Khara Pongal Temple Style

Both versions of pongal are offered to godess durga lakshmi during navratri varalakshmi puja and even on regular days. Slight variations from conventional ven pongal cooking will give us the devine taste of temple style pongal.

Ven Pongal Prasadam Tasted First Time For The Month Of Margazhi

Both these dishes share similar ingredients list and procedure but one is sweet version and the other is savory.

Khara pongal temple style. A lot of restaurants serve this pongal as ven pongal or khara pongal but not many come close to the color texture and taste of the original tirupati pongal. Khara pongal is one the simplest and comfort breakfast recipe in south india. Temple style khara pongal healthy and tasty khara pongal recipe.

Ven pongal or khara pongal is the name given to the savory version. The temple prasad was just true delicacy and having had my first taste of pongal as tirupati pongal i am kind of spoiled by that. Pongal is prepared mainly with split moong dal and rice.

But traditionally served with coconut chutney or sambar. Usually we just have ven pongal plain and thats how we like it. I accommodate sweet pongal and khara pongal in sankranti feast every year since 2007.

Khara pongal is a spicy version of pongal there are 2 different methods used for making spicy version of pongal one is ven pongal other is khara pongal. Karnataka milk federation kmf on thursday released five types of nandini ayurvedic milk products and three types of millet products they are tulasi milk ashwagandha milk pepper milk clove milk a.

Sweet and spicy are the 2 different versions of pongal that are mainly seen. The koil pongal served in the temple kovil has an unique taste and flavor and most of us love the devine taste of this pongal. It is offered to the gods or diety as naivedyam not only in south indian homes but also in temples during regular pooja auspicious days festivals.

Durga ji suggests to have pongal with either onion gothsu or kathirikai gothsu or coconut chutney or idli sambar or kalyana gothsu. The rice has to be cooked in such a way that it should be mushy. Method to make khara pongal mix both rice and dal wash and pressure cook adding salt 2 1 2 3 cups of water for 4 5 whistles i used old rice so added 3 cups of water.

Drizzling with ghee divine tasting sweet pongal is one of my favourite and mild pepper spicy cumin flavored khara pongal accompany it very well.