Pongal festive plates...Deluge in the rich South Indian culinary

The plates of South Indian cuisine is relished during the harvest festival. With the sounds of Pongal-o-Pongal comes the flavor of fried cashew nuts, dry fruits and ghee. Your mouth starts watering and so does your hands long to take some from the hot earthen pot to taste the ‘Sakarai Pongal’. The South Indian delights can really make you go mad in its delectable taste.

Just two more days to go! Muddled up with various recipes and couldn’t pick which one will work out? Well, here I have listed some top 5 must-cook recipes for this Pongal.

Keep it simple but filling!

Breakfast

Three dishes can make your Pongal festive breakfast a full-filling one. Here we go!

Sweet Pongal

Tasty sweet pongal that brings the real festive feel

It is the main recipe for Pongal and so start with it as it needs more attention for the preparation process.

-Moong dal

-Raw Rice

-Cashew nuts

-Jaggery

-Cardamom

-Raisins

-Ghee

Method:

-Fry the rice and moong dal until it becomes a little hot and the color changes to light brown

-Add water and boil both in a pressure cooker

-Prepare the jaggery and if you have mashed the cardamom add along to it

-Put the boiled rice and dal to it and mix it well

-Put ghee to fry the cashew nuts and raisins

-Add to the mixture and mix it

Ven Pongal

The next pongal variety is Ven pongal or Rava pongal, this consists of enough spice. For breakfast this will be one of the main ingredients to prepare and for the side dish you can prepare coconut chutney and sambhar.

Add some spice to your sweetest moments

Medhu Vada

South India’s best recipe is medhu vada or urad dhal vada! Along with the ven pongal, it tastes yummy and all the houses will never miss to prepare this recipe for Pongal. You can prepare three types of medhu vada like:

-Sambhar vada

-Rasa Vada

-Curd Vada

Brunch

For the afternoon meals, instead of making boiled rice with sambhar and poriya, you can cook some variety rice like:

-Lemon rice

-Tamarind rice

-Coconut rice

If you want a complete South Indian meal delight, then you can prepare this lunch combo that taste yummy!

-Mochai Kottai kuzhambu

-Carrot poriyal or potato fry

-Tomato rasam

-Special sweet (You can either serve the sakarai pongal or go for some other ghee sweets like mysore pak, jellabi, etc.)

-Thayir sadham

-Payasam

-Butter milk

An amazing festive feast for Pongal

Evening snack

For the evening snack you can prepare poli as it is exclusively prepared for Pongal festival. Never miss to cook this and delight you guests in the evening time.

Soft and yummy Poli for delightful evening

Dinner

For the dinner, it’s always best to have some light dishes. Better have a light recipes like:

-Idly and chutney

Make the dinner time simple and filling

You need extra hands to prepare everything on one day, but if you arrange for a Catering Service, your job gets easy. All you need to do is to treat you guests, spend time with them, go for special ceremonies like jallikattu etc. Let his Pongal treat you with mouth-watering recipes!

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