About Pongal
Pongal is a comforting dish of rice and yellow moong dal cooked together until soft, then finished with ghee, black pepper, cumin, ginger and curry leaves. It gives its name to the Tamil harvest festival.
Regional versions
Ven pongal is the savory version eaten for breakfast. Sakkarai pongal is sweet, made with jaggery, cashews and cardamom, and is cooked for the festival and at temples.
What to order with it
Ven pongal goes with sambar, coconut chutney and a medu vada. Restaurants often serve it only at breakfast or on weekends, so check ahead.
On the menu: 10 places
Hillsborough County, NH
Middlesex County, MA
Worcester County, MA
Usually served: 11 more
We have not seen these menus yet, but places like these normally make Pongal. Call to check.
How this list is made
We started from public records, OpenStreetMap and Overture Maps, searched town by town for places those records miss, and read each restaurant's menu from its website or online ordering page. Places whose opening hours we could not confirm recently say so, and we check them again every month. Dishes marked "on the menu" come from the restaurant's own website or ordering page. "Usually served" is our best guess from the style of the place, so call ahead if you have your heart set on it.
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