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Hereby with enclosed Navarathri kolu photos, this is include more theams, see all my friend

Ingredients: Green gram ( Pachchai Payaru) 1 cup, Green chilli...2, cocnut Poo....1/4 cup, Mango.......2 tsps of scrapped mangopieces, Salt.... for taste, Mustard.... 1 tsp cooking oil...2 tsp, scrapped carrot and corriander leaves ..... each 3 tsp for garnishing, cucumber small pieces ...... few for decoration. Method of preparatin: Soak the green gram overnight. Strain the water and Keep it in a closed vessel for few hours and allow it to sprout. When it is fully sproutted, keep it in a vessel and STEAM it in the cooker for 5 minutes. (If it is cooked with water then the outer skin gets seperated, so only steam it without water). Grind 3 tsp of cocunutpoo, mango pieces and green chilli into a corse paste. Heat a thava, add 2 tsp of cooking oil, put the mustard , when it flutters add the grinded paste and fry till it becomes dry. Add the steamed gram to this with required salt to taste and in slow flame mix it well . Keep it aside for cooling. When you want to serve, garnish it with little fresh coconut poo, chopped coriander leaves and scraped carrot. I call it HEALTHY aince Less oil used, sprouted greengram is full of nutrition. and Only fresh coconut,corriander and carrot used for decoration. Making time 15 to 20 minutes.(5 mts for steaming, 5 mts for grinding and frying the masala and 5 mts for decorating).

Ingredients: Lobia dal : 2 cups, soaked for 2 hrs, and pressure cooked till soft but not mushy. Salt to taste Grated fresh coconut: 1/4 th cup. Amchur powder : 1 tsp. Oil for seasoning : 3 to 4 tsp,(preferably sunflower oil) Mustard seeds : 1 tsp. Urad dal : 2 tsp Curry leaves : 2 sprigs Aesofotida(Hing) : 1/4 tsp To make into a paste: 1 bunch coriander leaves, 3 to 4 green chillies, 1 inch piece ginger. Method: In a kadai, take the oil. When hot add the mustard seeds and urad dal. When the mustards splutter, reduce the heat of the stove and add the curry leaves and hing. Stir a little and then add the paste of coriander leaves and chillies. Stir till the raw smell goes. Add the lobia dal, add enough salt , 1/2 tsp of haldi and amchur powder and stir well. Keep the vessel covered on low heat for a few minutes. Add the grated coconut and stir well. Take off the stove and serve either hot or cold.

Got mom to prepare sunDal/ Usali for the last day pooja. Ingredients: Black/brown Chick Peas(channa/ kaDale kaaLu) - 1 cup (Can be replaced with Kabul channa too) Green Gram (moong/ hesaru kaaLu) - 1 cup Green Peas (mutter/ bataaNi kaaLu) - 1 cup Black eyed peas (Alasande kaaLu) Groudnuts - 1 cup Water 9-10 cups Salt - 1.5 table spoon/ as per taste. Seasoning: Oil - 3-4 tea-spoons/ as needed Mustard Seeds 1 tea-spoon A pinch of Asafoetida (Hing) Green Chillies - 2-3/ as per taste chopped Curry leaves - 2-3 stalks Garnishing: Coriander Leaves chopped - 2 table-spoons/as needed Grated fresh coconut - 1 Cup Grated Carrot - 1 Cup Lemon juice - 2 table spoons/ as per taste Grated Raw Mango as per taste (seasonal as we get only during Feb/March) :) American sweet corn - 1/2 Cup/ as per taste This should serve for 5 people, but depends on the size of the measuring cup :). Method: Wash the pulses throughly and then soak all the pulses except ground nuts in water for 3-4 hours. Now need to cook all the pulses with ground nuts in a cooker. Switch on the stove. Place the cooker, put all the pulses into cooker, add water (should be 2inches above the pulses - i am sure all of you aware of this measure) add salt as per taste. Cook until you hear one whistle. After the cooker cools, remove the pulses and drain the water (btw do not throw the water, you can use this make some soup :) ). Now add the seasoning, take a thick bottom vessel or a pan, pour oil, once it gets hot add mustard seeds, wait for to it to crackle, then add hing, you start to smell the aroma, now add curry leaves, green chillies, reduce the flame/ put to sim. Now add the cooked pulses and mix well. The last step is to garnish, add coriander leaves, coconut, carrot, corn and mix well. Switch off the stove, add lemon juice, mix well and serve. I have not put grated mango as its seasonal and also it was not added in yesterday's preparation :). Normally this gets added after the chilles and cook 1 or 2-mins till it becomes little tender. My sister wanted to make Corn-Pomegranate kosambari (salad), hence had got them. This gave us the thought of adding Corn & Carrots to give a twist to mom's recipe. We all enjoyed this making and eating. Give it a try.... & enjoy maaDi ;-) :) :)

We have housed 3 sets of Marapachi pairs in our golu. One very old about 70 years old and very new brought in this year.

