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Ingredients

1.Steel cut Oats or Rolled Oats – 1 cup (No instant Oats as it will become very gooey)

2.Mixed vegetables like carrot ,Peas,Beans,Potato,etc – 1 cup finely chopped

3. Onion – 1 finely chopped

4.Green chilli – 3 slitted

5.Ginger – 1 tbsp finely chopped

6.Curry leaves – few

7.Mustard seeds – 1 tsp

8.Chana dal – 1 tsp

9.Turmeric powder - ¼ tsp

10.Oil – 1 tbsp

11.Salt to taste

Method

1.Roast oats in a skillet till oats gets hot.Keep aside.

2.Heat oil in a deep skillet.Add mustard seeds, let it splitter,add chana dal and curry leaves and roast.

2.Saute onion,Green chilli and Ginger.Add all vegetables and saute for 5 minutes.

3.Sprinkle little water and cook covered for 5 minutes.

4.Add oats and water(2 cups for steel cut oats and 1 ½ cups for Rolled oats).

5.Add Turmeric powder and salt.Cook covered for 10 minutes.If oats is not cooked enough,sprinkle little water and cook for another 5 minutes.

6.Serve hot with chutney and curd(yogurt).

Ingredients

1.Raw rice – ½ cup

2.Moond dal - ½ cup

3.Peppercorns – 10

4.Cumin seeds – 1 tbsp

5.Green chilli – 1 slitted

6.Ginger – 1 tbsp finely chopped

7.Curry leaves – few

8.Ghee or clarified butter – 2 tbsp

9.Salt to taste

Method

1.Pressure cook rice and dal with 3 cups of water with salt to taste.Alternatively, rice and dal can be cooked in a container until soft.

2.Heat ghee in a pan.Roast peppercorns,cumin seeds, followed by Green chilli and Ginger.Mix this seasoning with cooked rice and dal mixture.

3.Serve hot with sambar or chutney or Gosthu

You can make few variations while making pongal.

1.Make Rice and dal ratio 2:1

2.Crush peppercorns and cumin seeds for seasoning.

3.You can use oil instead of ghee for a diet friendly version of pongal