Pongal

1. Rice - 1 cup
(soaked for 1/2 hr)
2. Pepper - 1 spoon
3. Geeragam(Cumin seeds) - 1/2 sp
4. Karuvepillai (Curry leaves)
5. Salt - 2 sp
6. Cashewnut - 10(sauteed in ghee)
7. Sugar - 1/2 cup
8. Milk - 1 tumbler
9. Ghee - 4 sp

METHOD :

1. Mix 2 cups water + 1 cup milk and add rice and salt and cook in electric cooker.

SWEET PONGAL (Sakkarai Pongal)

1. Take 1 cup cooked rice and add sugar 1/2 cup, cashewnut 5,ghee 2 sp and mix them well when its hot.

VENN PONGAL

1. Saute 2 sp oil , pepper, cumin seeds, karuvepillai(curry leaves), cashewnut 5 and add it to the cooked rice and add 2 sp ghee. Add salt if needed.

NOTE :
Coconut chutney and sambhar goes well with Venn pongal.