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    Easy Navaratri Naivedyam and Sundal Recipes

    Published: Sep 20, 2017 Modified: Oct 21, 2020 By Sujata Shukla This blog generates income via ads. This post may contain affiliate links. PepperOnPizza may earn a commission for purchases made after clicking these links. View our disclosure policy for details

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    Easy Navaratri Naivedyam and Sundal Recipes for Navaratri Pooja and for Navaratri Kolu for busy Moms. No Onion No Garlic Recipes

    It is customary to offer Navaratri Naivedyam to the Mother Goddess on each of the 9 days of Navaratri, and for the Pooja to be carried out twice a day, i.e. in the morning and evening. This post brings you Navaratri Naivedyam and Sundal Recipes that you can easily make.  The rice based dishes or variety rice can do double duty as both naiveydam and as lunch or for tiffin boxes, after you have first lit the lamp and offered it to the Goddess. For the South Indian festival of Kolu, Sundal Naivedyam is usually prepared in the evenings and is the prasadam for visitors for the kolu.

    Easy Navaratri Naivedyam and Sundal Recipes for Navaratri Pooja and for Navaratri Golu for busy Moms. No Onion No Garlic Recipes

    With our busy schedules and with many of us coping with  the morning rush to pack lunch boxes and school tiffin boxes, it can be a hassle to prepare different varieties of Naivedyam for Navaratri Pooja each day. At the same time, this is a festival that we enjoy and would like to make tasty offerings, and naivedyam is even more important if Bomma Kolu or Golu has been kept at home.

    This is the second post in my series on Navaratri: Fasting and Feasting and Everything In-between, and is focussed on Navaratri Naivedyam and Sundal Recipes for Golu and Navaratri Pooja in South India. I will be writing about Naivedyam and also on Fasting in North India, in another post.

    Link to Part 1 of the Series, on how the Kolu steps should be arranged, what is the order of keeping the Golu Bommai or Dolls, How and when to keep the Kalasam, etc: Navaratri Golu and How To Keep It 

    In this post there are some Navaratri Naivedyam and Sundal Recipes from my food blogger friends and from my blog, and I will keep adding to this in the next few days. I must say a big Thank you to Sundari Giri (Ladles And Spoons), Paluk Khanna (Kitchen Fables) and Sujitha T Nair (Suji's Cooking) who readily offered their well written and easy to make recipes for this post. The link to each recipe is given along with the respective image below. We have included some interesting Payasams, do have a look!

    The Navaratri Naivedyam and Sundal Recipes for Navaratri Pooja differs from region to region and as per community and family customs. I am not immediately able to give you an authentic list of what is to be offered on each day for the deity worshipped on that day, and will do that at the earliest from reliable sources. Onion and garlic are traditionally not added to the naivedyam preparations. One or two of the recipes below may include onion or garlic, please omit the same while making for naivedyam.

    What are the Navaratri Naivedyam and Sundal Recipes that can be made for Pooja?

    In South India, specially in Tamil Nadu, these are some of the traditional Navaratri Naivedyam:

    Sweet Pongal or Sakkarai Pongal / Chakkara Pongal
    Tamarind Rice or Puliyodharai/ Puliyogare made from Pulikachal
    Venn Pongal - Savoury Rice with Moong dal Lentils
    Curd Rice or Daddojanam/ Tayir Sadam
    Coconut Rice or Thengai Sadam
    Lemon Rice or Elumicham Rice
    Arisi Vellam Puttu or Rice Jagery Puttu
    Milk Rice or Paal Sadam or Ksheerannam
    Sweet Rice: Rice and Jaggery or Vella Sadam
    Payasam/ Kheer
    Medu Vadai or Vadai made from Lentils
    Sweet Boondhi
    Ravaa Kesari or Halwa
    Panakkam or Panagam - jaggery drink
    Appam - sweet fried fritters from rice flour and jaggery

    The Sundal Naivedyam for Navaratri Pooja:

    This is usually offered as prasadam in the evenings when visitors come to see the Golu, but can of course be made for the morning pooja instead. Sundal or Guggillu is high in protein and a nutritious item on the menu, as the lentils are boiled and then either stir fried or else just has tadka or tempering added to it. Most of them need to be soaked overnight, so look up the recipe well ahead of time!

