Manja Pongal / Turmeric  Pongal
Manja Pongal / Turmeric  Pongal

Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, manja pongal / turmeric  pongal. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Manja Pongal / Turmeric  Pongal is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Manja Pongal / Turmeric  Pongal is something which I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook manja pongal / turmeric  pongal using 8 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Manja Pongal / Turmeric  Pongal:
  1. Take 1 cup Raw Rice
  2. Take 1 cup Toor dal
  3. Prepare 6 cups water
  4. Get turmeric
  5. Prepare salt
  6. Prepare 4 tbsps ghee
  7. Take asafoetida
  8. Make ready 6 tbsps Coconut oil
Steps to make Manja Pongal / Turmeric  Pongal:
  1. Take raw rice and toor dal in a cooking container that'll fit inside your pressure cooker.
  2. Wash rice and dal 4 times until the last rinse of water comes clean.
  3. Add in 6 cups of water, the ratio for cooking rice is 1:3 since we have added toor dal with this double the quantity of water that is the ratio should be 2:6. Add a tsp of turmeric to this.
  4. Cook this in pressure cooker up to 8 whistles. Switch off the stove and allow it to release the pressure on its own. Overall this will take about 20-25 minutes.
  5. Open the cooker, you'll see that the rice and dal would have cooked up to mashable texture, in thamizh we call this as "kozhaiya Kozhaiya" or we iyengars use a term called "Allishal" and it should also have pouring consistency.
  6. Discard the water in the cooker that you would have used to cook the rice and dal, clean it with a clean towel and keep the cooker on medium heat.
  7. Let the water residue evaporate and add ghee to this. Add a generous pinch of asafoetida and pour the rice dal mixture into this and mix.
  8. Let it steep in low heat for about 7 minutes. Stir this in between.
  9. The consistency of the pongal will slightly become thicker,at this stage remove it from heat and add coconut oil and mix.
  10. Serve this hot with Manathakkali Mendhi Kuzhambu and Pappad.

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