VEN PONGAL

Ven pongal is the sunday special recipe in our home as it is easy to make. It is given as a prasatham in margazhi month in most of the temples.  
INGREDIENTS 
Raw rice-1 big cup 
Green gram dal/pasi parrupu-1/4 cup 
Ginger-small piece 
Green chillie-2 nos
 Pepper-1tspn 
Jeeragham -1/2tspn 
Toor dal -1/2 tspn
Cashewnut-8no
Ghee -4 spn
Refined oil-2 spn
Curry leaves -little. 
Salt to taste. 
METHOD 
1)Boil rice and pasiparupu with salt in cooker softly. 
2) Divide pepper and jeeragham one part to grind and the other to temper.
3)Grind ginger,chillie,pepper,jeeragham and toordal coarsely in mixie.
4)In a kadai add 1 spn ghee and fry cashewnut keep aside. 
5)Add all the ghee,refined oil, and  temper with the grinded mix and balance pepper and jeeragham and curry leaves.
6)Take the boiled rice,pasiparrupu and smash well. 
7)Add cashew and tempered mixer and stir well. 
8) The special ghee venpongal is ready.

VADAGAM THUVAIYAL:
Vadagam thuvaiyal is made speacialy for venpongal.It suits with idli,dosai and sambar rice also.

INGREDIENTS

Vadagam-1/2 ball

Chillie-5

Coconut grated-1/4 cup

Tamrind-small piece

Salt to taste.

METHOD

1)Fry the vadagam with oil in a kadai.

2)Fry chillie,coconut,tamrind well.

3Grind coarsely all in a mixie with salt.

Vadagham thuvaiyal aroma temp you to eat.