Red rice pongal | Kerala puttu arisi pongal-How to make-Stepwise pictures

Cuisine Style: Tamil Nadu, South India | Cooking Time: 15 minutes | To Serve: 3 | Type: Breakfast, dinner

Ingredients

• Broken red rice [kerala red rice] – 1 cup
• Moong dal – ¼ cup
• Ghee [melted butter] – 2 tbsp
• Peppercorns – ½ tbsp [Crushed]
• Salt to taste
• Water – 3 cups

For Seasoning [Ingredients]

• Cumin seeds – 1 tbsp
• Pepper corns - 7
• Ginger – 1 tbsp [finely chopped]
• Curry leaves – 1 spring
• Cashew nuts - 10
• Ghee – 2 tbsp

Method

• Wash & soak broken red rice for ½ an hour. Then drain water. Dry roast moong dal.
  
• In a pressure cooker, add soaked red rice, dry roasted moong dal & water. Add ghee, cover it & cook 4 to 5 whistles.
• Heat pan then add ghee & seasoning with cumin seeds, peppercorns, cashew nut, ginger, & curry leaves.
• Add these seasoned ingredients, salt & crushed peppercorns to red rice mixture mix well.
• Sprinkle ghee [melted butter] & serve hot with coconut chutney or sambar.
  

Tip

• For extra spicy flavor add green chilli when seasoning.

How to make Red rice pongal-Stepwise procedure with pictures[Easy, simple]

Soaked broken red rice

Dry roasted moong dal[pasi paruppu]

In a pressure cooker, add soaked red rice & moong dal

Add 3 cups of water

Add Ghee[melted butter]

Cover it & cook for 4 to 5 whistles

Perfectly cooked red rice & moong dal mixture

Mix well

Add salt

Heat pan add ghee & Seasoning with cumin seeds, peppercorns, ginger, cashews & curry leaves

Add seasoned ingredients to cooked red rice mixture

Add ghee

Mix well

Fully mixed red rice mixture

Perfectly textured red rice pongal

Finally add crushed peppercorns

Broken red rice pongal-Ready to serve-Serve hot with coconut chutney