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We just finished one of our important festivals yesterday…It was the Kaaradayam nombu.

This is a festival celebrated by Tamil Brahmins. This is a day for the ladies to pray that their husbands (or husbands to be) are always with them and that their relationship never dies.

It is an equivalent to karvachauth celebrated in north India….of course…since this festival concerns a very small community….it is not that famous and widely celebrated.

However, the point of this post is that I would liket o put in the recipe for the dish that is made as a neivedyam for godess Lakshmi during this festival. It is called Kaaradai. It comes in the sweet and salt versions.

This is also called nombu adai

Sweet:

Ingredients:
Rice flour: 1 Cup
Water: 1 Cup
Jagerry: I cup
Cashews: few
Coconut(grated): 1 Cup
Kaaramani ( red kidney beans): 1 cup –> soak in water overnight and cook it in a presure cooker
a pinch of salt
Elaichi powder : 1 tsp

Heat the rice flour in a kadai and seive it. Keep aside.
Heat water and then add jaggery. Allow it to dissolve. Then filter it.
Heta the jaggery water with a very low flame. Add a pinch of salt and the rice flour to it.
Mix it well.
Add one cup of kaaramani, coconut, cashwes and elaichi powder and mix.
take away from flame and make some patties out of the mixed dough like flour.
Cook in steam (like idli)

Salted:

Ingredients:
Same as above, except for jaggery
Salt to taste

Add rice flour and salt to plain water. Add all the other ingradients also.
corriander leaves and asafoteda can be included optionally.
Make patties and steam cook it (like idli)

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