Happy Pongal greetings to you all. I want to make this pongal bit healthy this time, so I used Quinoa. This is the 1st time I tried to substibute rice with Quinoa in sweet pongal and I was very curious to see the outcome. Without any compromization the output was amazing. Pongal got disappeared within few minutes from the bowl. Try this recipe it will be a sure win for you. Let get into the recipe now:
Total time: 30 ~ 35 minutes
Cooking: 30 ~ 35 minutes
No of serving: 4 ( below measurements gives approximately 1 lb/ /500g pongal)
Source: www.sarasyummyrecipes.com
Ingredients:
½ cup quinoa / varagu arasi
¼ cup moong dhal
¾ cup ~ 1 cup jaggery as per taste
1 cup milk
1 cup of water + ¼ cup of water
½ tsp cardamom powder
2 tbsp ghee
1 tbsp broken cashews or as needed
1 tsp raisins
Method:
- Wash moong dhal and quinoa in a pressure pan.
- Pour 1 cup of milk and 1 cup of water to the moong dhal quinoa mixture and pressure cook it for 2 whistle in medium heat or you an cook it in open pan till it become soft( same as how we cook rice)
- Open the pan after pressure drops and mash the mixture with spatula.
- In separate pan add jaggery and water to boil to 2 minutes.
- Remove the jaggery syrup and directly filter the syrup to cooked quinoa mixture.
- Mix well and cook it on the medium - low heat. Fry cashew and raisin in 2 tbsps ghee.
- When pongal mixture bubbles up, add Cardamon and fried cashews. Turn of the heat and transfer to serving bowl and serve..
This is amazing! looks so yummy...Maybe i will do the regular chakkara pongal and a little bit of Quinoa Chakkara pongal. Happy Pongal to you!
Simply Mouthwatering and delicious Pongal for this auspicious festival. Hope to prepare this dish using your method very soo.
Deepa
Happy Pongal Saras to u n ur family.Pongal looks extremely delicious..Slurp
yummy sweet/....
Looks Delicious! Is it quinoa = varagu? I never knew Saras! Thanks for sharing!
my favourite grain.. nice variation
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Very healthy and delicious pongal. Happy pongal.
Lovely clicks. So is the dish so tempting too.
Today only I know,quinao is called varagarisi.Very healthy as it has lot of fibre.Happy pongal Saras.
this is such a healthy version...love to try it some day soon.
Healthy sweet..great job. Happy Pongal
Very healthy pongal variety dear
Simply mouthwatering Pongal. Happy Festival to you.
Deepa
wow... Soooo tempting. Happy Pongal 🙂
Very delicious looking pongal. Wish I could taste it.
today's recipe:
http://sanolisrecipies.blogspot.in/2013/01/rass-bora-eastern-indian-delicacy.html
Tempting clicks.Wow , nice idea with quinoa ,can make kids eat.
Great & gorgeous looking recipe. Have a nice day. Happy Pongal & Sankranti.
Happy Pongal.Looks very delicious.
Oh my god, that Pongal looks so ooey-gooey and yummy!!! No wonder it vanished from the table so fast... 😉 Happy Pongal to you and your family!
Regards,
manju
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luv quinoa as pudding ...i too make this ....
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Happy Sankranti.
Healthy n yummy.
Very healthy and beautiful sweet pongal,beautiful twist to our usual rice pongal.Happy pongal wishes to you too.
HAppy Pongal Wishes!! Healthy n Yummy Pongal...looks so divine!
wow very beautiful....well presented n yummy
A very healthy option and Wish u a Very Happy Pongal!
first click is gorgeous dear..