Ven Pongal

Ingredients:

Rice (Pachai Arici) 1 Cup
Mong Dal 1/4 Cup
Black Pepper(Melagu) 1 table spoon
Cumin seeds (Seragam) 1 table spoon
Green Chillies 2 No(cut one into 2 pieces)
Curry Leaves small quantity
Ghee/Oil 4 Table spoon
Cashew Nuts 50 grams
Ginger finely chopped a small piece
Salt to taste

Method:

1. Wash rice and dal together and add salt and water and pressure cook well.(for one cup of rice add 2 cup of water)
2.Now add 2 spoon of Ghee/Oil in frying pan and add pepper,then cumin seeds, green chillies,ginger and cumin seeds fry well for 2 mins and add this to cooked rice.
3.In the same pan add remaining 2 spoon of ghee/oil and fry the cashews and add it to the rice.
4.Now mix the rice well with all these fried items so that it mixes well with rice.
5.Now Tasteful ven pongal is ready add more ghee to taste better.

Side Dish
The best combination is Both Sambar and Coconut Chutney.

Adai

Ingredients:

Rice - 1 cup
Toor dal (thuvaram paruppu) 1/2 cup
Moong dal (pasi paruppu) - 1/4 cup
Bengal gram (kadalai paruppu) 1/4 cup
Big Onion Finely chopped 1 No
Dry Chillies 5 No
Corriander Leaves Finely chopped 2 teaspoon
Sombu(Fennel seed) 1 tablespoon
Kadugu 1 tablespoon
Perungayam 1/2 table spoon
Salt To Taste


Procedure:

1. Soak the rice and dal for 1 hour.
2.Grind it with dry chillies, sombu and salt with some water and make it as thick batter.
3.Now pour 2 spoons of oil in a cooking pan and add kadugu then add onion and fry well then add perungayam and corriander leaves and mix this with batter well.
4.Now you can make tasteful adai in dosa pan add a teaspoon of oil on both sides.

Note:
Serve this with Avial (made of all vegetables and coconut) the best combination and my hubbys favourite dish
Its also goes good with sugar, or chutney.

Aappam

Ingredients:

Rice(Pachai Arisi) one cup
Ulundu(Urudu dal) 1/4 Cup
Vendayam 2 table spoon
Salt required amount

Procedure:

1.Soak the above ingredients except salt for 4 hours.
2.Then grind it to make batter by adding salt and keep it aside for a night.
3.Now heat the appam pan and pour a big spoon of batter and and roll it all the sides of the pan and close it with a lid so that appam cooks well.
4. Add a teaspoon of oil while cooking. now appam is ready to eat.
5.You can even add egg while cooking and spread some pepper powder to make it as Egg Appam

Note :
It goes well with coconut milk, Paya ( made of mutton), or any kara chutney.
You can make Egg Appam, Onion Appam annd some more according to your taste