Wish you all Happy Navaratri Festival Times. Vijayadasami day marks victory of good over evil. Hence on this Vijayadasami day I pray god to provide all of my friends with lots of successes in the time to come.

My golu consists of 3 padis to the left, 3 to the right and one on the bottom. The Top padi from the left consists of Guruvayurappan, Ambal, Durga devi, Laxmi, Saraswati, Radha and Krishna, Rukmai and Vitthal, Kalasham and Krishna and Radha along with cows enjoying the flute played by Lord krishna. The second padi from the left has Valli, Devyani along with Lord Kartikh, Ragavendra Guru, Vasudevan and krishna,Lord Visnu in garuda, baby Krishna in zoola, Balaji and padmavati. The third padi has Ram, Laxman, Seetha and Hanuman, shankaracharya, Titwala Ganapathy, Shivan-Parvathy and many devis. The bottom Padi has Chettiyar, fruits, vegetables and Marapachi. I have decorated a gauri doll and have draped a blue saree proper 5.5 mtr along with jewellery decoration. She welcomes all the guest. My sons helped me in making a small village near the Tirupathy temple, that we kept in the top of a mountain. All the grass and the plants in the garden are real. Apart from the padis and normal Kolu I have a theme each year. This year my theme is "SAVE THE GIRL CHILD" I painted various pictures in a ply and wrote a few captions in it, like Man thinks he is a HERO, but if he removes HER, he'll just remain a O. Real men dont use violence etc. In front of that i have kept Rajarajeshwari Devi, along with SouthIndian marriage and Rath Yatra on either sides. I stay in Mumbai, I have a big social circle and people from many culture visit us for Haldi Kumkum. I wanted every lady to spread the message of saving the girl child...by educating their servant maid. I believe EACH ONE TEACH ONE. I had approx. 96 ladies visiting my house...even if 50% of the ladies follow what message i had to spread and act on it i will be satisfied. I circulated them printed sheets of the importance of self rights, acting against violence, educating girl child, fighting for their rights etc along with the help line numbers for women rights. My theme has been appreciated by the Times Of India Bombay Times, on the 21st of October, Navratri Special in page number 21 as SOCIAL MESSAGE THIS NAVRATRI. THANK YOU Regards Lata Ravi

:) Hi Friends I made this sundal for Saraswathi pooja. Recipe : Ingredients small kondakadali ( brown) -250gms Potato Medium size -2 cut into small cubes. Grated Coconut - 1 cup Green Chilli - 2 Nos. Sundal Podi - red chilli 2, urad dhal, channa dhal, dhaniya, dry roasted and powdered. For Seasoning- oil, mustard, urad dhal, curry leaves. Procedure : Soak, kadalai overnight or 6 hours and pressure cook till soft with salt drain and keep. Blanch the potato and fry in oil till crisp. Heat oil in kadai add mustard, urad dhal, curry leaves then add kadali fry for two minutes then add potato cubes and coconut and fry another two mins. then add sundal podi and switch off the stove. Your sundal is done. Please try this children will love it. Please give your feedback.

Hi Everybody, I have not heard about this contest and for the first time i am entering in the contest. We never had enough time to prepare for our Golu this year as we had my mother in law's first year shardham before the Golu and due to that we could not able to arrange it properly. But anyways, I have uploaded our Golu. Awaiting eagerly for your comments. Thanking you, Smrithi Kumar Iyer

