5-471: [REDACTED] Look up pongal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pongal may refer to: Pongal (dish) , a South Indian meal prepared from rice, milk and other ingredients prepared during the festival Pongal (festival) or Thai Pongal, an annual Tamil people festival, which is celebrated for planting crops during the month of Thai Pongal River ,
10-552: A rice and lentil porridge similar to the South Asian staple khichdi . It is made with black pepper , ginger , turmeric , and sometimes asafoetida , cashews , cumin , curry leaves , ghee (clarified butter), mung beans , and salt. In South India, it is commonly eaten for breakfast with coconut chutney and Indian filter coffee . Sakkarai (sweet) pongal is made with jaggery , cardamom , cashews, and sometimes ghee , golden raisins , nutmeg , and salt. It
15-625: A river in Espírito Santo, Brazil See also [ edit ] Thai Pongal (film) , a 1980 Indian Tamil-language film Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Pongal . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pongal&oldid=1220270995 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
20-612: Is associated with the Pongal festival, whose name means "to boil over" or "overflow." The festival thanks the Sun deity for the sunlight that makes the rice harvest possible. Therefore, the tradition calls for offering the fresh harvest of rice cooked in boiling milk to the deity. While the pongal is cooking, onlookers sometimes shout with joy, " Pongalo pongal! " ('Let the pongal rise up!'). All pongal varieties are made with cow's milk. Venn or ven (hot) pongal has been described as
25-620: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Pongal (dish) Pongal (lit. 'to boil over') is a South Indian and Sri Lankan dish of rice cooked in boiling milk. Its preparation is the main custom associated with the Pongal festival . It is also eaten as a breakfast food. A part of Tamil cuisine , varieties include venn (hot) pongal , sakkarai (sweet) pongal , kozhi (chicken) pongal , and sanyasi pongal . It has been described as "very dear to (the) Tamil people ." Pongal
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