Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, kodo millet pongal. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

An usual pongal with different taste because of Varagu Arisi/Kodo Millet. Kodo Millet in Tamil known as Varagu Arisi, is a healthy rice variety. Millet Pongal is a Nutritious, Simple and Savory one pot recipe served as a breakfast or dinner.

Kodo Millet Pongal is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Kodo Millet Pongal is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have kodo millet pongal using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Kodo Millet Pongal:

1. Take 1 cup kodo millet, washed and soaked for 15 mins
2. Make ready 1/2 cup moong dal, washed and soaked for 15 mins
3. Make ready 4 cups water
4. Take 1 tbsp ginger, grated
5. Prepare 2 tsp black peppercorns
6. Prepare 2 green chillies
7. Get 1 tbsp ghee
8. Make ready 1 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
9. Prepare 1/4 cup raw cashews
10. Prepare leaves few curry
11. Prepare to taste salt

Note - You can substitute kodo millet with little millet (samai) or. Varagu Pongal Recipe or Varagarisi Ven Pongal is a very healthy and tasty for breakfast. I often make varagu pongal with coconut chutney and tiffin sambar and Varagu Arisi Pongal Recipe - Ingredients. Very recently i started making upma & pongal varieties using millets.

Instructions to make Kodo Millet Pongal:

1. Wash and soak the millet and moong dal for 15 mins.
2. In a pressure cooker,add the soaked millet,dal,ginger,green chillies,peppercorns and salt with 4 cups of water. Pressure cook for 3 whistles and allow to naturally release the pressure
3. Once the millet and dal are cooked, they should have a slightly runny, creamy consistency. Stir with a ladle, mashing the millet and dal a bit, and add a little more water if needed to get to this consistency. If you add more water, do it over medium heat so the rice warms through.
4. Make the tempering by heating the ghee in a skillet. Add the cumin seeds, curry leaves and stir for a minute.Add the nuts and stir until lightly golden.
5. Add the tempering to the cooked millet and lentils. Mix well.Serve hot with coconut chutney and sambhar.

I tried Ven pongal using Varagu arisi( Kodo millet in English,Koden/Kodra in Hindi,Harka in Kannada,Arikelu in Telugu. I have used Varagu (Kodo millet) to make this Pongal. The recipe is very simple and you can opt this for a easy breakfast. We simply loved this Pongal than our regular Kara Pongal. Millet pongal recipe - sharing another millet recipe that is filling, healthy and protein rich.

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