Thiruvathirai Kali | Thiruvadhirai Kali
The traditional Thiruvathirai Kali is a sweet recipe prepared with raw rice & jaggery and served as prasadam during Thiruvathirai viratham.
Thiruvathirai is an auspicious day especially celebrated for Lord Shiva. Fasting is held on that full day and later in the evening when the moon arises we break the fast after offering to the god. The next day is for the darshan of lord Natrajar(dancing form of Lord Shiva) called “Arudhra darisanam”. Only after the darshan, the viradham gets fulfilled. After the long full first day fast, to give instant energy this Thiruvadhirai Kali or adai is first taken. As this is made of rice and jaggery, we get carbs as well as sugar immediately.
Like thiruvadhirai Kali some families make thiruvathirai adai, which is also an equally important dish. According to me, this Thiruvadhirai Kali is easier than adai.
In addition to this special sweet, “Thiruvathirai kulambu” or ezhu Kari kootu or kulambu is also made, in which a minimum of seven to a maximum of 13 kinds of vegetables used.
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This year I will show you how to make the famous delicious Thiruvathirai Kali with stepwise pictures and a video.
Thiruvathirai Kali | Thiruvadhirai Kali
Ingredients
Ingredients:
- 1 cup raw rice
- 1.25 cups jaggery powder
- 2 tbsp ghee
- 3 cups water
- ½ tsp cardamom powder
- 1 tbsp cashew nuts
- 1 tbsp dry grapes
- ¼ tsp salt
- ½ cup grated coconut
Instructions
Recipe to make thiruvathirai Kali:
- First of all take raw rice in a pan, dry roast in medium heat for 5 minutes.
- Fry continuously until rice becomes light brown in color. Do not let it burn.
- Remove from the pan and let the rice cool down.
- Grind the rice into coarse powder.
- In the meantime, dissolve jaggery with half a cup of water in low heat. No need to make a syrup with any particular consistency. Just dissolving is enough.
- Also, fry cashews and dry grapes using half of the ghee to golden color and keep aside.
How to make the Kali.
- Keep a large pan on the stove, boil 2.5 cups of water(measured in the same cup used for rice).
- When water comes to a nice boiling, put a pinch of salt, add the coarsely ground rice rava gradually and stir quickly.
- Stir quickly and continuously while adding rice powder to avoid lumps formation. If you are a beginner first mix the rice powder with a cup of water without lumps and add this mix into hot water.
- Mix well till the mixture becomes whole mass and reduce the temperature to low heat. Cover with a lid and cook for temperature ten minutes.
- Open the lid often and mix with a ladle to avoid the bottom burning.
- In a few minutes, the rice rava is cooked well and becomes soft.
- Cook rice completely and then add filtered jaggery water.
- Now mix again continuously so that the jaggery is well absorbed into the rice.
- Add a tablespoon of ghee and mix.
- Now add grated coconut, fried cashews and dry grapes.
- Finally add some cardamom powder, mix and switch off.
- Serve this delicious Thiruvathirai Kali as a prasadam during auspicious occasions. You can also enjoy this sweet as a snack or breakfast.
Notes
Nutrition
Recipe to make thiruvathirai Kali:
- First of all take raw rice in a pan, dry roast in medium heat for 5 minutes. I used already cleaned raw rice. You can rinse the store-bought rice, filter and dry in a clean cotton cloth under shade before roasting.
- Fry continuously until rice becomes light brown in color. Do not let it burn.
- Remove from the pan and let the rice cool down.
- Grind the rice into a coarse powder.
- In the meantime, dissolve jaggery with half a cup of water in low heat. No need to make a syrup with any particular consistency. Just dissolving is enough.
- Also, fry cashews and dry grapes using half of the ghee to golden color and keep aside.
How to make the Kali:
- Keep a large pan on the stove, boil 2.5 cups of water(measured in the same cup used for rice).
- When water comes to a nice boiling, put a pinch of salt, add the coarsely ground rice rava gradually and stir quickly.
- Stir quickly and continuously while adding rice powder to avoid lumps formation. If you are a beginner first mix the rice powder with a cup of water without lumps and add this mix into hot water.
- Mix well till the mixture becomes whole mass and reduce the temperature to low heat. Cover with a lid and cook for temperature ten minutes.
- Open the lid often and mix with a ladle to avoid the bottom burning.
- In a few minutes, the rice rava is cooked well and becomes soft.
- Cook rice completely and then add filtered jaggery water.
- Now mix again continuously so that the jaggery is well absorbed into the rice.
- Add a tablespoon of ghee and mix.
- Now add grated coconut, fried cashews and dry grapes.
- Finally add some cardamom powder, mix and switch off.
- Serve this delicious Thiruvathirai Kali as a prasadam during auspicious occasions. You can also enjoy this sweet as a snack or breakfast.
Tips:
1) Always use jaggery to make this sweet. If you have pure jaggery then you can directly use jaggery powder instead of liquid jaggery.
2) The powder should be of rava consistency, which is not too coarse or too fine in texture.
