Thiruvadhirai Kali

Wishing all the readers and their families a very Happy and Prosperous New Year 2012!!

Let me start the New Year 2012 with a sweet dish for Lord Shiva.

Thiruvadhirai Kali is a speciality dish made by the Iyers on the day of Thiruvadhirai (Arudhra Darisanam) as Neivedhyam along with Ezhu curry kootu / Ezhu curry Kuzhambu to Lord Shiva.

Ingredients:

1.       Rice, Moong dal Flour : 1 cup

2.       Jaggery: 3/4^th cup to 1 cup depending on the sweetness of jaggery

3.       Grated Coconut: 4 tbsps

4.       Ghee: 3 to 4 tbsps

5.       Cashew nuts: 15

6.       Water: 2 cups

7.       Cardamom Powder: A pinch

Preparation Procedure:

Rice – Moong Dal flour:

1.       The rice moong dal ratio should be 90%:10%.

2.       In a dry heavy bottom kadai, dry roast the rice-moong dal mix in sim to light golden yellow colour and allow it to cool for some time.

3.       Then, grind this mix in a mixie in the form of a rava.

Kali preparation:

1.       In a dry kadai, take 2 cups of water and allow it to boil.

2.       Once the water starts boiling, add the rava like flour to water slowly with one hand while stirring the kadai on the other hand.

3.       Allow this to boil and become like a state of half cooked rice (it may take 10 mins approximately)

4.       Powder the jaggery

5.       In a separate vessel, add little water – say ¼ cup, boil it and add the powdered jaggery and when it dissolves, filter out the dirt from this jaggery paste and add the jaggery paste to the rice flour kadai and keep stirring.

6.       Add a tbsp of ghee in a small kadai and roast the cashews and before switching off the stove, add the grated coconut and fry a little for 1 minute and switch off.

7.       Add the roasted cashews – coconut to the jaggery-rice flour kadai and keep stirring at low flame for few mins and switch off the stove.

8.       Add 3 tbsps of ghee and a pinch of cardamom powder.

Delicious Thiruvathirai Kali is all ready for Neivedhyam