Purattasi Sani lunch | Purattasi Thaligai

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Purattasi Masam

Purattasi is one of the auspicious Tamil month for Hindu. In north India, “Purattasi” is called Ashwin month. Mahalaya Paksha or Pitru paksha and Durga Navratri fall in Purattasi Masam.

Maavilaku for Purattasi

My parents' kula deivam is Perumal (Lord Venkateshwara ) so every year during Purattasi Amma prepares Maavilakku, sakkarai Pongal, and vadai- offer it to God.  Some of my friends make Purattasi thaligai  | Thaligai podrathu | Thalu.  prepare 5 varieties rice - puliyodarai, lemon rice, coconut rice,  ellu sadam, curd rice, and jaggery rice and offer it to God.

Purattasi Sani lunch

• Firstly,  chop and keep all vegetables ready
• If you are using frozen coconut thaw them 

Soak

• urad dal for vadai
• toor dal for sambar and rasam 
• rice for maavilakku
• Moong dal and rice for pongal
• Jaggery for Pongal

Grinding 

• Urad dal with little cold water for vadai
• Saute and grind ingredients for Arachuvitta sambar

Tempering

• Cashews and raisins ghee for Pongal
• Mustard seeds, fenugreek seeds, and cumin seeds in ghee for Rasam
• Urad dal, mustard seeds, and red chili in coconut oil for cabbage poriyal

Pressure Cook

• Rice 
• Moong dal and rice with milk and water for Pongal
• Dal for sambar and rasam

For a detailed recipe link with ingredients and instructions pls. Click on the image 

Maavilakku

• Drain rice and cool
• Grind the damp rice and sieve the flour
•  Add country sugar, cardamom powder, and little ghee, mix and make two lamps. Light wick lamps with  ghee

Akkaravadisal

• Add the tempering, cooked moon dal- rice, milk, and boil
• Filter and add jaggery syrup and boil well
• Add cardamom powder, saffron, and cook
• Finally, turn off the stove and add edible camphor

You can also make sakkarai Pongal or jaggery rice or kalkandu Pongal

Medu vadai

• Refrigerate the vadai batter for 30 minutes
• Heat oil
• Mix all the ingredients for vadai and fry vadai

Check out other vadai recipes in TMF

Arachuvitta sambar 

The original sambar recipe is with radish and onion but for this sambar, I have used carrots, capsicum, and drumstick

• Temper and saute vegetables
• Add sambar powder,  tamarind paste, water, and other required ingredients for sambar; boil 
• Furthermore, add the ground sambar paste  and boil
• Finally, add dal and boil

Check out  sambar, kuzhambu recipes, coconut-based recipes, kootu recipes in TMF

Paruppu rasam

• Saute tomatoes
• Boil tamarind, rasam powder, salt, and other ingredients 
• Add cooked dal and bring to a frothy boil
• Finally, add the tempering and turn off the rasam

Check out other rasam varieties in TMF 

cabbage poriyal

• To the cabbage poriyal tempering, add washed cabbage, turmeric powder, and required salt, cover cook
• Finally, add  coconut and prepare poriyal

Instant puli sadam

• Use tamarind paste and other required ingredients for instant puli sadam; prepare instant pulikaichal
• Finally, mix rice and keep it aside 

You can also prepare Puliyodarai and prepare traditional puli sadam.

You can also prepare lemon rice, coconut rice, ellu sadam, curd rice.  Check out other variety rice recipes in TMF

• Add salt to the  dal and mix well
• Serve the meal with a dollop of ghee