Topic started by Skanthavelu Nadarajah (@ edtntnt13-port-242.dial.telus.net) on Sun Jul 7 12:23:40 .
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Please could someone tell me how to prepare hot pongal and sweet pongal?

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• From: devi (@ ac84690d.ipt.aol.com) on: Mon Jul 8 11:25:27
  
  Hai, to prepare milagu pongal 1cup raw rice,1/2 cup moong dal or payattam paruppu in tamil,salt to taste,black pepper 10 in count or 1/2 a tsp,jeeragam 1/4 tsp,,ginger a smallpeice,curry leaves and ghee.cook rice and dal in a cooker.Keep a fry pan on the stove put2 tsp ghee fry cashews and remove it keep it aside ,than add 2 spoons gheeto it when it is hot first put pepper and jeeragam when it got fried add grated or cut ginger and curry leaves .at last add cashws and mix it well.Eat with coconut chutney or sambar.
  
  
• From: CI (@ d205-15-30372) on: Mon Jul 8 14:09:41
  
  Hi,
  I make the hot pongal or Ven pongal (i guess that's what they call) a little differently.
  Ingredients:
  rice 1 cup
  Water 31/2 cups
  moong dal 1/4 - 1/2 cup(You can decide on what you want here - more protein put 1/2 cup)
  pepper - 10 -15 (depending on how hot you want)
  Jeera - 1 tsp
  Ginger - 1 inch cut into very small pieces or shreds
  Hing - 2 pinches
  Cashewnuts - a few.
  Ghee - 4 Tbs
  Salt - as per taste
  Turmeric - a pinch
  Grated dry coconut (Copra) - 1/4 cup
  Method:
  Dry roast moong dall for about 5 minutes. (Should not become brown) Put moong dall, rice , water, salt, turmeric in a vessel and cook it. (Alternately, you can use pressure cooker) After it is done, in a separate pan, heat ghee. Add hing, jeera, crushed pepper, ginger, cashewnuts. Add the cooked rice & dall mixture and mix it well. If the mixture is very thick, you can add a little bit of water now. At the end, add dry coconut gratings. Pongal is ready. You can serve it with coconut chutney. I'll post the sweet pongal recipe a little later. Got to go now.
  
  
• From: meena (@ user-10fuh6c.dsl.mindspring.com) on: Mon Jul 8 15:17:30
  
  Sweet Pongal:
  Rice - 1cup
  Green gram dhal(moong dhal) - 1/4 cup (roasted)
  Jaggery - 1cup
  OR
  Sugar - 1 1/2 cups (check for desired sweetness)
  Ghee - 1/4 to 1/2 cup
  Milk - 1cup
  H20 - 11/2 cup or more is ok.
  cardamom pwd., cashew nuts, raisins, saffron
  
  :Fry nuts/raisins in 2tblspns of ghee and remove and keep aside.
  Same ghee add green gram dhal and fry on low heat.(till u smell nice aroma and fried evenly light brown)
  Add water and boil.
  Cook dhal until 3/4 done.
  Add washed rice and cook.
  After 2-3 mts. add milk and cook.
  
  When rice and dal are well cooked add jaggery/sugar. Mix well.(check for sweetness)
  
  Let it become thick and mushy. Add the fried nuts, cardamom pwd, saffron ( soak in 2/3 tblspn milk).
  
  MIx well. Allow to remain on low heat for 2-3 mts. Enjoy!
  
  
• From: Blade Pakkiri (@ im1.engin.umich.edu) on: Sun Jul 14 22:40:53
  
  Like a lot others, my work requires me to sit staring at the monitor for hours together. I got into a `dry-eye' problem a couple of months ago, affecting my vision badly. A lot of people have this trouble and go in for eye-drops. On asking around, i found that it is more due to deficiency of essential fatty acids which got compounded by staring at the monitor. I found that i was missing sufficient dhalls in my lazy-bachelor diet, and started eating more varieties of dhall.
  Why that issue comes in this thread.... is because i found that paasi paruppu (moong dhall) is a very important part of diet. Whenever i cook and eat moong dhall, my eyes feel better, (no illusions), my far sight improves a lot. Nowadays I try to include it as straight dhall, or by making payasam out of it. Moong dhall is a real good stuff.. so eat a lot of pongal.
  
  
• From: Devi (@ aca81af7.ipt.aol.com) on: Thu Jul 18 15:00:38
  
  Halo,paasi paruppu is good for your health but the whole greengram dal is really good .you can make sundal,paayasam,dgreen dosai etc.Instead eating lot of pongal eat the dal in different forms.Thank you,devi
  
  
• From: Skanthavelu Nadarajah (@ edtntnt1-port-35.dial.telus.net) on: Sat Jul 20 23:31:10
  
  Devi,
  There are so many kinds of dahls. Can you explain more on this? Thank you. Jai Karunamayi!
  
  
• From: Devi (@ ac9480eb.ipt.aol.com) on: Wed Jul 24 10:33:10
  
  Halo..!
  as you mentioned earlier you ,you suffered with eye problem.For this you are required Vit.A.Whole grains like pachchai payirru(green gram),kondai kadalai(chick pea)etc.sprout the grains means soak for 6hrs and then filter the water tie in a cloth let be for 36 hrs.These sprouted grains are good for eyes.Either you can have it like salads or like curries.Eat more carrots and greens. Thank you.Devi.
  
  

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