SweetPongal

SweetPongal: A perfect lunch should have atleast one sweet (diabetes patient try the same with  sugar free ingredient). Ingredients: Rice - 1 cup Channa Dhal - 1 handful Jaggery - 1/2 cup Cardmom Powder - 1 tsp Dry grapes / kismis - 1 handful (quantity can vary as per your taste) Cashewnuts - 5 to 6 Ghee - 2 tbsp Poppy Seeds - 2 tsp Coconut - 1/2 Method: Sweet Pongal/Chakra Pongal Cook rice and channa dhal (kadale bele) for 4 whistles Add...

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Pongal - New Year

Every year Pongal is celebrated on 13th, 14th and 15th of January. It is also considered as a New Year for Tamilians (especially for harvesting group). The people would take out the paddy crops and make it as rice. 13-Jan is celebrated as Bhoogi Pongal. In Andhra, people collect almost all waste materials from their entire area and burn all of them. They call that as "Bhoogimantalu". 14-Jan is celebrated as Surya Pongal. People get up early in the morning prepare different dishes. Draw Surya(sun) and Chandra(Moon) and keep all the...

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