South Indian Breakfast - Ven Pongal & Kadamba Sambhar
South Indian Breakfast - Ven Pongal & Kadamba Sambhar

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South Indian Breakfast - Ven Pongal & Kadamba Sambhar is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. South Indian Breakfast - Ven Pongal & Kadamba Sambhar is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

Pongal is the simple and easy breakfast recipe. Pongal is also traditional dish prepared usually in harvest festivals such as Pongal, Makara Sankranthi. Ven Pongal is a savory south Indian breakfast food which is made using rice and yellow moong dal, tempered with cumin seeds, black peppercorns, ginger, curry leaves and ghee and garnished with cashew nuts. ‹ › ‹ › Traditionally it is prepared during the harvest festival "PONGAL".

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have south indian breakfast - ven pongal & kadamba sambhar using 26 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make South Indian Breakfast - Ven Pongal & Kadamba Sambhar:
  1. Get For Pongal :
  2. Get 1/2 Cup Raw Rice
  3. Prepare 1/4 cup Moong Dhal/Paasi Parupu
  4. Take 1 tsp Ginger chopped
  5. Take 1 pinch Hing/Asafoetida
  6. Get 1 tsp Black Pepper Corns
  7. Prepare 1 tsp pepper powder
  8. Take 2 tbsp ghee
  9. Get 2 tsp jeera/cumin seeds
  10. Make ready 1/3 cup Milk
  11. Take as needed Few Cashew Nuts
  12. Prepare as needed Curry Leaves Little
  13. Make ready to taste Salt as per taste
  14. Prepare For Kadamba Sambhar:
  15. Get 2 tsp Oil
  16. Prepare 1 tsp Methi /Fenugreek seeds
  17. Get as needed Mixed Veggies(Carrot,Beans,Peas,Sweet Potato,Potato) You can add veggies of your choice
  18. Take as needed Small Ball of Tamarind (Extract Paste)
  19. Get 2 tsp Sambhar Powder
  20. Take 1 tsp Coriander Powder
  21. Take 1/3 cup Toor Dhal + 2tbsp Moong Dhal with little Turmeric Powder (Pressure cook it for 3 whistles)
  22. Prepare To Temper:
  23. Prepare 1 tsp Mustard Seeds
  24. Make ready 1/2 tsp Urad Dhal
  25. Make ready as needed Curry Leaves Few
  26. Prepare to taste Salt

Breakfast is a very important meal as it kick starts the day, pepping us with all the energy. Ven Pongal is South India's equivalent of the North Indian khichdi. Cooked rice and moong dal are flavoured with ginger, crushed peppercorns and cumin seeds, and garnished with ghee-roasted cashew nuts and curry leaves. Ven Pongal has a unique flavour and consistency, which are rich yet soothing.

Instructions to make South Indian Breakfast - Ven Pongal & Kadamba Sambhar:
  1. For Pongal: Dry Roast raw rice and moong dhal in a pressure cooker.
  2. Keep that aside.Add 1 tbsp ghee,ginger and hing.Saute for a min.
  3. Add 3 cups of water,required salt and pressure cook them for 3 or 4 whistles.
  4. Once cooker is released mash the cooked rice and dhal well (Add water if it is too dry) and boil for sometime.
  5. In the end before tempering add milk and mix well and boil for a min. (This gives pongal a creamy texture and an awesome taste).
  6. Add the black pepper powder.
  7. Take a tempering pan and add 1 or 2 tbsp of ghee. Once it is hot add the jeera,black pepper corns,curry leaves and cashew nuts. Saute well.
  8. Add the tempering to the pongal and serve hot with Sambhar and Chutney.
  9. Kadamba Sambhar: In a kadai add little oil. Once it heats up add little mustard seeds. Once it splutters add the methi seeds and saute.
  10. Add the mixed veggies and saute them for a min.
  11. Add the Sambhar Powder,Coriander Powder and salt and mix it well.
  12. Extract the tamarind and add them to the sambhar and add water.
  13. Boil them till the veggies get cooked well.
  14. Mash the toor dhal+moong dhal and add them by adjusting water if required.
  15. Boil till you get the froth and temper with Mustard seeds,Urad Dhal and Curry leaves.

Khara Pongal / Ven pongal is a tasty and filling breakfast in the morning. It is also prepared during festival times. I just love the smell of the thalippu I already posted ven pongal, but this is with step by step pictures and here I am going to cook the dal and rice separately. Lets see how to prepare basic. Just hearing this word brings me pleasant memories of Chennai.

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