Varagu Pongal with Fresh Fruits / Kodo Millet Fruits Pongal
Varagu Pongal with Fresh Fruits / Kodo Millet Fruits Pongal

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, varagu pongal with fresh fruits / kodo millet fruits pongal. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Varagu Pongal Recipe or Varagarisi Ven Pongal is a very healthy and tasty for breakfast. I often make varagu pongal with coconut chutney and tiffin sambar and the combo is so good. This is easy and quick to make for breakfast that you can just make it in a jiffy and serve it.

Varagu Pongal with Fresh Fruits / Kodo Millet Fruits Pongal is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Varagu Pongal with Fresh Fruits / Kodo Millet Fruits Pongal is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have varagu pongal with fresh fruits / kodo millet fruits pongal using 15 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Varagu Pongal with Fresh Fruits / Kodo Millet Fruits Pongal:
  1. Make ready 1 cup Varagu arisi -
  2. Get 1/4 cup Moong dal -
  3. Get 1 cup Milk
  4. Get 1 cup Water
  5. Prepare 2 pinch Salt
  6. Make ready As needed Sugar
  7. Make ready As needed Raisins and cashew nuts
  8. Make ready 1 tsp Ghee
  9. Get 1/2 tsp Cardamom powder
  10. Prepare As needed Banana
  11. Prepare As needed Fruits (of your choice), I used :
  12. Get 2 Apple
  13. Make ready As needed Grapes
  14. Make ready As needed Pomegranates
  15. Take 1 Orange

I tried Ven pongal using Varagu arisi( Kodo millet in English,Koden/Kodra in Hindi,Harka in Kannada,Arikelu in Telugu,Koovaragu in Malayalam- Source-Wikipedia). Super delicious and healthy millets pongal which taste really yummy. An alternative for your regular pongal. Try this millet one for this pongal.

Instructions to make Varagu Pongal with Fresh Fruits / Kodo Millet Fruits Pongal:
  1. Wash varagu arisi thoroughly 4 times and keep aside. - Wash moong dal and keep aside. - Boil milk and water.. In a cooker or cooker pan, dry roast moong dal till golden brown and a nice aroma comes.
  2. In a cooker or cooker pan, dry roast moong dal till golden brown and a nice aroma comes. - - Pour into it the boiling milk and water. - - Add varagu arisi. - - Add salt and pressure cook for 4 whistles. - When the pressure in the cooker subsides mix sugar, cardamom powder and fruits to the pongal. - In a pan heat ghee and fry cashew nuts and raisins and add as garnish.
  3. Notes : Varagu arisi contains a lot of impurities, so make sure you wash it at least 4 times. - If you like the fruits crunchy then add them at the end. - If you want the apples a little tender then sauté for 2 minutes and add them to the pongal. - Do not sauté banana and orange.

Since pongal is around the corner, i was thinking what new pongal to make for this year. I had little kodo millet sitting in the pantry for quite sometime. Millet's provides so many health benefits to us compared to regular rice. Hence we can replace rice with Millet's wherever possible. I have used Varagu (Kodo millet) to make this Pongal.

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