Karadaiyan Nombu is a major Tamil Nadu festival which is celebrated when Tamil month Maasi ends and month Panguni starts. Karadai is the name of a unique Nivedyam (offering for God) prepared on this day and Nombu means Vratham or Fasting. On this day women worship Goddess Gowri and offer her Karadaiyan Nombu Nivedyam. After Puja (prayers) women tie the sacred yellow cotton thread known as Manjal Saradu or Nombu Charadu for well-being of their husband. Married women observe it for long lives of their husband while unmarried girls observe it to get ideal person as their husband. I’m sharing the Vellam Nombu Adai recipe todaywhich we make for this ocassion.
Karadaiyan Nombu Adai is a very traditional dish and we make both sweet and savory adai for this occasion. The sweet version is made with jaggery and we call it Vellam Nombu adai..
Karadaiyan Nombu Adai / Vellam Nombu Adai
Recipe Type: Snack
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 4
Ingredients
- Rice Flour – 1 Cup
- Grated Jaggery – 1 cup
- Water – 2 cups
- Black eyed Beans/karamani/ Lobhia – 2 tbsp
- Green Cardamom Powder – 1/2 tsp
- Fresh Coconut – 2 tbsp (chopped into small pieces)
- Cooking Oil – 1 tsp
Instructions
- Wash and soak black-eyed beans for 30 minutes. Boil it in some water for 5-10 minutes and keep it aside.
- Add water and jaggery in pan and bring it to boil. When jaggery completely melts in water,strain the impurities.
- Again heat the pan with jaggery water and bring it to boil and add coconut, black eyed beans and green cardamom powder.
- Lower the flame and slowly add the rice flour to it and mix it thoroughly to avoids lumps. When it starts coming together, remove from flame.
- When it is warm ,grease your hand with oil/ghee and make small balls of it.
- Grease a plastic sheet and flatten the balls in a round shape and make a hole in center.
- Grease an idli plate and place these dics on it. Steam it for 8-10 minutes and its ready to be served.
wow! this looks soo yumm..
wow priya pass me the lovely treat this is looking so yummy 😛
yummy! hungry after seeing this!
These snacks sound wonderful. I'd never heard of them before. You're sharing so many different cooking methods and ingredients with the people who live far away. Visiting from England through the UBC.
This look yummy! I was able to get the last one done successfully. And i must say it is yummy.
This one look like something i can't do without.
yummy one .. looks great
Awesome and tempting. I simply love the scent of cardamom.
Very inviting dish. Never heard about it.Since steaming im sure itz super healthy.
They look yummy!
I'm just off to make my own lunch!
Never tried before…….. It looks super delicious. Will try this!!
Sounds very delicious but never tried….
Thank for sharing the history behind this delight. Looks good
I have never tried something like this, interesting 🙂
An interesting story behind this dish, Priya! It looks so good too!