Banana Chips – Deep-fried and often salted or sweetened, leading to an increase in blood sugar levels. White Rice-based ...

Discover the authentic recipe for Chakarai Pongal, a sweet and buttery South Indian dish perfect for Makar Sankranti. Serves ...

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

Andhra uses sesame oil, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu use sunflower, and Kerala primarily uses coconut oil. Tamil Nadu’s pineapple rasam, Karnataka’s sakkarai pongal, Andhra’s sweet pachadi, and Kerala’s ...

Sri Lanka’s Embassy in Kuwait hosted a Thai Pongal celebration recently. The festival brought together over 400 attendees, including Sri Lankan ...

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 ...

Pongal festival is named after a traditional sweet dish Pongal ("boiling over") which is made with rice boiled in milk with jaggery. First, it is offered to gods and goddesses and then enjoyed by ...

Participants prepared the sweet, fragrant Pongal rice - a symbol of prosperity - using Jasmine’s premium quality rice mixed with Goodday milk in earthen pots, capturing the spirit of gratitude ...

That’s why we decided to use the power of scent to evoke a sense of nostalgia and take the people of Tamil Nadu back in time to experience that authentic Pongal from their childhood all over again.

The police department organised various events which included drawing of kolam and rangoli, sweet pongal preparation and games for the visitors. The Commissioner gave away prizes to the winners.

Venn Pongal (savoury) and Shakkarai Pongal (sweet) belong to Tamil Nadu and are the staples of the Pongal festival. With a tempering of whole black peppercorns, ginger and cumin seeds, along with ...