Pongal with millets and traditional rice varieties

Pongal with millets and traditional rice varieties

Venpongal and sakkara pongal made with traditional rice varieties such as thooyamalli, karuppu kavuni, iluppaipoo samba and thinai | Photo Credit: PERIASAMY M What are the best traditional rice and millet varieties to make pongal with? We ask the experts. Sreedevi Lakshmikutty of social enterprise Bio Basics offers us a tasting of sweet and venpongal […]

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Pongal with millets and traditional rice varieties

Pongal with millets and traditional rice varieties

Venpongal and sakkara pongal made with traditional rice varieties such as thooyamalli, karuppu kavuni, iluppaipoo samba and thinai | Photo Credit: PERIASAMY M What are the best traditional rice and millet varieties to make pongal with? We ask the experts. Sreedevi Lakshmikutty of social enterprise Bio Basics offers us a tasting of sweet and venpongal […]

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Move over bucket biriyani. In Chennai, ‘bucket Pongal’ makes a debut

Move over bucket biriyani. In Chennai, ‘bucket Pongal’ makes a debut

Bucket Pongal, at a Chennai eatery | Photo Credit: Johan Sathyadas Why should non-vegetarians have all the fun? In Chennai, where biryani is a passion, restaurants are popular for delivering it in a bucket, a simple, economic and effective way to package about eight servings. Now, bucket pongal is here, courtesy Adyar-based eatery Madras Pongal, […]

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