Ven Pongal

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Ven Pongal  is one of the wonderful Tiffin which is prepared in Tamil Nadu. It is the Hot and Spicy Pongal.  We can say that it is a famous and popular dish in South India. It tastes wonderful and it is a kind of food which is mostly love by the Tamil people. You make it this dish in various hotel in different places but they may not taste much wonderful like Tamil Nadu Ven Pongal. Today I'm going to tell about the wonderful preparation about how to prepare this Ven Pongal. Below are the list of ingredients which are needed for preparing it. It just takes 5 min to prepare this wonderful dish.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup rice,
• half cup yellow moong dal (split moong dal),
• 5 cup of water,
• half tablespoon ginger garlic paste,
• 5 to 6 Curry leaves,
• two tablespoon dalda,
• three tablespoon pepper powder,
• 4 to 5 pepper seeds,
• half tablespoon Jeera,
• salt to taste

preparation method of South Indian Ven Pongal:

take a pressure cooker, take two tablespoon of dalda and now you can add pepper seeds, ginger garlic paste and just stir it well. Now you can add water into it. Let it come to a boil now you can add pepper powder and salt into it. Now you can add rice and moong dal. Closed pressure cooker and wait until the water evaporates from it. It will take long time to cook and evaporate the water. Now you can switch of the stove and served it with samba and coconut chutney.

South Indian Sambar

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Sambar is one of the wonderful dish which is excellent it taste and even have a healthy vitamins and minerals which are needed for the body. We can say that this sambar consist of vegetable stew which gives a wonderful taste. Everyone loves to taste to this sambar in South India such as Tamil Nadu. Everyone believes that the taste of Tamil Nadu sambar is really perfect.

Below is the recipe for preparing the Kerala sambar at home. You can serve this samba with Idli, ven pongal, Dosai, Medu Vada. 

 Ingredients:

•  carrot, radish, pumpkin,  potatoes, tomatoes, brinjal and onions,
• pinch of Hing,
• 2 tablespoon samba powder,
• 1 cup of toor dal,
• tamarind juice
• Curry leaves,
• salt to taste
• 2 cup of water
• oil,
• one tablespoon mustard seeds,
• one tablespoon cumin seeds
• pinch of turmeric powder

preparation method of samba:

preparing this dish is really very easy and it can be done just within 10 min. Wash the toor dal well and put it into a pressure cooker, water and turmeric powder. And let it be on the flame until the three whistles comes out of it. When this process is completed you can just remove it from the flame and at the vegetables which are chopped. Now you can add samba powder, Hing, salt, very little amount of tamarind pulp juice. And just wait for one whistle. Now you can remove it from the flame. Now the samba is ready to serve but you must remember that you need to garnish it it. The process of publishing called as talimpu. Take pan and add two tablespoon of oil. Now you can add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, Curry leaves. And let it crackle. Now you can add this on to the sambar. Now you can serve hot sambar with your dish. It even taste good with hot rice and papad.