Ven Pongal

== Description ==
* Ethnicity - South Indian
* Type of meal - Party, Lunch, Dinner
== Ingredients ==
* 1 cup: Raw rice
* ½ cup: milk
* 1/3 cup: green gram dal
* 11/2 tsp: black pepper
* 1 tsp: cumin seeds
* 1 tbs: Broken cashew nuts
* 1 tbs: Finely cut ginger (optional)
* A few: curry leaves
* 2 tbs: ghee
* 5 cup: water
* salt to taste
== Directions ==
# Wash rice and dal and cook them together in five cups of water for 10 minutes.
# Add salt, curry leaves and ginger with half a cup of milk. Simmer for a minute and remove from fire.
# Fry cashew nuts, pepper and cumin seeds in ghee.
# Pour this over the rice-dal mixture.
# Mix well and serve steaming hot with ghee on top.
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