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Vegetable Pongali




Ingredients

  • Raw Rice – 1 cup
  • Pesara pappu / Moong Dal – ½ cup
  • Carrot – 1, small size, finely chopped
  • Beans – 5 stalks, finely chopped
  • Green Peas – a handful
  • Onion – 1, medium size, finely chopped
  • Tomato – 1, medium size, finely chopped
  • Green chillies – 3, finely chopped
  • Ginger – 1” piece, finely chopped
  • Black Pepper – ½ tsp
  • Jeera – ½ tsp
  • Patta / Cinnamon – 1” piece
  • Ghee – 2 tbsps
  • Cashew nuts – 10 no’s
  • Curry Leaves – 2 sprigs
  • Salt to taste 

Preparation Method

  1. Pressure cook the rice, dal with 3 ½ cups of water along with salt & little jeera for 4 whistles.
  2.  Cool and open the pressure cooker lid, mash the rice-dal mixture.
  3. Heat the oil in a pan, add pepper, jeera, patta and lavanga, stir fry for half a minute.
  4. Now add onion, green chillies, ginger, vegetables, cashew nuts and fry for about 3-4 minutes.
  5. Add salt needed for the vegetable, already salt has been added in the rice-dal mixture.
  6. Cook till the vegetable has become soft.
  7. Add tomatoes and curry leaves, stir for a minutes.
  8. Mix these fried vegetables to the mashed rice-dal mixture.
  9. Add a dollop of ghee and Serve hot with coconut chutney.

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