Vegetable pongal

Vegetable Pongal

Ingredient:
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1. Rice - 400 gms
2. moong dhal - 200 gms
3. carrot -1
4. beans -3
5. peas -50 gms
6. bellary onion -1
7. green chillies - 2
8. tomato - 1
9. curry leaves - a few
10. pepper - 2 tsps
11. jeera - 2 tsps
12. ginger - 1 small piece
13. cashew nuts - 25 gms
14. asafoetida - 1/2 tsp
15. refined oil - 2 tbsps
16. ghee - 2 tbs 1
7. salt to taste

Preparation Method:
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1. Wash the rice and dhal and pressure cook adding enough water.

2. Heat the kadai with 1 tsp of oil,fry the finely chopped onion till golden brown.

3. Next add the grated carrot and chopped beans fry for sometime.

4. Add peas(optional),salt and fry for a few more minutes.

5. Cook the vegetable add finally add chopped tomato and stir it until it is cooked.

6. Now add this cooked vegetable to the boiled pongal. 7. Finally Heat the small kadai with ghee and fry cashew nuts and put it on the pongal.

8. Add extra oil on kadai put pepper , jeera,chopped ginger,green chilly, asafoetida and fry it for few mins,add it on the pongal.

9. serve hot vegetable pongal with the chutney of your choice, i made tomato curry for it.