“pongal”

Tamil Nadu Breakfast

Pongal

Soft rice-and-moong-dal porridge tempered with pepper, cumin and ghee — Tamil Nadu's...

⏱ 5 min prep 🍳 25 min cook

Easy

Tamil Nadu Breakfast

Tamil Nadu Pongal Ven Pongal Pepper Ghee Comfort Dish

Rice and yellow moong dal cooked together with generous ghee, black pepper and cumin —...

⏱ 5 min prep 🍳 20 min cook

Easy

Tamil Nadu Dessert

Pal Pongal

Tamil Nadu sweet — Sweet milk pongal — the Pongal festival offering cooked in a new mud pot.

⏱ 15 min prep 🍳 40 min cook

Medium

Tamil Nadu Dessert

Sakkarai Pongal

Tamil Nadu sweet — The sacred Pongal offering — sweet rice and dal cooked with jaggery...

⏱ 15 min prep 🍳 40 min cook

Medium

Tamil Nadu Lunch

Ven Pongal Rice

Classic Tamil Nadu Pongal — ven pongal mix of rice and moong dal flavoured rice for...

⏱ 15 min prep 🍳 30 min cook

Easy

Tamil Nadu Dessert

Iyengar Kovil Prasadam Pongal

Tamil Brahmin / Iyengar recipe — The sacred temple pongal — rich with ghee, cashews,...

⏱ 20 min prep 🍳 30 min cook

Medium

Karnataka Lunch

Huggi Annam

Classic Karnataka rice dish — huggi annam.

⏱ 20 min prep 🍳 25 min cook

Medium

Tamil Nadu Lunch

Chidambaram Gotsu

Thick tamarind-brinjal side dish from Chidambaram — the only accompaniment for...

⏱ 10 min prep 🍳 30 min cook

Easy

Karnataka Dessert

Sihi Pongal

Classic Karnataka sweet — sihi pongal made with sweet pongal Karnataka.

⏱ 20 min prep 🍳 40 min cook

Medium

Tamil Nadu Snack

Ellu Mittai

Tamil Nadu snack — Sesame chikki — Pongal and Karthigai sweet.

⏱ 15 min prep 🍳 25 min cook

Easy

Tamil Nadu Dessert

Karuppatti Pongal

Tamil Nadu dessert — Palm jaggery pongal — richer and more aromatic than white sugar pongal.

⏱ 15 min prep 🍳 25 min cook

Easy