Ven Pongal

Description

 * Ethnicity - South Indian
 * Type of meal - Party, Lunch, Dinner

Ingredients

 * 1 cup: Raw rice
 * ½ cup: milk
 * 1/3 cup: green gram dal
 * 11/2 tsp: black pepper
 * 1 tsp: cumin seeds
 * 1 tbs: Broken cashew nuts
 * 1 tbs: Finely cut ginger (optional)
 * A few: curry leaves
 * 2 tbs: ghee
 * 5 cup: water
 * salt to taste

Directions

 * 1) Wash rice and dal and cook them together in five cups of water for 10 minutes.
 * 2) Add salt, curry leaves and ginger with half a cup of milk. Simmer for a minute and remove from fire.
 * 3) Fry cashew nuts, pepper and cumin seeds in ghee.
 * 4) Pour this over the rice-dal mixture.
 * 5) Mix well and serve steaming hot with ghee on top.