Ugadi Pachadi

Yugadi or Ugadi or "Samvatsradi" (Telugu: ఉగాది, Ugādi సంవత్సరాది:samvatsradi), Konkani/Marathi: युगादी yugādi, Kannada: ಯುಗಾದಿ,yugādi, is the New Year's Day for the people of the Deccan region of India. The name Yugadi or Ugadi is derived from the name "Yuga Adi", which means the beginning of a new age. It falls on the different day every year because the Hindu calendar is alunisolar calendar. The Saka calendar begins with the month of Chaitra (March–April) and Ugadi marks the first day of the new year. Chaitra is the first month in Panchanga which is the Indian calendar.

Ugadi Ingredients

 Ingredients

• 1 tea spoon Oil
• Salt as per taste
• 3 cups Water
• 1/2 tea spoon Red chili powder
• 1/2 tea spoon Mustard seeds
• small lemon size Tamarind ball
• Jaggery 4 tea spoon
• Neem flower 2 tea spoon
• 1 tea spoon Raw Mango peaces

 

Ugadi Pachadi

 

Method

• Take tamarind water into a pan and add the mango pieces into it and boil it properly.
• Keep it boiling till mango pieces starts tendering.
• Include the jaggery and until it melts properly and become a proper mixture.
• Keep it aside from the flame for some time.
• Take a medium pan and add the oil into it, hit it properly. Add the mustard seeds and neem flower and fry it till its color changes to brown
• Include salt and chili powder as per your taste.
• Add this neem flower tadka to the mango and tamarind juice.
• Now it is ready to serve.