Happy Pongal -Time to share a Delightful Recipe

-


Wishing everyone a Happy Pongal, Happy Makar Sankranthi, Happy Bihu to all my friends the world over.

 Significance of Pongal
People celebrating Pongal should be aware of the meaning & significance of the important rituals associated with this harvest festival. Pongal or Thai Pongal is also called Makara Sankaranthi, since it is celebrated on the first day of Thai when the Sun enters the Makara Rasi (Capricornus). This signals the end of winter and the onset of spring throughout the northern hemisphere. For the next six months, the days are longer and warmer.
One of the reasons why i love the festivals are the gastronomical delights that get churned out from Chinni's Corner. For those of you who are first time reader Chinni is the nickname for my mom Vijaya who cooks up some lovely food. I capture the essence of it all in the form of photographs and words, weaving together simple recipes that you can all try at home. Todays Recipe is the Mixed Vegetable Sambar. It is very simple to make Sambar if you follow these easy steps
Heat Cooking Oil in a Frying Pan with Mustard. Allow the Mustard to splutter then add chopped vegetables(Can be any vegetables of your own choice)-Carrot,Pumpkin,Capsicum,Beans,Potato, Brinjal,Tomatoes. Allow the vegetables to cook for some time.

Add a pinch of salt

Add a Teespoonful of Sambar Powder

Add Dhaniya Powder, Add Red Chilly Powder


Add a few Green Chillies
\
Add a little bit of sugar


Stir all ingredients well and allow to cook for some time.


Add Tamarind Water to the cooked vegetables mixture



Add Cooked Dal to this Mixture



Add Salt To Taste


Hot Delicious Sambar ready to served with Rice.


Wishing everyone the world over a Very Happy Pongal. A Celebration like this is never really complete without the customary and traditional Sweet Pongal.


and a customary offering to the Gods before we ourselves settle into a sumptuous feast well made.



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Mango Diaries-Page Four-Times of Covid and a Tribute to Unknown Soldiers

-
Image
  Mango Diaries continues to evolve and surprise me with its sweetness and ability to charm its audience. I guess more than anything its the positive intent and inspirational real life stories that causes that bell to ring. Anyways in this edition of Mango Diaries, I seek to focus on how I managed to steer this negative mind of mind to something very positive and cheerful. It goes back to the times of Covid-1st Wave, initially the dark times accompanied by an eerie stone like silence and nothing but the shrill and occasional sound of the passing Ambulance could be heard. It was at the same time I had also lost my beloved father. Barely had i consigned my fathers mortal remains to the flames, within the next few days, I found myself in the ICU ward of a Hospital battling Covid myself. Such tough times, no one was allowed to visit me, surrounded by other patients, it was extremely depressing. It had come to an extent where I even contemplated running away from the hospital but guess ...
Read more

How to Earn Money By Blogging, Get your basics right

-
Image
On a daily basis I keep seeing a number of blogs online and have been impressed by a vast majority of them while a few leave that sour feeling . If you search on Google with the keywords " How To Blog" you will come across a huge number of links that will give you access to a plenty of literature on how you could blog and how you can actually make a fortune by blogging. My take on blogging is that it is a very simple art from with no rocket science behind it. It is so simple that even a novice can take to it without any training . However there are a few prerequisites for blogging. You would need a good command over the language that you are blogging in. Here I am not talking about rich vocabulary but simple sentences without any grammatical/spelling errors. No Flowery language is required, rather easy to understand and comprehend language will do. You would need lots of patience to get to the top. Blogging is not a reach the summit types with your first blog. It i...
Read more

An Ode to The City of Joy and My Dear Departed Father 1.0

-
Image
  As I try to revive my  tryst with blogging, I ponder over what could be the best way to pen a few words. While blogging might be out of vogue, and out of fashion, I realize that my love for words will continue unabated. I commit to writing more, and loving each bit of it, the best way of doing a Sri Ganesh is to write an ode to the City of Joy and my dear departed father, both inseparable parts of me. In fact my late father Shri K. Subramanian was a true Bengali, even his last days his eyes would light up and shine bright at the mention of Kolkata or a Bengal Sweet Delicacy. When he was into his last few days, and it became increasingly difficult for us to make him have his food, my wife Hema asked him if he would like to have Mishti Doi, immediately the hundred watts bulb in the pupil of his eyes lit up and he repeated "Mishti Doi, Mishti Doi". I would want to admit a hard truth here. In the early days of his passing away, I was downcast, depressed, buckets into tears, my ...
Read more