VEN PONGAL

Ven pongal is made usually by Tamilians for Pongal.  It is served as breakast too.  For wedding and all, this is compulsory in Tamil Nadu for Breakfast as I have observed with medu vada, chutney and sambar.   This is named as Kichadi in North India. and served hot with Kadhi, papad and pickle.   It is made with rice, moongdal, pepper corns, cumin seeds etc. The ghee and fried cashewnuts adds flavour to it.  I have also prepared this with Samo rice or Moriyo rice.  
I have also posted Dalia Ven Pongal. &   moriyo-ven-pongal-sama-rice-ven-pongal.html  

DALIA VEN PONGAL (BROKEN WHEAT VEN PONGAL)

Pongal festival is on 14th of this month, I thought of sharing some pongal recipes.   Ven pongal is a South Indian dish served for breakfast.    Basically, it is a mixture of rice and moongdal cooked  with pepper corns, cumin seeds etc. garnished with cashewnuts and served with chutney or  sambar.  You serve it for breakfast, lunch or dinner, the hot pongal like khichadi  made in North India is all time favourite.  I have seen this given as prasadam in temples too.  moriyo-ven-pongal-sama-rice-ven-pongal.html

Here is the variation with lapsi or dalia it is called.   Normally it is prepared with moongdal but I have added some vegetables too in it to enhance the taste as well as to make it more attractive for children to eat this.  

Ingredients:

1/2  cup lapsi (medium size) (broken wheat)

2 cups water

1/2 cup masoor dal

1 tbsp finely chopped french beans

1 tbsp finely chopped carrots

1 tbs green peas (optional)

1 tbs finely chopped potatoes

1 tbs each of bell peppers (red, green and yellow)

1/4 tsp crushed black pepper/cumin

1/4 tsp whole black pepper

salt

grated coconut (optional)

salt

turmeric powder a pinch

asafoetida

curry leaves

1 tsp  oil

1 tsp ghee

Garnishing;

Cashewnuts

1 tsp ghee

Method:

Wash the lapsi,  masoor dal, keep aside. You can use moong dal.  If you are using moongdal, dry roast the same till nice aroma comes, do not burn.  In a kadai, heat the oil and ghee, add the curry leaves, crushed black pepper/cumin, whole black pepper, asafoetida.  add the veggies and saute for a minute. add the water, turmeric powder, salt and bring to a boil.  add the lapsi/masoor dal, mix and cover it.  cook till it is done.

in case you feel that it is not cooked, add some hot water.   fry the cashews and garnish.  lapsi ven pongal is ready. 

serve hot with coconut chutney, sambar or any other chutneys.

MORIYO DOSA, VARI TANDULACHI DOSA,, SAMA CHVAL KI DOSA, CHAMA ARI DOSA

Dosa varieties are many.  Any kind of dosa with sambar or chutney is loved by everyone if it is served hot.  We had guests in the week end from Ahmadabad.  My husband's cousin brother and fly.  When she saw me clicking photographs of certain items prepared, she gave me the recipe of this.  I have made upma, mango-burfi.html with vari tandul.  Now I am posting the dosa recipe.  It is very simple and easy to make like the normal dosa only.















Let us look at the recipe now:

3 cups vari tandul
1 cup urid dal
1/4 tsp fenugreek seeds
2 tbsp beaten rice, poha
salt

Method:

wash and soak the vari tandul for 2 hours with the fenugreek seeds.  wash and soak the urid dal for 1/2 hr. just before grinding, soak the poha too.  grind them in mixer separately the urid dal and vari tandul.  while grinding thandul, add the poha.  Add salt and mix well.  keep it for fermentation.  Heat tava apply oil and make the dosas as you make the normal dosas.


varieties of dosas:

tricolour-dosa-tiranga-dosa.
cucumber-dosa.
jaggery-dosa-vella-dosa-sweet-dosa-gud.
water-melon-dosa-tarboosini-dosa-dosa.
dill-leaves-dosa.
mix-sprouts-dosaadai
adai-rice-and-lentil-crepe
bun-dosa
banana-dosa.
masala-dosa.
wheat-flour-dosa-godumai-dosa.
rava-dosa-sujidosa-semolina-dosa.
ragi-dosa-and-uttappa.
neer-dosa.
vermicelli-dosa.
rasam-dosa.
muringa-elai-adai-drumstick-leaves-adai.
junglee-rolls.

BANANA WALNUT CAKE (EGGLESS) l Cakes/bakes

Now my adventurous journey has begun with trying out bakery products.  One of my colleague gave me this recipe yesterday and I was sure that I am going to try this today without eggs.  She gave me a version with egg.  I used Flaxeeds in place of egg and the end product was awesome. The taste of banana and walnut in it makes the cake very yummy.

RASAM VADAI, RASA VADA

Rasam vadai or rasa vada is usually made whenever we make medu vada.  The real taste of rasam vada is when you make vada, you must put the same in the rasam diretly.  Then only the real taste of rasam vada you can enjoy.  This was told to me by one uncle when I served him in one of the occasion.  Since then, I followed his method and really enjoyed.  recently I tried with dosa and it was awesome.

RASAM DOSA

Rasam and dosa are my favourite.  Any time you give me rasam and rice, I am always ready to eat this with roasted papad.  I do not need any dry subzi along with it.  We all are familiar with rasam vada. Have you tried this rasam dosa?  It is really awesome if you are a rasam lover.

BEETROOT STIR FRY, BEETROOT PORIYAL; DRY SUBZI

I have already posted beetroot subzi    this is yet another version of dry subzi made  out of beet root.  I prefer to eat the beetroot subzi with curd rice specially.  I happened to eat this subzi recently at Ayyappan Temple along with hot rice, sambar and rasam.  Since I liked it very much, I prepared it with slight variation.  Normally, in South Indian Poriyal, coconut along with red or green chilli, cumin seeds are coarsely ground and added in the subzi.

LAUKI SUBZI, DUDHI SUBZI

Luaki or Dudhi or Bottlegourd is very good for health.  It helps in controlling the diabetic, weight and inflammation in liver and kidney.    Lauki juice consumed in empty stomach helps in   curing the urinary tract infections.  A very simple and tasty subzi made out of this goes well with rice, chapati is presented for you today.

TOMATO RAITA

Raita is a good accompaniment for pulao, roti etc. Any kind of raita goes well with the pulao, roti.  Here I am presenting a simple and easy tomato raita recipe for you.

BAMBOO RICE PULAO, MULA ARI PULAO

I have already posted Bamboo rice kheer.  Now I am posting Bamboo rice pulao.  This pulao tastes like the normal red boiled  rice pulao.  This is a medicinal rice too in ayurvedic and good for controlling cholesterol, sugar and blood pressure.  It also helps in reducing the join pain, back pain, arthritis pain etc.

bamboo rice pulao You tube