Tamil New year Dinner with Mango Pachadi

Yesterday, 14th April was our Tamil New Year. We celebrated in traditional way of doing "Kani Paarthal" in the morning and in the evening after my Hubby came from the work we have done our pooja and had our dinner with Traditional food recipes Idli, Sambar, Chutney, Vadai n Payasam, Mango Pachadi and fruits. In my Mom's place, they celebrated well the New Year in traditional way.

My amma cooked lot of traditional food recipes for their lunch as i said the recipes on my yesterday's post. It made me mouthwatering, when i was hearing the recipes name from my amma yesterday telling over phone. I usually make paruppu vadai , cos my Hubby likes it very much than medhu vadai. But, I like Methu Vadai and Thayir/Dahi Vadai and all kinds of vadais esp my amma's aama vadai it taste good n crispy n yummy. I never tried "aama vadai" myself , i tasted only my amma making aama vadai that will taste really good with lot of taste she is having good hand in aama vadai.

My amma is always good in cooking traditional food recipes, i like all her foods if my amma make urundai ( make balls and feed us) or feeding ( ootti vidarathu) the food it will taste soooo good i will have lot of food while having like that always taste like Amrutham for me. Whenever i visit India or somebody coming from India , i always ask my amma to make murukku for me and to my Hubby everybody can buy from shop it's soo cheap and no hard work but can't compare with my amma's murukku with lot of effort she puts n making for us and with affection. My Hubby likes my amma's murukku very much, she makes very crispy it will melts like mysore paak.

In my MIL' home they have done the prayer made Sweet and traditional food for dinner. Today am gonna post my Sago n Vermicelli Payasam, Paruppu Vadai and MIL's Idli n Sambar, Semiya Payasam, Mango Pachadi. Me n My Hubby likes Mango Pachadi from my MIL's cooking, she cooks soo simple but it will taste good with correct sweet. Today, i have posted only Paal Payasam later will post all the below recipes one by one soon.

Idli, Sambar, Coconut Chutney, Kara Chutney and Idli Podi

Mangai Pachadi

Paruppu Vadai/Masala Vadai 

Semiya and Sago Paal Payasam

My MIL's Semiya n Sago Payasam

Semiya and Sago Paal Payasam:

Ingredients:

1.Vermicelli - 2 cups
2.Sago - 1/2 cup
3.Full Cream Fresh Milk - 200 ml
4.Condensed Milk - 3 tbsp
5.White Sugar - 1/2 cup
6.Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp
7.Cashew nuts - 3 whole nuts
8.Ghee - approx 1-2tbsp
9.Raisins/Sultanas/Dried grapes - 1 tbsp

Preparation:

1.Heat 2tsp of ghee in the pot, roast the vermicelli and sago to light golden brown in medium flame.
2.After that add 1 cup of hot water to the vermicelli n sago to cook nicely.
3.Cook it in medium flame till it half done, then pour the milk and leave it to boil.
4.After the milk gives nice boil add sugar, leave it to cook in medium flame for 5 mts.
5.Then add the condensed milk and cardamom powder.
6.Now heat the ghee in separate pot and fry the cashew nuts and then add the raisins to fry.
7.Pour the ghee mixture on top of the Paal Payasam.
8.I didn't add much ghee n cashew nuts n raisins to my Payasam, cos of my Hubby's diet.
9.Now the sweeet n creamy Semiya n Sago Paal Payasam is ready to serve hot with Vadais, make sure in one hand keep masala vadai and in another hand keep the payasam cup sip payasam n then have vadai,,wooooowww!!! it taste divine...I like to have vada n payasam like this.

I am Passing my Yummyy Sweet Creamy Payasam to Priya's "CWS - Cooking with Seeds Event" and also to Shama's "Kheer Festival".

Tamizh Puthandu Celebrations

To all my Tamil blogger frenz " Me n My Hubby's Iniya Tamizh Puthandu Nalvazhthugal" and to keralite frenz "Happy Vishu". 


Before Marriage, In my Parents house celebrate "Tamil New year " in a big way, we use to start preparing from previous day night itself. Put kolams in front of house, cleaning pooja room and setting the mirror and thampoolams in front of mirror. Inside pooja room we keep big mirror put jasmine garland around the mirror and in front of it place big thaampoolam in that we keep lot of seasonal fruits like Jackfruit, Mangoes, Banana, Oranges and Red big sweet cucumber. The grains in small bowls, money, jewels,Silk dresses, Coconut, betal leaves and nuts, flower bundles and lighting the kuthuvizhakku on both sides of thampoolam this everything what we set up in thampoolam n lamp should be appear in the mirror.

 The whole night the pooja room light will be in on, we woke up before sun rise by closing the eyes we should go to pooja room and should see the mirror " Kani Paarthal". After that we go to "Guruvayurappan temple" nearby our house and my dad will give money for us( me n my bro) and now my Hubby gives money to me, on that day's lunch will be big feast with Rice, White pumpkin Sambar, Rasam,Kootu,Aviyal, Poriyal, Appalam, Vadai, Payasam , pickles and the fruits which we offered to god. 


Here in my house, Prepared everything the mirror and thampoolam settings on yesterday night itself. We have done the "KANI PAARTHAL" in the morning after we woke up,  in the evening we do the prayer .Today's Special dinner with traditional food recipes Idli, sambar, Coconut Chutney, Mangai Pachadi, Ven Pongal, Vadai n Payasam. This is our this year's "Tamizh Puthandu Celebrations". Hope you also preparing n prepared for your Tamizh n Vishu new year Celebration, Enjoy your day with your Family.

Ugadi Celebrations

Happy Ugadi Wishes to all my Blogger Friends.

The New year festival (Ugadi) celebrated in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, Gudi padwa in Maharashtra. Ugadi festival comes in spring season, it is the first season Ugadi is the New Year and New Beginnings of all New Business on this Auspicious day. It is the season for mangoes and Sugarcanes, with these seasonal fruits we make "Ugadi Pachadi" with raw mangoes ,neem flowers and jaggery from sugar cane on this auspicious day. Ugadi Pachadi  is the combination of sweet , bitter and sour, it symbolises the true life. We get fresh mangoes from our field and my Mom makes tongue tinkling Mango Pickles in this season.

My mom use to begin the preparations a week ahead . On that day, we wake up early in the morning and take oil bathe, decorate our house with mango leaves ( Mavilai thoranam) and decorate the pooja room with jasmine flowers. She prepares the sweets a day before itself like Bobbatlu ( Opputtu) and Athirasam.

On Ugadi day, We use to fast in the morning after the prayer have our lunch with Ugadi Bhojanam ( Ugadi Feast). She cooks lot of recipes for our lunch Rice, White Pumpkin Sambar, Tomato rasam, yellow Pumpkin curry with beans,Pulihora,Udhu Vadai ( Methu Vadai), Aval Paal Payasam,Appalam and Mango Pickle.

Here, on yesterday we celebrated our Ugadi festival as in the same way. In the evening we have done our prayer after my hubby came from work. Our dinner with Ugadi Bhojanam Rice, Brinjal sambar, Tomato rasam, Potato fry,Masala Vadai, Rice n Moong dal Paal Payasam, Appalam . My hubby came early on yesterday,Once i finished all the cooking preparations we offered the food to the God and then had our dinner.