Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Healthy Porridge with Greens and Legumes/Ravva Pongal with Greens and an Award

Today I am presenting a healthy pongal/porridge recipe with multiple vegetables,legumes and semolina.It's very quick,simple and easy to make.This nutritious porridge can be taken for breakfast, lunch or dinner.It's a complete meal.Kids love this too.

Let's start making this healthy dish--------------------

                               

Main Ingredients :
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Semolina/Cracked Wheat Ravva............................1cup
Water/Veg.Broth..................................................4cups
Amaranth Leaves.................................................1/2cup
Grated Carrot......................................................1/2cup
Green Beans....................................................... 1/2cup
Cilantro...............................................................1/2cup
Onion..................................................................1/2cup
Cooked Toor Daal Paste/Powdered ToorDaal.........1/4cup

Seasoning Ingredients :
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Olive Oil................................................2tsp
Mustard Seeds.......................................1tsp
Cumin Seeds..........................................1tsp
Green Chilly............................................2
Ginger....................................................1inch
Garlic.....................................................1clove
Pepper Powder......................................1tsp
Coriander Powder..................................2tsp
Salt........................................................to taste

Preparation :
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Place a pan/vessel on the stove on medium heat.Add oil , mustard seeds and cumin seeds.Once the seeds start spluttering add green chilly pieces.

                                  

Now add amaranth leaves(as these leaves are not available all the time,when available I buy more and wash it ,cut it and freeze it) and stir well.Let cook for a minute.
                                    

Now add green beans stir well and later add cilantro(I made cilantro paste with chillies and lemon juice & froze it so I added cilantro cubes) .You can add fresh cilantro.Let it cook for a minute.

                                          

Now add grated carrot to the other vegetables and stir well.

                                          

Now add diced onions and stir.While this is cooking cut ginger and garlic into small pieces.

                                          

Now add cut ginger and garlic to the pan of veggies.cook for a minute.

                                         

Now add 4 cups of vegetable broth or water to the vegetable mix.

                                                 
                                   

Add little turmeric and salt(adjust salt accordingly as the broth has salt too) to the broth.

                                         

Once the contents of the pan start boiling well ,I added 1/4 cup of powdered toordaal and let it cook for 3 minutes(I powdered it so that it will be easy to cook instead of pressure cooking and mashing).

                                         

Now add coriander powder and mix well.While this is cooking dry roast the semolina.

                                         

Finally add the semolina and cook for 3 more minutes covered.Now add the pepper powder and mix well.

                                      

Yummy Ravva Pongal with Greens is ready to eat.Serve it hot.You can eat it as is.For kids add little ghee and serve.

                                         

Note :
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1) I added cilantro paste so it made my pongal look green.If you use fresh cilantro your pongal/porridge would be in cream color.

2)You can use spinach instead of amaranth leaves.You can add many other greens and vegetables too.

3)You can use cracked wheat instead of semolina.

4)If you add more vegetables adjust broth/water accordingly.

Try this healthy recipe and let me know how you like it.


                                                                      Sunshine Award

This is the first award my blog received and feels nice to know that my recipes are being appreciated and liked by everyone . Jagruti from Joy of Cooking has passed me this lovely award.I thank her for sharing this beautiful award with me.Thank you Jagruti for your encouraging words and wish you many more awards like this.I would like to share this happiness with few more blog-pals that I have come across in this journey.


These are the fellow bloggers with whom I would like to share this award------------

Nithu , Gita , Priya , Susan , Rachel , Suma , Divya , ShamaNagarajan , Mahimaa , Bharathy, Padhu , Love2Cook , SE , Daisy Blue , SriLekha .The reason that I share this with them is that I like the way they present their dishes and the simplicity with which they explain them.All these blog-pals have been very encouraging and inspiring to me.

These Award Winners have to do the following :

1) Use the logo within your post .

2) Pass on to atleast 12 other bloggers .

3)Add a link to the nominees in your post.

4) Let the nominees know of their award

5) Share the love and link to the friend, who has passed this award to you.


                                                               Happy Blogging Everyone

35 comments:

  1. Wow! what a lovely presentation Kiran...this is my favourite Dear..

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  2. This looks lovely Kiran and sounds healthy

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  3. Fantastic dish and looks delicious!! an award waiting for you at my place, plz come and collect it!!

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  4. Dear Jagruti,Thank you for the compliments.Wow an award that's exciting.Thank you.

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  5. Hi Kiran,,
    Thanks for your comments at my blog....
    love the green ravva pongal,,looks yummy...

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  6. Thanks for dropping by. I love your step by step pics. For the reposting for the whole grains event. You will have to make a new post with links to all your old entries you would like to send. Also link to my event announcement page and email me all the links. Let me know if you need more info.

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  7. Veg broth simmered ravva pongal, sounds terrific to me...must have been very aromatic as well...gonna try this real soon:)

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  8. This is such a healthy n delicious recipe Kiran:)

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  9. Dear Malar ,it really was aromatic and yummy.

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  10. Kiran, yummy and healthy recipe, a recipe that I will surely try. And, thank you dear very much for the award. It really feels proud to know that you feel this way. I am elated and filled with more energy to post more great recipes. Love you dear.

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  11. Priya ,You are welcome.Wish you many more awards.

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  12. Dear Kiran, Thank you so much for sharing the award with me...I'l soon post it in my blog..

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  13. Hi Kiran, Thanks for sharing the lovely award with me!

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  14. Hi dear Kiran...U've made a healthy porridge there! Though I'm not a porridge fan, I'm drooling over! hehe...;)

    Thanks for the passing me the lovely award ya! Really appreciate ur thoughts!!! ;)

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  15. Another Lovely healthy Dish from you, Kiran!! :)
    Thanks for pasing on the award to me!..so sweet of you!
    Happy Blogging! :)

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  16. Dear Love2Cook,you ar welcome.

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  17. Dear Bharathy,Thank you and welcome.

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  18. Dear Kiran, more awards waiting for you at my blog..please accept the awards Dear:-)

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  19. Dear Nithu,One more award!Thank you.

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  20. Wow such a healthy and tasty porridge dear....looks delicious. Congrats on all your well deserved awards and thank you so much for passing it to me dear...:)

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  21. Really a very healthy recipe! congrats on your awards and thanks for remembering me.. Kiran

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  22. Kiran,

    Rava pongal looks really good, healthy too, congrats on award.

    Regarding the bread it tastes more like baked poori than papad.

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  23. Dear Swathi, thank you for visiting my blog.

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  24. Kirangaru, Thanks for this healthy dish. I use cracked wheat (godhuma nooka & not rava) to make bisibelebhath and pongals. Have you tried that?
    I think I left a message earlier but don't see it here regarding the award. Thanks for sharing it with me.

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  25. Dear Suma,Cracked wheat sure is a healthier option.I too like to use it in many recipes,when I run out of it ,I use sooji rava.You are very welcome for the award.

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