Pongal Varieties

#Pongal : Pongal or #Venpongal is one of the most famous traditional breakfast foods of Tamil Nadu, a southern state of India. It is the most simplest and tastiest comfort food suitable for toddlers to toothless old people. It can be prepared very easily within short time. Pongal definitely finds a special place along with other breakfast foods in marriage feasts.

Pongal is prepared from rice, green gram lentil adding cumin & black pepper. It is a complete food since we get carbohydrates from rice, proteins from lentils and spices helps in digestion.

Usually very very hot pongal is topped liberally with ghee and served with coconut chutney & onion sambar. Every family has their own way of serving pongal. Some used to serve it with coconut chutney & papad [ appalam ]. Some used to relish pongal with sugar and some enjoy with curd. In our family we always used to prepare a special coconut chutney called pongal thuvaiyal [ pongal chutney ] with roasted mustard which is one of the greatest combinations for pongal. Another great combination for pongal is Vadava thuvaiyal [ vengaya vadagam thuvaiyal ] which is prepared from roasted dried onion and coconut.

Pongal can also be prepared using millet, broken wheat and rawa ( sooji ).

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Pongal or Ven pongal	Broken ( dhalia ) wheat pongal	Kuthiraivaali pongal
Buckwheat pongal	Varagu or Varagarisi pongal	Varagarisi kothamalli pongal
Rawa ( sooji ) pongal	Samai or Samai arisi pongal	Thinai or Thinai arisi pongal
Quinoa pongal

Great accompaniment for pongal

Pongal thuvaiyal

Vadavath thuvaiyal

Chutney varieties

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