Rangoli-152

Pongal Special

This Rangoli is known as Pongali Kundalu. Pongali means rice dish. Kundalu means  pots.

The sweet variety is known as Chakkera Pongali where milk, jaggery and rice are boiled together and ghee and dry fruits are added.

The spicy one known as Pongali, has rice, split green gram and spices. 

The sweet one is cooked by all the South Indians on Sankranti day-the day Sun enters the Capricorn. This rice dish is offered to Sun God, cooked in new clay pot and on wood fire. Its   taste is something which has to be experienced.

For this Rangoli, the dots to be placed are:

23 dots in center row,

21 dots--2 rows on either side

leaving 5 dots on each side, 11 dots 3 times

5 dots 5 times

then 1 dot

See how they are placed above.

Join as shown above. You can see the Pongali pots and earthen ware oil lamps.

This is especially for Sankranti or Pongal festival. Keep watching.....

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