Brown Rice Pongal
Brown Rice Pongal

Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, brown rice pongal. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Brown Rice Pongal is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Brown Rice Pongal is something which I have loved my whole life.

Brown Rice Pongal: Give a healthy spin to the traditional Pongal recipe by using brown rice instead of white rice. Pongal is made with white rice (preferably ponni raw rice or even sona masuri). To adopt a healthy lifestyle I have used brown rice instead.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have brown rice pongal using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Brown Rice Pongal:
  1. Get 3/4 cup Basmati brown rice
  2. Get 1/3 cup split green gram (moong dal)
  3. Make ready to taste salt
  4. Get 3 & 1/4 cups water
  5. Make ready 2 tbsp. oil
  6. Take 1/2 tsp. mustard seeds
  7. Get 1-2 dry red chilies, broken
  8. Take 1-2 sprigs curry leaves
  9. Prepare 1 tsp. grated ginger
  10. Get 1/2 tsp. whole peppercorns
  11. Make ready 1 tsp. urad dal (split black gram)
  12. Prepare 1 tbsp. chana dal (Bengal gram)
  13. Prepare 1/4 tsp. asafoetida
  14. Make ready 1/2 cup cashew nuts
  15. Make ready 2 tbsp. ghee

Soaking the rice in water before cooking helps to soften the grains evenly. Chakkara Pongal with Brown Rice Yum Chakkara Pongal / Sakkara Pongal/ Chakkarai Pongal is an auspicious sweet dish made on Pongal day. The freshly harvested rice and dal, are cooked along with jaggery for a simple, minimalistic sweet dish to mark the occasion of Pongal, a festival celebrated with much fervour in Tamil Nadu. Pour this in to pongal along with ghee.

Steps to make Brown Rice Pongal:
  1. Wash the rice and dal 2-3 times and then soak in sufficient water preferably overnight. Drain and keep aside for 10 minutes.
  2. Heat 1 tbsp. ghee in a pan and saute the drained rice and dal for 2 minutes. Now add water and salt and pressure cook for 5-6 whistles on a low flame. Let it cool down before you open the lid.
  3. Heat the oil in a pan and temper with dry red chilies and mustard seeds. After it stops spluttering, add the curry leaves. urad dal, chana dal, peppercorns, ginger, asafoetida and the cashew nuts. Saute for a few seconds and then switch off the flame.
  4. Pour this tempering over the prepared pongal along with ghee. Serve with coconut chutney.

Today we are making pongal with brown basmati rice which is one variety of long grain brown rice, definitely a healthy option for white rice. Lets get into the tricks and tips to handle this tough one! Pongal is a traditional and popular South Indian breakfast dish. The regular pongal is made with white rice and dal. This variation is made using brown rice and dal.

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