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Home » All recipes » Ven Pongal Recipe (Dry)| Lunch Box Recipe

Ven Pongal Recipe (Dry)| Lunch Box Recipe

Published: Feb 19, 2013 · Modified: Sep 13, 2019

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Ven pongal dry recipe with detailed instructions- Ven pongal or Khara Pongal  is a popular south indian breakfast recipe. The pongal is made with rice and moong dal. The consistency of the pongal is generally soft and mushy. Its best eaten piping hot. Today i have made the dry version of the pongal. I have reduced the amount of water, so its not mushy and can be easily packed for lunch box.
How about making  a dry pongal with equal quantity of rice to moong dal. Its a one pot meal, realtively healthy meal  and a great lunch box recipe.  I add some lemon juice at the end of the cooking process which gives a nice taste to the pongal. Kids in general do not require any side with it. But if you plan to give a  side you can accompany the pongal with Masala Tomato curry, Potato Kurma, Peanut tomato chutney or Carrot Capsicum pachadi (chutney)
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Recipe:

(Serves 3)

Ingredients:

  1. Rice – ½ cup
  2. Moong dal – ½ cup
  3. Whole pepper corns- about 10 and crushed pepper corns – about 4
  4. lightly crushed Cumin seeds- 1 tsp
  5. Chopped Ginger- 1 inch
  6. Cashew nuts- about 8
  7. Few curry leaves
  8. Grated coconut- 1 tbsps
  9. Salt to taste
  10. Lemon juice to taste
  11. Oil- 3 tsps
  12. Hing – 2 pinches
  13. Water- about 1 ½ to 2 cups

Procedure:

    • Wash the rice, drain the water and keep on the side.
    • Take a  pressure cooker add the oil. When it gets hot add the cashew, cumin seed and  black pepper. Fry for few seconds.
    • Now add the curry leaves, ginger, coconut and hing. Fry for 30 seconds.
    • Add the moong dal and mix. Fry for few seconds.
    • Now add the rice. and necessary salt.
    • Add water, mix and close the lid.
    • Cook on a medium heat up to three vissels. Turn off the heat.
    • When the pressure goes down, open the lid  add the lemon juice and mix. Check for seasoning.
    • Dry pongal is now ready to be served.

Cook’s Tip:

  • Each pressure cooker is different so please do adjust the cooking time and water accordingly.

 

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  1. Sofia Sana

    August 28, 2013 at 5:32 pm

    Nice dish…
    puliyodarai is one of my favorite lunch box recipe
    My friend in from Andra
    Her puliyodarai taste is something different
    But ours also very nice

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  2. Latha Madhusudhan

    February 22, 2013 at 6:00 am

    Luv the twist of this lovely pongal.

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  3. ♥LOVE2COOK MALAYSIA♥

    February 21, 2013 at 11:18 am

    Truly tempting dish! Never knew there’s dry pongal too 🙂

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  4. Maha Gadde

    February 21, 2013 at 12:56 am

    wow..delicious and tempting .

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  5. Lubna Karim

    February 20, 2013 at 6:54 pm

    Simple and yum one pot meal….

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  6. Padhu

    February 20, 2013 at 3:53 pm

    My favourite!

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  7. Kitchen Queen

    February 20, 2013 at 2:57 pm

    nice dish.

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  8. Nabanita Das

    February 19, 2013 at 7:43 pm

    This pongal I love just madly… Nice looks too.

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  9. manju nardas

    February 19, 2013 at 3:14 pm

    Pongal looks very tempting……..chala bagundi.Great space happy to follow you.

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  10. Sangeetha

    February 19, 2013 at 7:13 pm

    thanks for this easy n quick pongal version 🙂 loved ur idea…rice looks so inviting, neat presentation too!

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  11. Vimitha Anand

    February 19, 2013 at 8:41 am

    Never tried the dry variety. Nice one. will try soon

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  12. Arthy Suman

    February 19, 2013 at 7:49 am

    im loving this pongal, quite different from the usual ones…

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  13. Sireesha Puppala

    February 19, 2013 at 7:13 am

    Pongal ante maku pichi…..:) nice dear

    Reply
  14. Vijayalakshmi Dharmaraj

    February 19, 2013 at 11:25 am

    its my all time favorite pongal… very inviting dear…

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