Celebrate Ratha Saptami 2025 with traditional dishes like Payasam, Pongal, and more. Discover auspicious foods that bring ...

The cooked rice is then used to make a dish called Pongal which includes sugar and dal. There are different varieties of Pongal that are made and these include venpongal and chakra Pongal.

The dish, Pongal is a mix of rice, milk and sugar. The four days of Pongal are known as Bhogi Pongal, Surya Pongal, Maatu Pongal and Kaanum Pongal. Read on to know more about each of the four ...

The rice is prepared as a dish called Pongal which is rice with dhal and sugar. This Pongal variety is called Ven Pongal. “Ven” means white. Another variety is also prepared with dhal and ...

This dish, called Pongal, is then garnished with ghee, cashew nuts, raisins, and brown sugar. Traditionally, this sweet offering is prepared at sunrise in an open space and first presented to the ...

Chewing on sugar cane, digging into delicious sweet pongal, and catching a Test at Chepauk were all part of January festivities in the Madras of yore. The Pongal Test was very much part of the ...

Cattle are also fed special treats like sweet Pongal a rice dish made with jaggery, sugar, and ghee, which is considered a symbolic offering to the animals for their hard work. Bullock cart races ...