Huggi

Rice Huggi

1. Rice – 1 cup
2. Split moong dal  – 1/2 cup
3. Pepper corns – 1 tsp crushed
4. Jeera  – 1 to 1/2 tsp crushed
5. Green chillies – 1-2
6. Coconut – 1tbsp
7. Mustard – 1 tsp
8. Hing – 1tsp
9. Curry leaves – 1 sprig
10. Ghee  1 tbsp & 2 tsp for garnish
11. Cashew bits – 8 to 10 nos
12. Water  3 cups

Method:-

• Wash rice and moong dal together and keep aside.
• Heat a cooker pan with  1 tbsp ghee and fry cashew bits. In the same ghee splutter mustard,then add slit green chillies,crushed jeera and pepper corns and curry leaves.
• Add the washed rice and dal saute for a while to get along with the seasoning.
• Now add water and salt .Close lid of the cooker and cook for 3 whistles.
• Wait for the cooker to cool by its own.When the steam is fully gone remove lid and garnish with the grated coconut and the remaining 2 tsp ghee and mix very well
• Serve with chutney

 Millet Huggi:-
Here is huggi with varai/varagu or kodo millet.

Ingredients :-
For 1/2 cup of millet , 2  to 2 1/2 cups of water should be added to cook it till soft. Rest of the recipe is as given above for rice huggi.

Notes :-

1. If you want the huggi to be mushy can add excess water and cook.
2. Can add turmeric if preferred.
3. Oil can be substituted for ghee.But this is normally prepared with ghee only.