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Indian Festivals Food recipes and customs

Recipes for Sweets, savouries, and items such as pachadi and rasam made for specific Indian festivals such as Rama Navami, Tamil or Telugu New Years Day, Christmas etc. Traditional recipes from Tamilnadu and other regions of the country.

Bisi Bele Huli Anna, a Brownish yellow hued rice and lentils mix with mustard seeds and green curry leaves tempering, in a white bowl on a yellow background. Black page of a newspaper to the left and a napkin with black squares to the right.

Bisi Bele Huli Anna/ Spiced Rice and Lentils

Cooked dry green peas with coconut raw mango and peanuts wrapped in a roll of newspaper resting on a sand and pink coloured mat on a yellow background

Thenga Manga Pattani Sundal/ Marina Beach Sundal

Three bowls each with a different flavour of cooked mochai double beans, one brown spiced, one with curry leaves, one with green coriander leaves. A beige spice mix jar in the back, a bowl with yellow lemon, red chili and green cilantro and a beige and white napkin to the left

Mochai Sundal for Navaratri - 3 Flavours

Yellow hued raw mango rice in a white bowl edged with beige, on a yellow background. An orange and brown covered cook book on the side and a beige and white napkin in the background

Raw Mango Rice - Make Mango Rice/ Mangai Sadam

Brown hued Puliyodharai Tamarind Rice with peanuts on a white bowl with a thin beige edge, on a dark wooden background

Puliyodharai /Tamarind Spice Rice from Pulikachal

Thiruvathirai Ezhukari kootu, a stew from 7 vegetables in a brown tamraind gravy, garnished with cilantro, in a 2 handled brass bowl, on a gray wooden background

Thiruvathirai Ezhukari Kootu Kuzhambu For Kali

Thiruvathirai Kali, a brown coloured sweet dish, in a brass bowl and some spread on a green banana leaf. Vegetable stew in another bowl and on the leaft, with a pat of white butter by the side

Thiruvathirai Kali with Rice Flour and Jaggery

Colourful paper mache and clay dolls of Hindu Gods and other decorative items for Navaratri Golu in Chennai, India

Navaratri Golu and How To Keep It

A plate of vella seedai from Store bought flour, with a bowl of smaller uppu seedai all on a pink silk fabric with a purple flower in the background and small silver lamps just behind the plate

Vella Seedai from Store Bought Flour for Gokulashtami

A plate of brown fried dry vegetables, Ker Sangri (berries and beans) and lotus stem slices on a long white plate with scalloped edges. A silver edged box and roasted pappad in the background

Ker Sangri / Traditional Rajasthani Sabzi

Green chunks of mixed vegetable curry in mustard paste and coconut, on a green piece of banana leaf resting on a clay plate. A clay tumbler in the bakcground with yellow mango lassi, white cooked rice on a banana leaf and a white hibiscus flower complete the presentation

Traditional Odia Vegetable Besara in Mustard Paste

Black eyed Peas Sundal for Navaratri

Black Eyed Peas Sundal - Navaratri Karamani Sundal

A bowl of Raw Banana Varutha Erissery, a curry of green plantain cooked in turmeric and roasted coconut paste, resting on a green and gray book and a white and green checked napkin on the right

Raw Banana Varutha Erissery with Roasted Coconut

Raw Mango Pachadi for Tamil New Years Day in a brass bowl with a tempering of chilies and mustard seeds and garnish of Neem flowers

Raw Mango Pachadi with Neem Flowers - Mangai Vepampoo Pachadi

Neer Mor a mildly spiced and herbed buttermilk summer cooler served chilled in a tall glass with a transparent pink fabric on one side. Seen with cucumber garnish and tempered with mustard seeds and curry leaves

Neer Mor/ Refreshing Spiced Buttermilk with cucumber

Easy Navaratri Naivedyam and Sundal Recipes

Uppu Seedai from store bought flour, for a traditional Tamilian savoury made for Gokulashtami naivedyam

Easy Uppu Seedai From Store Bought Flour

Panakam or Panagam: Traditional chilled drink of Jaggery water with dry ginger -specially made for Sri Rama Navami festival - easy, refreshing and healthy

Panakam -Traditional Cooler of Jaggery and Dry Ginger

Rich Brown Christmas Fruit cake in a rectangular aluminium pan with a yellow ribbon on top. Slices of cake on a cooling rack with a yellow knife

How to Make a Rich Christmas Fruit Cake - Easy Recipe

Christmas with Natasha

Vanilla Apricot Black Rice Kheer Payasam. The rice is soft and chewy with a nutty taste and a heady aroma. Flavoursome, delicious and nutritious!

Vanilla Apricot Black Rice Kheer Payasam - a Festive Pudding

Badam Halwa_festive sweet of of Saffron and Almonds_

Kesar Badam Halwa -Almond Saffron Dessert

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Green hued Green Pea curry with red tomato and chunks of potato showing through, in a round brass bowl. On a brick coloured background with a beige fabric in the background

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A colourful array of dry fruits, kiwi, pineapple, berries, citrus, papaya ready to be cut to soak fruits for Christmas cake

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Colourful Rotini Pasta from juicy cherry tomatoes, garlic, fresh basil and spirally wholewheat pasta, on a white plate

Quick Rotini Pasta in Garlicky Burst Cherry Tomato Sauce

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Hello from Sujata Shukla, the Author, Owner, Head Cook and Bottle washer at PepperOnPizza.com. The recipes I share with you are from fresh produce, vegetarian except for the occasional egg, usually made from scratch. Traditional Indian, specially Tamil recipes are my forte, along with a slew of Salads and Soups for a healthy lifestyle. Check out my Author Page!

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