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Easy rangoli designs - beginners

Though I have drawn all the designs myself personally I am thankful to my family for the inputs, information and help in drafting all the posts so far.  I have used the terms kolam  rangoli quite freely in all the posts. Probably there would have been differences based on classical (!) explanations in the past but today kolams can also be colourful like rangolis both in the free hand and dots type  I find that even the terms rangoli kolam and kolam rangoli are used at  present. The only area where I think kolam are different are in sikku kolam and arisi maavu kolam. Both are beautiful, challenging and can be intricate . Rangoli is muggulu in Telugu and so this post will be useful for those in search of small and simple muggulu for beginners.  This post   may have answers  kutty rangoli /kolam designs The rangoli in the image below is one of the basic designs that can be used for learning.   Form a star with two inverted triangles.   ...

Easy Arisi kadalai paruppu payasam

 One of the quickest and easiest payasam or kheer recipes that can be prepared in a jiffy.  For all festivals like Varamahalakshmi Pooja, Navarathri and Deepavali

It is possible that occasionally sufficient time may not be available for kheer naivedyam that needs lot of time due to preparation of other dishes for a festival.

On such occasions we can try this easy payasam. quick kheer recipe.  The simple procedure is given below.

Fry rice and gram dhall in little ghee separately. For one cup rice take quarter cup gram dhal.  Mix them and cook in a pressure cooker.

Add half cup jaggery and cardamom powder to little water in a vessel and heat it.

When the jaggery melts add the rice and gram dhal mixture and continue cooking for two to three minutes.

Once cooking is complete add grated coconut (optional). Remove the vessel from the stove, add fried cashew nuts. One more neivedhiyam or offering is ready for Puja.

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This blog is primarily on rangoli - a repository of thousands of designs some of them common, many created by me. Occasionally, I share information on festivals, festival related recipes also. 

 There was a comment in one of the posts from a reader and she said, "love reading through your notes and the pictures are perfect and I am going to try them". 

 In the era of reels, videos when I find that there are some who want to read my blog posts and view the pictures, I get motivated to continue.
Twelve years is a long time for a blog, I think, and it is just the two us, my husband and I who keep updating it.  

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