THIRUVATHIRAI INIPPU APPAM I THIRUVATHIRAI RECIPES I ARUTHRA DHARISANAM RECIPES

Thiruvathira or Thiruvathirai or Aruthra Dharisanam is a Hindu festival celebrated for lord shiva. The festival will be celebrated on the Thiruvathriai star on full moon day. Its also know as Mangalya Nonbu on South Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Every married woman will follow fasting to the longevity of husbands. Unmarried girls also follow fasting to get married good person. They will have food before the sunrise of the day and follow fasting and complete their fasting while the moon rise in the evening.

We usually do 16 kaikari kootu, Inippu appam, medhu vadai and Karuppati vadai with rice, dal and rasam. After doing the Pooja tie yellow rope on the hands (unmarried women) and the neck (married women). Then complete our fasting with these neivediyum. I have shared Thiruvathirai Inippu Appam which we offer for the god of the special day. The appam is my most favorite, but we prepare only 7 appams on the special day and reserve the remaining batter in refrigeration and will prepare it on next day to enjoy… J

 

Category	Dessert
Cuisine	South Indian
Preparation Time	7 Hours including Soak Time
Cooking Time	20 Minutes
Yields	15-20

Source – My Own

INGREDIENTS

Par boiled rice – 1 ½ Cup

Raw rice – ½ Cup

Jaggery – 1 ½ Cup

Water – Required to grind and jaggery syrup

Salt – ¼ Tsp

Oil – To deep fry

METHOD

• Soak parboiled rice and raw rice for 4-6 hours.
• Melt jaggery with 2 Tbsp of water on low flame and filter it to prevent impurities and keep it aside.

• Wash and drain the rice and grind it with little water into a smooth batter.

• Pour the jaggery syrup into the batter with salt and grind it once.

• Transfer into a bowl and keep it aside.
• Heat enough oil to deep fry on medium-high flame.

• Pour one ladleful of batter and fry till golden brown.

• Keep it on absorbent paper and serve it…

NOTE

• You can add cardamom powder and scraped coconut to the batter.
• Do not increase raw rice ratio, else it will become too hard.