Nagpanchmi is a very big festival in Karnataka.
It’s called Undi haba or Jhokali haba, haba being festival undi is ladoos and jhokali is swings! Yes, it is a festival of ladoos and swings!!
There is shenga undi (peanut ladoos), yellu undi (til ladoos), rava undi (rava ladoos), besan undi (gram flour ladoos), churmuri undi (puffed rice ladoos) and then there are swings put out on trees and so its jhokali haba. Preparations for the festival begin well in advance chakali/kadboli, chatnipudi and ladoos of course.
In this day the snake is worshiped and people go to the snake hills and in case you live in urban areas then the picture or a model of the snake is worshipped.
On this day the married girls visit their maternal homes and are gifted with saris and these ladoos.
One of the ladoos made in this season is Tambit. It is standard in all houses.
What I am writing about today is about Tambit! Now Pappa knows I will not be coming home nor will my sister so he makes a parcel of these gifts and sends them across!!!
Yes these are not what I have made they are professionally made and gifted to me by my father.
Tambit
Ingredients:
- 1 cup of puthne/ roasted gram
- 1 cup jaggery
- ½ cup ghee+ more if required
- 2 tblspn dry coconut
- 2 tblspn til
- 2 tblspn khus khus
- 1 teaspoon elichi/cardamom
Method:
- Put the puthane in a mixer and grind it to a fine powder. Sieve it. Measure it this. This has to be one cup.
- Mix puthane, dry coconut, til, khus khus and elichi/cardamom powder.
- In a thick bottomed kadhai/wok add the ghee and the jaggery. Heat on low flame. When it bubbles at the edges remove from flame.
- Mix all the ingredients. Quickly make balls but they need to be flat on top.
- In case the dough becomes dry add some hot ghee.
Notes:
Since the whole thing dries fast it’s better to make the dough if it may be called so in small batches.
This is a part of Blogging Marathon where are blogging with alphabets.
KP says
Nice to know about the customs observed on nag panchami and the different type of ladoos..
The picture of Tambit looks alluring though you could have told what puthane stands for
themadscientistskitchen says
Thanks Sir will take a pic and upload.I used to take pics of all stpes in the past only now I am going backwards. Will try and improve.
Sowmya says
Wow very nicely done.. Appreciate parents for taking so much efforts.. When we were in US, my parents used to send stuff via parcel or thru somebody for festivals..
Priya says
You are lucky Archana to get this beautiful tambit from ur father.. tambit looks fantastic, wat is puthne ?? i dont have any clue apart from puttu flour, am i wrong?
themadscientistskitchen says
Puthane is roasted gram Priya. The yellow split gram
Srivalli says
Very nice reading about the customs and the pooja and so many laddos Archana..what is puthane?
manjula says
very nice recipe and new one to me 🙂 very very delicious looking ladoos 🙂 very nice post !!
Janani says
nice interesting recipe loving it so much.
Chef Mireille says
so soft and yummy
cookingwithsapana says
These ladoo looks delicious , but pls tell me what's puthne ?
themadscientistskitchen says
Puthane is roasted gram. The split yellow ones.
Pavani says
Such a traditional dish.. Yummy looking tambit 🙂
pumpkinfarmfood says
i am sucker for traditional things, this was a lovely post explaining karnataka's way of nagpanchami, being daughters is so lovely, especially when we recieved such gifts..this is a lovely recipe
pinksocks says
Whoa... Never heard of the dish and the tradition 🙂 Thanks for the post
PJ says
I went home for Nagpanchami this year and got all the goodies :). Now I want to have that Tambit!!!
Rajani says
So, Nagapanchami is a good time to visit people in Karnataka..With so much ladoos at home, they are bound to share some ;P...
Its nice that your father sends these across these to you. Makes one happy to receive a parcel from one's parents and all the more if there is some edible in there 😉
harini says
Love them!!
Preeti Garg says
Fantastic recipe.
veena says
I miss my place seeing all these karnataka recipes...brings back the nag panchami memories and the swing that there tied to the tree...looks lovely
Gayathri Kumar says
Looks very delicious Archana. You have explained the festival very well..