Tamil New Year’s Day or Varusha Pirappu or Tamil Puthandu is celebrated in the beginning of Chithirai-the first month in the Tamil Calendar year. On this day people wear new clothes and relish festive food. Maanga Pachadi or raw mango pachadi is a must in the New Year’s menu. It is a sweet, sour and bitter dish made with raw mangoes, jaggery and neem flowers.
Tamil New Year Recipes
Given below is a list of dishes prepared on that day (Tamil New Year festival menu)
Rice
Payasam recipes (find varieties of payasam/Kheer recipes)
Cabbage curry or plantian curry or any vegetable curry without onion and garlic (curry recipes) or any stir fry and kootu
Maanga Pachadi (Raw mango pachadi – a must for Tamil New Year)
Vadai or paruppu vada without onion and garlic or Crispy Cabbage Paruppu vada
Vazhaipoo Vadai
Keerai Vadai
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Love all these festive foods.
Yummy recipes... Than oh puthandu vaazhthukkal...
Happy New Year..
what are you going to prepare for the festival? have a great new year celebration Padhu.
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Love the collections...Thanks for sharing...
iniya puthandu nalvazhthukkal,yummy collections all are very tempting...
Detectable collection of dishes !!! Yummy !!!!
Wow...every dish seems to be so yummy...I love mango pachdi the most...
Happy New Year to you and your love ones