On bhogi day,wash and clean the entire house.Clean
doors,windows & keep turmeric,kumkum dots.If you have the practice of
burning old things,you can do it on this day.We used to discard the old
clothes.wash all the blankets,pillow cover,screen cloth.Wash the lamps and
other pooja vessels.Decorate it and keep it ready for next day pooja.If using
clay pot & stove buy them.If using cooker or brass pot,wash and keep it
ready.
On Pongal day,wake up at early morning 4am because we are supposed to do the pooja during sunrise at around 6am.So wake up early and take head bath.First make sambar,poriyal/kootu,pachadi and paruppu. Keep everything aside.It takes 45 minutes including chopping & cooking if you have two cookers in hand.My mom keeps Pongal in our backyard by using stone stove and brass pot wheras my MIL keeps pongal in gas stove.She uses brass or silver pot.
Tie the manjal kothu around the pot.Draw three lines with wet viboodhi
and keep a kumkum dot on the pot.Buy all the required ingredients for cooking
& pooja on this day and keep everything ready.On bhogi night,after
finishing the dinner,clean the gas stove and draw three lines using
viboodhi(viboodhi Pattai) and place kumkum dots on all the sides of gas
stove.Refer picture to get the idea.
If you have the practice of making
suzhiyan, adhirasam & obbattu, prepare them and store in a box.soak the
urad dal & grind vada batter.Refrigerate it overnight.If you wish,you can
wash the entrance and draw the rangoli too.The next day morning,you will be
having enough time to make neivedyam recipes and perform pooja quickly.Clean
the pooja room and draw a rangoli in the place where you are going to spread
the banana leaves for neivedyam.
On Pongal day,wake up at early morning 4am because we are supposed to do the pooja during sunrise at around 6am.So wake up early and take head bath.First make sambar,poriyal/kootu,pachadi and paruppu. Keep everything aside.It takes 45 minutes including chopping & cooking if you have two cookers in hand.My mom keeps Pongal in our backyard by using stone stove and brass pot wheras my MIL keeps pongal in gas stove.She uses brass or silver pot.
So make pongal according to your family practice.Now keep the brass
pot or cooker. Make
sweet pongal and paal pongal.When it starts to boil over, shout out
"pongalo pongal".Pray for your family’s wellbeing and prosperity.
After making pongal,keep it near the pooja room.Make the urad dal vada at
the end to maintain crispness.Now everything is ready for pooja !!
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