
Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, quinoa pongal. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Quinoa pongal is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Quinoa pongal is something that I have loved my whole life.
This quinoa pongal with gotsu is a slightly healthier alternative to the classic pongal that is usually made on this festival with rice. Happy Pongal / Sankranti to all who celebrate!! Quinoa is gluten-free, easy to digest, and easy to cook.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have quinoa pongal using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Quinoa pongal:
- Take 1⁄2 cup quinoa
- Make ready 1⁄4 cup moong dal
- Get 3 tbsp ghee
- Prepare 1 tsp cumin seeds
- Take 1⁄2 tsp peppercorns
- Prepare 6 cashews
- Prepare 1 green chilli
- Take 1 inch ginger
- Get 1 strand curry leaves
- Prepare 1 tsp salt
- Prepare 2 cups water
Quinoa Pongal a Healthy pongal for all those healthy freaks. Every South Indian home will definitely prepare khara pongal atleast once a week, pongal is prepared always with rice and moongdal, later we usually spice them with peppercorns,curryleaves. How to make quinoa ven pongal recipe: Rinse quinoa first and set aside. Dry roast dal until golden then add quinoa to it.
Steps to make Quinoa pongal:
- Rinse quinoa and moong dal.
- Set the Instant pot in saute mode and add 1tbsp ghee. Roast the quinoa and moong dal for few minutes.
- Next add water and salt. Mix it well.
- Cancel the saute mode and close the instant pot. Cook the Pongal at pressure cook mode for 5 minutes, and after the cooking is done, allow the pressure to release naturally.
- Now mix it. Ven Pongal has to soft and mushy.
- In a kadhai, add ghee. Then add cumin seeds, peppercorns, finely chopped green Chilli, chopped ginger, cashews. Finally, add curry leaves.
- Transfer this tempering to the Pongal along with some ghee.
- Serve the hot Pongal with sambar or chutney.
Cook covered in low flame until mushy. Pongal is a South-Indian breakfast traditionally made with rice and lentils. It is one of those breakfast that is of the savory type. For Pongal I wanted it to be much softer, so I cooked it a little longer. Mix the roasted moong daal with quinoa,add salt and turmeric.
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