Rava Pongal Recipe, How to Make Rava Pongal Recipe

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Rava pongal recipe for pongal festival: I love Ven Pongal and my mom-in-law makes it really well. During their last visit, she made pongal with rava which was very new to me. Makes it a bit lighter than regular khara pongal which is quite heavy and I am usually not hungry at lunch time if I have pongal for breakfast. I would still eat though. When has not being hungry ever stopped some of us from eating, eh?

Anyway, I am almost leaning towards saying that I like rava pongal better than the regular pongal. It’s more creamy and if you add the recommended amount of ghee, which I must admit is a lot, it’s absolutely heavenly.

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Rava pongal is best served with gotsu or arachuvitta sambar and chutney.

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Rava Pongal Recipe

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Rava pongal is a pongal recipe that uses rava and moong dal instead of raw rice. A light, healthy, and delicious recipe that serves as a good South Indian breakfast meal.

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Prep Time 20 minutes mins

Cook Time 20 minutes mins

Total Time 40 minutes mins

Course Breakfast

Cuisine Tamil

Servings 4

Ingredients

  

• 2 cups of rava / semolina
• 1/2 cup of moong dal cherupayar / paasi paruppu
• 1 tsp of black peppercorns
• 1 tsp of jeera / cumin seeds
• 1/4 cup + 2 tbsp of ghee / clarified butter
• 1/4 tsp of hing / perungaayam / asafoetida
• 10-12 cashew nuts halved
• A few curry leaves
• Salt to taste

Instructions

 

• Cook the moong dal with 1.5 cups water until mushy and soft. Mash further with a fork or potato masher until there are no more lumps. Pressure cooker works quickest here and it really helps if you have time to soak the dal for an hour or so.
• Heat 2 tbsp ghee in a pan and add the pepper and jeera along with cashew nuts. Roast until the cashew nuts turn a golden brown and then add the semolina.
• Roast on low fire for about 5 mins until it begins to change colour to a light brown.
• At this stage, add the salt and hing. Mix well.
• Next, add the cooked moong dal. Mix to incorporate and lower the flame.
• Meanwhile, bring 2.5 cups of water to boil in another pan.
• Add the boiling water to the rava-moong dal mixture. Mix well to incorporate.
• Then add the 1/4 cup ghee.
• Stir well to combine and in about 3-4 mins, you will see the mixture thickens and leaves the sides of the pan.
• Rave pongal is ready. Serve hot with gotsu, sambar, or chutney

How to Make Rava Pongal Step by Step:

1. Cook the moong dal with 1.5 cups water until mushy and soft. Mash further with a fork or potato masher until there are no more lumps. Pressure cooker works quickest here.

2. Heat 2 tbsp ghee in pan and add the pepper and jeera along with cashew nuts. Roast until the cashew nuts turn a golden brown and then add the rava. Roast on low fire for about 5mins until it begins to change colour to a light brown.

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3. At this stage, add the salt and hing. Mix well.

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4. Then add the cooked moong dal. Mix to incorporate and lower the flame.

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5. Meanwhile, bring 2.5 cups of water to boil in another pan.

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6. Add the boiling water to the rava-moong dal mixture. Mix well to incorporate.

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Then add the 1/4 cup ghee.

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7. Stir well to combine and in about 3-4 mins, you will see the mixture thickens and leaves the sides of the pan.

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Serve hot!

The best combination for rava pongal, or any type of pongal, is gothsu which I haven’t tried before. We had it for dinner with some vengaya kara kozhambu with coconut milk which went beautifully with the rava pongal.

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