Shanuskitchen’s Nativity Style Pongal Day Specials

Wishing you all a very happy Pongal 2019. I wish that this Pongal fills your life with love, happiness, prosperity, health and spirituality. 

 இனிய தமிழர் திருநாள் தை பொங்கல் நல்வாழ்த்துகள்... 🎋

பொங்கல் திருநாள், தமிழர் திருநாள் என்கிற பெருமை கொண்டது. உழவுத் தொழிலுக்கு விழா எடுக்கும் தமிழர்களின் மேன்மையை உலகுக்கு உணர்த்துவது. இந்த விழாவில் அனைவரும் புத்தாடை அணிந்து, புதுப்பானையில் புத்தரிசி பொங்கலிட்டு வழிபாடுகளை நடத்துவது தமிழர்களின் தனிச்சிறப்பு.

I prepared the yummy dishes for today's special occasion. We used to prepare these kind of recipes on every year Pongal. It tastes great and good combination. Instead of Raw Plantain Fry, you can prepare potato fry also.

1.   Sweet Pongal/ சர்க்கரைப் பொங்கல்

2.   Vethu Pongal/ வெத்து பொங்கல்

3.   Mixed Vegetables Curry/ புளிலாக்கறி

4.   Raw Plantain Fry / வாழைக்காய் வறுவல்

5.   Coriander Chutney /கொத்தமல்லி துவையல்

Sweet Pongal

Ingredients

Raw Rice – 1 cup

Moong Dhal – 1 Cup

Jaggery – 1 ½ to 2 Cups (as per your taste)

Milk – 1 to 1 ½ Liter

Salt – a pinch

Cardamom Seeds – ¼ tsp

Cashew Nuts – 1 handful

Dry Grapes – 1 handful

Ghee – ½ to ¾ Cup

Method

Soak rice and dhal together in water for about 1 hour. In a pot/vessel/Pressure Cooker, bring milk to boil. Once it done, add the soaked rice and dhal with little salt. Keep cook until it becomes mushy like well cooked. Add cardamom seeds & half amount of ghee and mix it well. Add jaggery powder and mix it well. Switch off the flame. Heat remaining ghee in a pan, add dry grapes and cashew nuts fry for few seconds then transfer it into sweet Pongal.

Vethu Pongal

Ingredients

Raw Rice – 1 Cup

Moong Dhal – 1 Cup

Grated Coconut – 1 ½ to 2 Cups

Salt to taste.

Ghee – 2 tsp

Cashew Nuts – a handful

Method

Soak rice and dhal together for about 1 hour. Bring milk to boil in a vessel/pot/cooker. Once it done, add rice and dhal. Once the mixture cooked well, add required salt and grated coconut, then mix well. Switch off the flame. Heat ghee in a pan, add the cashew nuts and fry for a min, then add this into Vethu Pongal.

Mixed Vegetable Curry

Ingredients

Mixed Vegetables – 1 Cup

Chopped Onions – 1 (big)

Chopped Tomato – 1 (big)

Chopped Garlic – 5 Pods

Chopped Ginger – 1 tsp

Turmeric Powder – ½ tsp

Chilli Powder – ½ tsp

Coriander Powder – 1 tsp

Chopped Capsicum – ¼ cup

Vadagam – ½ tsp

Curry Leaves – few

Coriander Leaves – few

For Paste

Grated Coconut – 3 tsp

Fennel Seeds – ½ tsp

Method

Soak Moong Dhal for about 30 min to 1 hour. Bring water to boil, add soaked dhal and all the chopped vegetables, with little salt, turmeric powder, chilli powder, Coriander powder. Close the lid and keep cook for another 10 minutes on medium flame, add coconut paste and switch off the flame.

Heat oil in a pan, add vadagam and curry leaves, fry for few seconds. Then add sliced onions, tomato, fry until it becomes mushy. Then add ginger, garlic, capsicum fry for a min. Transfer it into mixed veg curry.

Raw Plantain Curry

Sliced Plantain – 1

Sliced Onions – 1 (big)

Chopped Tomato – 1

Chilli Powder – ½ tsp

Coriander Powder – 1 tsp

Slt to taste

Oil – 2 tsp

Vadagam = ½ tsp

Curry Leaves -few

Chopped coriander leaves – few

Method

Heat oil in a pan, add vadagam, curry leaves, then fry for few min. Add sliced plantain pieces with little salt and turmeric powder. Add chopped onions, tomatoes till it becomes mushy. Then add chilli powder, coriander powder with required water. Close the lid and sprinkle oil, cook until it gets roasted well. Switch off the flame.

Coriander Chutney

Washed and Chopped Coriander Leaves – a handful

Grated Coconut – 3 tsp

Red Chilli – 2

Salt to taste

Tamarind – a blueberry sized ball

Oil – 1 tsp

Method

Heat oil in a pan, add the ingredients one by one and saute it for few min. Switch off the flame. Let it cool down and grind it well.Have these yummy side dishes with yummy Pongal.