amil Nadu is predominantly agricultural so it is not surprising that the most important festival is pongal, the harvest festival, which is celebrated at the beginning of the Tamil month of Thai. Sweet rice, known as Sakkarai Pongal, is cooked in a new earthenware pot at the same place where pujai is performed. Fresh turmeric and ginger are tied around this pot. Then a delicious concoction of rice, green gram/payatham paruppu, jaggery and milk is boiled in the pot on an open fire. This Pongal, according to ritual, is allowed to boil and spill out of the pot. . It is this overflowing which means Pongal. Once the Pongal is ready it is tempered with cashew nuts and raisins fried in ghee. Pongal, once ready, is offered to God first, on a new banana leaf along with other traditional delicacies like vadais, payasam, etc. Besides this, sugarcane, grain, sweet potatoes etc. are also offered to the Sun God.
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 09:10:41 +0000
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