Tag: Konkani Festivals
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Shri Bhaan Bhorche Veedhi
Sarva Mangala Mangalye Shive Sarvartha Sadhike Sharannye Trembhake Devi Narayani Namostute ||| Salutations to our Almighty God -Shri Venketachalapathy , Our Revered Guru ! After requests from young people staying abroad and afar from their native places ., I am humbly taking up this task of describing a very important…
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Panchamrut/Panchamrit
Panchamrit /panchamrut as the name signifies is a holy mixture of 5 super ingredients which have been used since ancient times. These super ingredients can also be termed as Super foods which have immense nutritional and medicinal values – no wonder that our ancestors used these 5 ingredients to prepare…
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Patholi (Instant version)
Patholi is a sweet dish which is cooked in turmeric leaves.It is stuffed with a mixture of jaggery,coconut and cardamom powder.The outer covering is normally prepared with rice and coconut paste.This dish is a very important naivedya…
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Shimpiyan Kheeri
Shimpian Kheeri is a very traditional & almost forgotten Payasu , It’s almost similar to Polyan Kheeri which is also included in this blog !Little blobs of rice dough cooked in sweet coconut milk give an…
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Kelya Harshale (dry version)
Harshale is a a traditional dessert of Konkanis. Normally it is prepared with coconut milk. There are various combinations of harshale prepared with either poha, tender coconut, coconut milk and also with musk melon/ Chibbad. …
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Festival Special – Diwali/ Deepavali
Shubham Karoti Kalyaannam-Aarogyam Dhana-Sampadaa | Shatru-Buddhi-Vinaashaaya Diipa-Jyotir-Namostute || Meaning – The Light of the Lamp Which Brings Auspiciousness, Health and Prosperity, Which Destroys Inimical Feelings; Salutations to the Light of the Lamp. Deepavali – ( row of lamps…
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Festival Special – Navaratri
Sarva Mangala Mangalye Shive Sarvartha Sadhike Sharannye Trembhake Devi Narayani Namostute ||| During the fortnight of Ashwin (during Shukla Paksha of Aashvij in Konkani).- the first nine days are celebrated as Navaratri and the tenth day as…
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Phova Kheeri
Phova kheeri is prepared on festive occassions by Konkanis. Normally it is prepared on Srikrishna Janmastami ,but few families prepare on Ramanavami and also on SuthaPunav too. This is a traditional recipes of GSBs.…
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Chudi poojan and its significance
Gaud Saraswat Brahmins(GSB’s) have some very unique traditions and “chudi pooja” is one among them.The monsoon brings along with it lots of festivals in the Shravan maas along with the chudi pooja. Shravana the…
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Cheppi Kheeri ..festive and traditional recipe
Kheeri is a traditional recipe which is made only during festivals i.e during Nag Panchami and Gouri Pooja which falls on the previous day of Ganesh Chaturthi or sometimes on the same day.Cheppi means saltless or bland and as this dish is very bland with just the aroma of…
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Panchagadayi
Panchagadayi as the name suggests has five main ingredients – broken wheat , Moong dal , Chana dal , jaggery & coconut , This is to be especially prepared on Janmashtami and given…
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Basann oondo
If we say Godsaniche . the first item that we will remember is the Bassann Oondo / besan onndo .this is especially prepared during our important festivals like Deepavali ,, Samsarpadavo(New year) & weddings . When the temple aarattu is nearing , this will be made & stocked to serve the many guests…
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Thakka Ambat.
This is a “satvik” super tasty dish of GSB Cochin. We can see this dish served in temple feasts, marriage and other important feasts of GSB’s residing in central Kerala. This is a lip smacking dish, even a first time taster will surely fall in love with this dish. The…
Konkani Khann Anik Jevan 