Top 184 Pongal Festival Recipes Tamil Recipes

Thai Pongal is a harvest thanksgiving, and the menu follows the harvest: new rice, fresh jaggery, sugarcane, turmeric plant and the first milk of the day. The ritual dish is sakkarai pongal boiled over in a clay pot until the milk rises, but the full festival plate around it is just as fixed — ven pongal with pepper and cumin, medhu vadai, coconut chutney, a seasonal kootu, avial, payasam and vadai for the afternoon. This collection assembles that whole spread with bilingual quantities scaled for a family gathering, plus the Mattu Pongal and Kaanum Pongal dishes that follow on the next two days. Timing notes tell you what to soak the night before and what to cook fresh in the morning. Even outside January, the sweet and savoury pongal recipes here work as a comforting weekend breakfast.

சர்க்கரைப் பொங்கல், வெண் பொங்கல், வடை, பாயசம் வகைகள்.