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Rawa Pongal

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Easy to prepare and a great South Indian dish. It has a wonderful taste of ginger and pepper dash..




Ingredients :
— Upma Rawa/ Semolina - 1 cup
— Moong dal - 1 cup
— Peppercons / Pepper powder
— Ginger - 2 inches 
— Green chillies - 4-5
— Curry leaves
— Salt
— Water - 5 cups
— Oil
— Ghee
— Jeera - 1 tsp 
— Asafoetida / hing
— Cashews - 1/4 cup

Recipe :

1. Boil 5 cups of water . When it starts boiling, add moong dal and grate 1 inch ginger. 
2. When moong dal is completely soft cooked, add salt and upma rawa. Let the rawa be cooked.
3. In a tadka pan, add ghee and oil. When oil is hot, add jeera, slit green chillies, chopped or grated ginger and curry leaves. Add cashews and hing, tadka is ready. 
** I used pepper powder but peppercorns are very good to go too. 
4. Add this to the cooked rawa and mix. Check for spices. 

Hot rawa pongal is ready to eat. 
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