Discover the authentic recipe for Chakarai Pongal, a sweet and buttery South Indian dish perfect for Makar Sankranti. Serves ...

It is a dish made primarily from rice and lentils, often enhanced with ghee, spices, and other ingredients. Pongal is celebrated during the harvest festival of Sankranti, a time of thanksgiving to ...

Kaanum Pongal marks the end of the Pongal celebrations. The word ‘kaanum’ in Tamil means ‘to visit’ and so on the day of Kaanum Pongal families hold reunions. There is also a tradition of presenting ...

Different communities of India celebrate it as a harvest festival and essential ingredients include sesame ... here are two recipes—one for pongal and the other for til laddoo.

Chewing on sugar cane, digging into delicious sweet pongal, and catching a Test at Chepauk were all part of January festivities in the Madras of yore. The Pongal Test was very much part of the ...