    The most popular order (I have yet to find the authentic sampradayam or convention) of making the sundal naivedyam is:

    Navaratri Day 1: Pasi Paruppu/ Moong dal / Green Gram Sundal
    Navaratri Day 2: Sweet Pacha Payaru Sundal or Sweet Red bean/ Rajma Sundal or  Puttu or savoury version of any of these
    Navaratri Day 3: Verkadalai Sundal/ Peanut Sundal
    Navaratri Day 4: Chickpeas Sundal/ Kabuli Chana Sundal
    Navaratri Day 5: Split Chana dal/ Bengal Gram/ kadala paruppu
    Navaratri Day 6: Karamani Sundal/ Black Eyed Beans/ Lobia Beans Sundal
    Navaratri Day 7: Pattani /Green Peas Sundal
    Navaratri Day 8: Mocchai Kotta/ Mocchai Payaru Sundal
    Navaratri Day 9: Kadala Sundal/ Kala Channa Sundal (the small black skinned channa)

    Other Sundal varieties:
    Whole Black Urad Sundal/ Ulundu Sundal
    Kollu Sundal/ Horse Gram Sundal
    Corn Sundal

    I. Traditional Neivedyam Recipes:

    1. Tamarind Rice or Puliyodharai made from Pulikachal

    Link to the Recipe from PepperOnPizza: Click Here

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    2. Ven Pongal or Rice Cooked with Lentils

    Link to the Recipe on PepperOnPizza: Click Here

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    3. Curd Rice or Daddojanam or Tayir Sadam

    Link to the Recipe on Suji's Cooking: Click Here

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    4. Coconut Rice or Thengai Sadam

    (omit the Onion in the recipe please)

    Link to the Recipe on Suji's Cooking: Click Here

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    5. Lemon Rice or Ellumicham Rice

    Link to the Recipe on PepperOnPizza: Click Here

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    6. Panakam/ Panagam - jaggery drink

    Link to the Recipe  on PepperOnPizza: Click Here

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    7. Rava Kesari or Kesari Bhaat

    Link to the Recipe on Kitchen Fables: Click Here

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    II. Payasam Recipes for Naivedyam:

    Elaneer Payasam / Tender Coconut Payasam:

    Link to the Recipe on Kitchen Fables: Click Here

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    Black Rice Payasam. 

    Link to the Recipe on PepperOnPizza: Click Here

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    Oats Carrot Payasam:

    Link to the Recipe on Suji's Cooking: Click Here

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    III. Sundal Naivedyam:

    Konda Kadalai / Black Chickpea Sundal:

    Link to the Recipe on Kitchen Fables: Click Here

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    Mochai Sundal/Double Beans - 3 Flavours

    Link to the Recipe on this blog, PepperOnPizza, click here

    3 white bowls each filled with a different flavour of mochai sundal/ cooked double beans. Plate with green cilantro and curry leaves on one side, slice of lemon in one bowl and beige spice mix in a glass jar at the back. Beige and white checked napkin at the left
    Three flavours of Mochai Sundal

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Thenga Manga Pattani Sundal

    Link to the Recipe on PepperOnPizza (this blog) click here.

    Dry Green Peas Sundal of cooked peas in a white bowl, with coconut, mango shavings and peanuts seen. Beige napkin to the left, all on a yellow background
    Thenga Manga Pattani Sundal

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Black eyed Peas Sundal / Karamani Sundal 

    Link to the Recipe on this blog, PepperOnPizza: here

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    1. Paluk says

      September 21, 2017 at 10:51 am

      This a complete guide to the Naivedyam !! lovely write up !!

      Reply
      • Sujata Shukla says

        September 21, 2017 at 6:27 pm

        Thank you Paluk! Glad you liked it!

        Reply
    2. kruthika manoharan says

      September 21, 2017 at 3:47 am

      This sums up all the to-dos and don'ts of navararthri! Would skip the google search for navararthri doubts and directly refer your link ma'am. Thank you for this write up, helps amateurs like us to know things.

      Reply
      • Sujata Shukla says

        September 21, 2017 at 3:49 am

        Thank you Kruthika for the appreciation. Would love your feedback on anything more I could add to the post or to the rest of the Navaratri series

        Reply
    3. Sujitha says

      September 20, 2017 at 10:21 am

      Great post Sujata.Thank you verymuch for adding my recipe.

      Reply
      • Sujata Shukla says

        September 20, 2017 at 10:28 am

        Thank you for sharing them, Sujitha! The Oats Carrot Payasam is my all time favourite

        Reply
    4. Ramya Ramamurthy says

      September 20, 2017 at 6:09 am

      Very informative and comprehensive. Great for someone like me to refer to for festivals.

      Reply
      • Sujata Shukla says

        September 20, 2017 at 8:06 am

        Thank you Ramya, I'm glad you like it. I'm planning to do this in a detailed way, the research is pretty interesting!

        Reply

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