To this date my mother observes this puja, wearing a 9 yard saree. She also used to make me & my sister sing these immortal lines:-
Urugada Vennaiyum, Oru adaiyum vaithen ;
oru kaalum yen kanavan piriyadhu irukanum !
I have sung these lines without understanding the meaning for a very long time, when i did make sense of these lines, i appreciated the unmatched love it signifies for the spouse !
The lines literally translated means ,Lord I am offering you Kara Adai with unmelted butter, please let me and my hubby not be separated ever !
There is also a ritual of tying saradu around the neck – it is a sacred yellow thread with a small piece of turmeric root or a few flowers placed in the centre.
The Puja/celebrations today:-
I follow the same ritual observation as my mom does and the recipe is also the same way she makes.The adai prepared are of two types – sweet & savoury (Inippu adai & Uppu karadai)
For both the adais it is imperative to dry roast the rice flour till it is light brown in colour and has a texture that is right for drawing rangolis ! I kept checking it time & again by taking a pinch of the flour and drawing a flower on the kitchen board !
Sweet adai:-
What goes
- Rice Flour – 1 cup + a little extra if required
- Jaggery – 3/4 cup – to taste (powdered)
- Black eyed Beans (Karamani/Lobia) – 1/4 cup (boiled)
- Coconut Pieces – sliced to small pieces – 1/4 cup
- Cardamon – 2 to 3 pods – crushed
- Ghee – 1 tbsp
- Water – 1 cup
Soak the black-eyed beans for 2 hours and pressure cook them to 3 whistles. In a large pan add water and bring it to a boil. Now add the jaggery and as it starts blending together with water, add beans, coconut pieces and powdered cardamom. Give it a boil and add ghee..
Now switch off the flame and add the rice flour little by little while continuously mixing it well to a fine dough. Add little ghee and flour (if required).
Allow the dough to cool and knead it a little by hand too if there are lumps.
Now take a small ball and spread it and flatten them as shown. Make a small hole in the centre like vadas !
In a greased idli plates or in pressure cooker with flat plates. steam them for 7-10 minutes until cooked.
Uppadai (Savoury)
- Rice Flour – 1 cup + a little extra if required
- Black-eyed Beans- 1/4 cup
- coconut pieces- 1/4 cup
- Water- 1 cup
- Toor Dal – 2 tsp
- Cumin Seeds – 1tsp
- Green Chilli – 3 – to taste
- Coconut – 2 to 3 pieces
- Oil- 1 tbsp
- Mustard,Urad Dal – 1 tbsp
- Curry leaves – a few
- Water- 1 1/4 cup
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Nice post on karadayan nombu, I will be doing it in our local time. I miss amma and her last minutes rush to wear madisar pudavai. By the way adai looks yummy.
That's informative, Priya. I think we appreciate all these rituals when we are adults. And kids get to enjoy all the goodies. :)
Loved your post..very well written n everything looks so yummy n very authentic!
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Nice looking adai's. I will be home very late today and will only do pazham neivedhyam. Thatz why I prepared adai last week!
Nice and detailed post and may the good lord be with you and hear ur prayers…
I loved those 2 lines… Shows ever lasting love…
Everything looks so perfect..my wishes for the nombu..
I don't know if this is good or bad. We Indians follow the same ritual and same belief in different ways and different dates. I follow Karwachaut because I married someone from North India, My Mom follow Savitri Vrath , which is a similar ritual followed by Bengalis and you follow something similar again. Won't it be more fun to celebrate the same thing on the same day ??!! Just a thought :)
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Happy nombu and the adais look very delicious.
Very informative post and good looking adais… May God bless your family :-)
Nombu adai looks yum..very authentic!! Happy Nombu!
Nonbu adais looks super yummy, wat an authentic dish..
oh priya, how can I forget those good old days???? Your post made me relive those good old days! Thanks sis :) Mom will be proud of your post!
Nice post dear..authentic recipe,looks yummy.
Very yummy recipe..
FunWidFud
Adais look so yummy.And informative post.Happy Nombu!
Slurp! The adaias very yummy and drool-worthy!
That is a very sweet tradition. I love learning about them. Thanks Priya for a wonderful, informitive post :)
Nice Information !!! Adais looks so perfect and yummy !!!!
Am such a craziest fan for these adai's .. My neighbours, who are brahmins they make it for karadaiyan Nonbu.. I came to know abt the recipe after my marriage thro one of my friend.. Now i get to taste the authentic adai from ur recipe..Thanks for sharing
Glad to know about this tradition. Adais look great.
Deepa
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