Navaratri Day 9 Recipes – #DeviPrasadam

Siddhidatri is the ninth form of the Goddess Durga – Siddhi means supernatural power or meditative ability, and Dhatri means giver or awarder. She is seated on a lotus and is four-armed. She bestows Siddhis or meditative powers to those who invoke her.

#DeviPrasadam for Day 8:

1. Akkara Adisal
2. Maanga Saadam or Mango Rice
3. Moong Dal Sundal

Recipe for One Pot One Shot (OPOS) Akkara Adisal

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Ingredients:

• Jaggery – 1 cup
• Water – 3/4 cup
• Raw Rice – 1/2 cup
• Mung Dal – 1/8 cup
• Cardamom – 1/4 tsp
• Milk – 2 cups
• Ghee – 1/4 cup
• Cashews – a handful
• Condensed milk – 4 tsp

Method:

1. Soak rice and dal for about 1/2 hour.
2. Mix the jaggery with 3/4 cup water, heat and filter
3. Add to a 3L stainless steel pressure cooker.
4. Take another vessel and mix the rice, milk, mung dal and cardamom in the vessel.
5. Keep this vessel amidst the jaggery water in the pressure cooker.
6. Cook for 15-20 minutes on medium flame.
7. Wait for pressure to settle.
8. Mix the contents of the inner vessel into the jaggery outer mixture.
9. Mix in the ghee, cashews and the condensed milk.

Recipe for Mango Rice or Maanga Saadam: (from Chitra Viswanathan’s blog and app)

• Basmati Rice – 1 cup
• Finely grated raw mango – 1 cup
• Salt to taste

To be ground:

• Red chilies
• Grated coconut – 2tbsp
• Mustard seeds – 1 tsp
• Turmeric- a pinch

Tempering:

• Oil – 3 tbsp
• Mustard seeds – 1 tsp
• Bengal gram dal – 2 tbsp (soak fo a while and drain)
• red chilies – 2
• Asafetida – 1/2 tsp
• Curry leaves – a few

Method:

1. Cook the rice and cool.
2. Heat oil and temper the ingredients.
3. Add the grated mango; cook till done.
4. Add the ground paste and fry till the raw smell is gone.
5. add this mixture to the rice with some salt.
6. Mix well – add a tsp of raw oil serving.