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Huggi (Kara Pongal) Recipe in Udupi Style
Huggi (kara pongal) is a special dish prepared during Dhanur Maasa in Sri Krishna Matt Udupi. Dhanur maasa is a period when sun transits through sagittarius, it is usually observed during Dec 16th, 17th to Jan 14th,15th. All the ceremonies that are celebrated during this period will have huggi(kara pongal) as default dish in the feast. Huggi is usually paired with tangy and spicy tamarind gojju and it turns the plain, semi solid rice-lentil gruel in to delicious, mouth watering dish of the day. Today I will brief both huggi and tamarind gojju recipe.
Huggi (Kara Pongal) Recipe in Udupi Style
Ingredients
Huggi(kara pongal) recipe ingredients
- Raw rice- 1/2 cup
- Split green gram/moong dal- 1/2 cup
- Cinnamon- 2" piece
- Cloves- 6 nos.
- Cardamom- 2 nos.
- Turmeric powder- 1/4 teaspoon
- Grated coconut- 1/2 cup
- Salt- 1 teaspoon adjust to taste
Tamarind gojju ingredients
- Tamrind- Big Lemon sized
- Jaggery- Medium mango sized
- Green chillies- 3 nos.
- Ginger- 2" piece
- Salt- 1 teaspoon adjust to taste
Seasoning ingredeints
- Mustard seeds- 1/2 teaspoon
- Curry leaves- few
- Cooking oil- 1 teaspoon
Instructions
Preparation
- Deseed cardamoms and powder them finely. Slit green chillies and chop ginger finely.
- Soak tamarind in a cup of water for about 15 minutes, extract thick juice and discard the residue. Keep it aside.
Method
- Mix rice and split green gram lentil together. Wash and drain the water. Add 3 cups of water to it and let it cook on medium flame.
- When rice, lentil is half cooked, add cinnamon, cloves, cardamom powder, turmeric powder and salt.
- Keep on stirring until the water dries off and then add grated coconut. Mix well.
Tamarind gojju preparation
- Add thick tamarind extract, jaggery, slit green chillies, ginger and salt in to a vessel. Let it boil in medium flame.Once the tamarind gojju thickens and becomes like syrup, switch off the flame.
- Heat a seasoning pan adding oil, mustard seeds and curry leaves. When mustard seeds splutter
- add seasoning to tamarind gojju.Tamarind gojju is ready.
- Serve Huggi (kara pongal) with tamarind gojju/huli gojju and enjoy it's yummy taste.
Note:
- As huggi is plain without any spiciness, tamarind gojju should be tangy, sweet and spicy. So add jaggery and green chillies as recommended.
- Once the rice and lentil gets cooked, keep stirring to avoid sticking at the bottom.
- The consistency of huggi should be mushy, so add more water if needed.
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