Healthy Greens Pongal

Idly, dosa, pongal, vada!!!! This is the standard breakfast menu in any South Indian restaurant. All the four are so inevitable. Its pretty much the same at home as well but for more and more varieties and twists added to it since all three at home are foodies ;)

Greens as it needs no introduction has loads and loads of good deeds to its profile. So adding it to any dish would automatically make it super healthy. :)

Hence this twist of keerai and other spices along with ginger garlic to the pongal makes the ever boring pongal into a very interesting aromatic morning breakfast :)

I used Arai keerai. But you can try your hand on using the other greens varieties too.

Ingredients:

Arai Keerai or Mulai keerai(Amaranth greens) - 1/2 bunch
Raw rice - 1 cup
Moong Dhall - 1/3 cup
Water - 5 cups
Cinnamon - 1/2 inch piece
Cardamom - 2
Cloves - 2
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp
Onion - 1
Pepper - 1/2 tsp
Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
Ghee - 2 tblsp

Method:

In a bowl wash rice and dhall together and add 5 cups of water to it.

In a frying pan add ghee and fry cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, ginger garlic paste, onion and greens for 5 mins. Then add the fried ingredients to the rice and dhall mixture.

Powder the pepper and cumin together into a coarsely. Add this to the mixture along with salt.

Now cook the contents in the cooker for 4 whistles. Finally garnish with ghee fried cashews.

Healthy greens pongal is ready to eat.

Serve hot with coconut chutney.

Enjoy the healthy and yummy south Indian breakfast :)

Written by: Nithya
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