Nuchinunde Special For Nagarapanchami

Nagarapanchami is a festival, that falls on the fifth day of the shravana masa. This year it falls on 19th of August, wednesday.

Nagarapanchami is a very scared festival for Hindu all over India. There are certain strict procedures that needs to be followed to perform the festival. One has to wake up early morning and take head bath. And wrap a wet cloth around them and do abhisheka (pour milk ) to the sculpted snake. Followed by turmeric and vermillion.

Significance Of Nag Panchami

During nagarapanchami, only a certain foods canbe prepared. Foods that contian oil should not be prepared. For example only idli, beaten rice, sweet kadabu and nuchinunde are perapred.

So, today we shall learn how to prepare nuchinunde for nagarapanchami.

Serves - 4
Preperation time - 10 min
Cooking time - 15 min

Ingredients:

• Toor dal - 2 cup ( soak it in water four four to five hours)
• Moong dal - 1 cup ( soak it in water four four to five hours)
• Bengal gram - 1 cup ( soak it in water four four to five hours)
• Pudina leaf - 1 cup
• Coriander strands - 10
• Coconut - 1 cup
• Asafoetida - 1 pinch
• Green chili - 5 to 6
• Banana leaf - 1
• Ghee - 2 tbsp
• Salt

10 Delicious Idli Recipes

Procedure

1. In the mixy jar, drain out the water and put the soaked toor dal, moong dal, bengal gram , pudina leaf, corainder strands, coconut, green chilli and salt.
2. Don't grind it into a fine paste, grind it to obtain a rough mixure.
3. Now, take the mixture and use your hands to make fine balls.
   
4. Let it not be too big or too small.
5. In the pressure cooker, add water.
   
6. Apply little ghee on the banana leaf and roll the fine balls in the banana leaf and keep it in the pressure cooker.
7. Do not put the weight on the pressure cooker.
8. Steam it for ten to fifteen mins.
9. Now, serve the hot and tasty nuchinunde with ghee and coconut chutney.