SEVEN STEPS GOLU FIRST STEP - RAM-SITA-LAKSHMAN-HANUMAN SECOND STEP - MUSICAL GANESH/MURUGAN THIRD STEP - ASTALAKSHMI/DASAVATHAR FORUTH STEP - AMRIT MANTHAN FIFTH STEP - MARAPACHI BOMMAI/THALAI AATUM POIKAAL KUTHURAI SIXTH STEP - KALYANA KATCHI SEVENTH STEP - AMMAN KALASAM WITH DURGA/LAKSHMI/SARASWATI CRICKET CLT20 ON ONE SIDE OF THE STEPS GARUDALVAR OORVALAM REACHING TEMPLE / SMALL ZOO NEAR THE TEMPLE/ CHETTIAR AYYA/AMMA ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STEPS

Hi all, posting below is a traditional receipe called kara vadai.We make it one day as naivedyam during navarathris. INGREDIENTS Boiled rice 1cup Urad dal 3/4 cup chana dal 1/2 cup Toor dal 1/2 cup green chillies 4 red chillies 4 ginger 1" piece salt to tast asofoetida a pinch curry leaf a bunch oil for frying. METHOD Soak each of the dal and rice separately for 2-3 hours.First grind rice coarsely.The grind urad dal nicely.Now grind the two dals along with chillies,ginger and curry leaf and asafoetida coarsely.Now mix all together.add salt to taste.heat oil in a pan.now deep fry these kara vadai. (you can drop the batter in oil using hand or spoon). you can serve hot kara vadai with nice spicy coconut chutney.It is a big hit in our house.U can serve with sauce also for children. Hope u all like it. Regards, riaiyer.

Hi! This is the Golu we used to install during Navarathri Festival at our home at Jain Nagar.

I wanted to try a different sundal apart from the regular once and the first think comes to my mind is Sweet corn sundal. I tried this sundal at home with some spice powder for additional flavour. No. of Serve - 2 Cooking Time - 15 - 20 mts Sweet Corn Sundal Recipe - Ingredients Sweet Corn - 1 cup Grated Coconut - 1 tbsp Salt - to taste To roast & grind: Red Chilly - 1 no. Coriander Seed - 1 tsp Channa Dal - 2 tsp To Temper: Mustard Seed - 1 tsp Urad Dal - 1 tsp Red Chilly - 1 no. Curry Leaves - few Oil - 1 tsp Method 1. Pressure cook sweet corn for 2-3 whistles or until soft. Once it cooled down, separate the corn and keep it aside. Dry roast the ingredients listed under 'To roast and grind''and grind it to a semi fine powder, Keep it aside. 2. Heat oil in a pan, add the items mentioned under “To Temper” one by one. Saute for a minute. Then add cooked corn, and spice powder. 3.Add required salt , then coconut, give a quick stir. Saute for 2 mins till all is combined and switch it off. Adjust the spice powder and red chilly according to your taste buds. Serve hot or warm.

Hello all, Krishna and Rukmini are the made-for-each-other couple. Though Radhe was his childhood friend who made him happy, Rukmini, throughout her life, stood by Krishna in all his ups and downs. She is a perfect woman and perfect wife. That is how I feel. That is the reason, I thought I will transform the Marapachi dolls into Krishna and Rukmini. I did not buy or use very valuable commodities to decorate the dolls, but used only available-at-home things and a few low-cost accessories from the shop. I fell in love with my own creation, as they looked fantabulous to my eyes, and the dolls perfectly matched the couple, unless otherwise told. This is my first-ever contest in my life participated. Let me have your views about this. Thank you all. Usha Subramanyam

Golu starts from the entrance with saving the trees and bharath matha showing our women of each states and national animal,bird and flower. and once we enter we cover up tirupati perumal thaayar..garuda vahanam,srinivsa perumal kalyanam and general village life. as we progress we have graha lakshmi and the main golu with religion in one side and metamorphosis of women in another.

We have kept the tradition of keeping Marapachi dolls in our Golu. This year we purchased new dolls and decorated as Lord Vishnu and Rukmani. I wish all the contestants a happy Navarathri 2012

I have 2 pairs of Gowri Bommais. They are dressed differently each year according to the theme of the year. This year’s theme is Lava -Kusa capturing Lord Rama’s Aswamedha horse in the ashram of Valmiki with Sita

Cow drawn on pongal day with colored sugarcanes. Kolam drawn around them.

Hanuman Temple with Steps. Hanuman is carrying sanjeevini hill, the lamps are drawn, there is sea below on which Hanuman is flying

This is a maakolam with dot count 9 to 5 with 2-1 dots on all 6 sides. Hope you like it.