Cup (raw rice soaked for 10-15 minutes)
3. 50 grams cashews and dry grapes
4. 2-3 Cardamom
5. 50-75 gms ghee.
6. 1 cup + 4 tsps sugar
7. 2 cups water

Preparation:



  • In a small cooker or pressure pan, take half of the ghee, melt it and fry the dry fruits to a slight golden brown and pour the contents into a bowl, keep aside. 
  • In the same vessel, add the water , 3/4th of the milk and let it come to boil, now add the rice and some 4 tsps of ghee and cook with weight for 3 whistles.
  • After the pressure is gone, mix the contents in the vessel, add crushed cardamom to it plus the ghee and dry fruits and sugar and keep stirring till it starts to stick on sides, add the leftover milk if needed while stirring. 
  • Its done , serve it with Masala vada or just plain.

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