Makar Sankranti Food
Makar Sankranti festival is incomplete unless and until rich food is served among friends, family and relatives. The Makar Sankranti festival is also not different from the other Indian festivals. Lots of cooking takes place on this day as well. Makar Sankranti is a harvest festival celebrated all around India and what harvest festival goes on without delicious and mouth watering food.
One of these dishes is 'Bandaru laddu' - a famous Andhra sweet dish, the mere mention of which is enough to make one crave for it. Then another one is 'Ariselu' which is the most popular delicacy of South India. Any occasion is good enough to make 'Ariselu'. The last one is the 'Kajji Kaayalu', another mouth watering gracefulness that is made with a sweet stuffing.The procedure is slightly elaborate and time-consuming.
Makar Sankranti Food Menus
No festival in India is complete with food and so Makar Sankranti is no exception to this fact. It is one of the most awaited festivals in Bengal in terms of preparation of beautiful delicacies, which are not commonly prepared during the other times of the year. The recently harvested paddy, the jaggery happens to be some of the principal ingredients in preparation of Makar Sankranti recipes.
The many Makar Sankranti food and recipes include different kinds of sweet dishes, such as, "Pithey and Payesh", dishes made of till (sesame) and different types of 'Kichri'. This is one of the reason that the Makar Sankranti is also known as, 'Til Sankranti' or the 'Kichri Sankranti'. Some of the most well known Makar Sankranti dishes. They are:- Kichri
- Patisapta
- Gokul Pithe
- Malpua
- Payesh