How To Make Thiruvathirai Kali Recipe
`Thiruvathirai` is a Hindu festival celebrated in India in the states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala for Lord Shiva and Thiruvathirai Kali recipe is prepared as a `Prasadham` for this spiritual occasion
An Outlook On Thiruvathirai Kali
This pooja is also called as `Aarudra dharisanam`(in Tamil) which means `sight of sacred big wave`. This festival is celebrated in a grand manner in places like Chidhambaram and Kollam. 'Thiruvathirai kali' with `Ezhukari kootu` is the speciality of the full moon day of `marghazhi madam`.
Fundamental Ingredients of Thiruvathirai Kali
`Kali` is made of rice flour mixed up with ghee, jaggery, coconut and cardamom. These five ingredients always make a wonderful combination for a luscious sweet. When mixed with correct proportion and consistency, these key elements end up with an awesome taste and flavour.
Thiruvathirai Kali's Inseperable Twin :
`Thiruvadhirai kali with `Ezhukari kootu` makes a magical combination that go hand in hand with each other. It seems so inseparable as the kali is never prepared without this apt side dish. It is relished by people of all age groups right from a child to an old person. It also tastes best as a dessert after a heavy sumptuous meal.
Ingredients Required For Making Thiruvathirai kali Recipe
How To Make Thiruvathirai Kali Recipe
To make Thiruvathirai Kali Recipe, Place a pan in the stove and keep it medium flame. Add a cup of raw rice into it and fry till golden brown. Switch off the stove.
After it cools down, put it in a blender and make it into a coarse powder.
Place the pan again and keep it in medium flame and put the jaggery into it with a little water. It will melt in minutes and stir well.
Drain the jaggery water using a filter to remove the impurities in it.
To make jaggery mix for thiruvathirai Kali recipe, Pour two cups of water in the pan and keep it in high flame.
When it boils, add the coarse rice powder to it and stir well and close it with a lid.
Let it cook it medium flame for 10 minutes approximately.
Open the lid in between to stir the flour to check out for any lumps here and there.
After 10 minutes, open the lid and add the melted jaggery, cardamom powder and grated coconut into the mixture and mix everything well.
Keep stirring it for a few minutes {5 mins approx} and now transfer it to a container.
Take a pressure cooker and pour a glass of water into it and place the container inside the cooker and close it with a lid.
Pressure cook for three whistles.
Take the cooker from the stove and place a small pan in it and pour half a cup of ghee into it and once it melts, add the cashews and fry till golden brown.
Open the pressure cooker and take out the kali. Now add the roasted cashews to it along with the ghee. Give a thorough mix and serve it hot over a banana leaf with its traditional combination `Ezhu Kari Kootu`.
Ingredients
Directions
To make Thiruvathirai Kali Recipe, Place a pan in the stove and keep it medium flame. Add a cup of raw rice into it and fry till golden brown. Switch off the stove.
After it cools down, put it in a blender and make it into a coarse powder.
Place the pan again and keep it in medium flame and put the jaggery into it with a little water. It will melt in minutes and stir well.
Drain the jaggery water using a filter to remove the impurities in it.
To make jaggery mix for thiruvathirai Kali recipe, Pour two cups of water in the pan and keep it in high flame.
When it boils, add the coarse rice powder to it and stir well and close it with a lid.
Let it cook it medium flame for 10 minutes approximately.
Open the lid in between to stir the flour to check out for any lumps here and there.
After 10 minutes, open the lid and add the melted jaggery, cardamom powder and grated coconut into the mixture and mix everything well.
Keep stirring it for a few minutes {5 mins approx} and now transfer it to a container.
Take a pressure cooker and pour a glass of water into it and place the container inside the cooker and close it with a lid.
Pressure cook for three whistles.
Take the cooker from the stove and place a small pan in it and pour half a cup of ghee into it and once it melts, add the cashews and fry till golden brown.
Open the pressure cooker and take out the kali. Now add the roasted cashews to it along with the ghee. Give a thorough mix and serve it hot over a banana leaf with its traditional combination `Ezhu Kari Kootu`.
