Hello Hivean,
Wish you all Happy Makar Sankanti or Pongal. Makar Sankranti or samkranti here means ‘transfer’, this day is considered as the transition day of Sun into the Capricorn.
This sankranti is dedicated to Almighty Sun ( Suryadev) and change its suns transition from Makara Capricon Rashii(zodiac sign). It is consider for the most auspicious occasion in the Hindu culture.
So that we are preparing Makar Chaula as Prasad to serve to Lord suryadev and all other gods in our Temples. It is one of the favourite dish of the Lord Jagannath and lord Shiva also. The dish is prepared by all the people in the eastern part of the Odisha. That purpose today, we are preparing Maker Chaula (rice) at our home.
Makar Chaula is a delicious dish, ones it will prepare, you will love it. It has lots of nutrition’s inside it. The following ingredients are required for making the Makar Chaula (Rice).
Ingredients are
- New Raw rice(250 grams)
- Grinded Coconut(1bowl)
- Jaggery (gud) (150 grams)
- Milk Powder (100 grams)
- Banana(2 large bananas)
- Chenna (200 grams)
- Chopped Ginger( 10-15 grams)
- Black Pepper powder(5-10 grams)
- Kaju & Kismis(50 grams each for garnishing)
- Almonds(50 grams)
- Grapes(100 grams)
- Chopped Apple(250 grams)
- Pomegranates(100 grams)
- Cardamom(3 grams)
Rice Soak in Water
Fruits
Dry Fruits
Black Pepper and Cardamom
Ginger
Coconut
Milk
Jaggery
Chenna
Process:
At first we took 250 gram of new raw rice. We cleaned it and soaked in water for couples of hours. Then we took out the rice from the water; put it in a mixer grinder. Then we did the half grinding of the soaked rice, so that the rice should not be polished grind. At the timing of grinding, it required some liquid. So we have to put some milk at the time of grind instead of water and then it is kept in a bowl.
After that we have taken all the fruits and chopped it with the help of knife and also clean the ginger and chopped it also. Then we will take the coconut and break it. After breaking we cut it in small peace.
Then we took other ingredient like cardamom, grind it. And same thing, we can do for black peppers also. We can put both the ingredients when we mix with others.
Then we took a big bowl in which the above half grinded rice and some ingredients like coconut, banana, chenna, sugar or jaggery, ginger, cardamom, black pepper, kaju, kismis, almonds, fruits (as per you wish) were taken. Here we have taken grapes, pomegranate, and apples. Then we have smashed with our hands as it should have a good coarse texture. Especially this task should be performed with hands because it makes the Makar Chaual tastier. So before doing it, we have cleaned our hands. While mixing it with our hands we added some milk at regular intervals.
So we have to smash properly so that, all the ingredients should completely mixed with others. After 2 to 4 minutes, you dish will be ready.
Before serving, we need to garnish it with the ingredients like Coconut, Kaju, Kismis and Almonds. Now it will ready to serve and you enjoy the delicious sweet dish makar chaula(rice).
Soaked Rice Grinded with Little Milk
Chopped Apples
Chopped Bananas
Chopped Grapes
Pomegranate Seeds
Chopped Ginger
Fruits ready for mix with rice milk and other ingredients
Everything is putting in a bowl for preparation of Delicius Makar Chaula
Garnished Makar Chaula
Ready to Serve Delicious Makar Chaula
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