{"id":5210,"date":"2020-01-06T12:38:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T12:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sssbalvikas.in\/Healthy_Food_for_Healthy_Body\/?p=5210"},"modified":"2020-01-07T15:47:29","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T15:47:29","slug":"tiruvadirai-or-arudra-darisanam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sssbalvikas.in\/Healthy_Food_for_Healthy_Body\/tiruvadirai-or-arudra-darisanam\/","title":{"rendered":"TIRUVADIRAI KAZHI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arudra Darshanam or Tiruvadirai is celebrated when the Star Arudra coincides with the full moon night of the Tamil month Margazhi (Dec-Jan).<\/p>\n<p>Thiruvadirai is majorly celebrated with great enthusiasm in Chidambaram where there is a shrine dedicated solely to Lord Nataraja. All day there are holy baths and pujas conducted in the temples.\u00a0At the end of the day a special dish known as Kazhi is offered to the Lord.<\/p>\n<p>This Thiruvathirai kazhi is made of\u00a0 rice, jaggery, moong dal, coconut, cardomam and\u00a0 ghee.\u00a0Let us all make this Prasadam for our beloved Lord Nataraja!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sssbalvikas.in\/Healthy_Food_for_Healthy_Body\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/01-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5234\" src=\"https:\/\/sssbalvikas.in\/Healthy_Food_for_Healthy_Body\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/01-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wash rice : Fry the rice to golden brown<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sssbalvikas.in\/Healthy_Food_for_Healthy_Body\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5235\" src=\"https:\/\/sssbalvikas.in\/Healthy_Food_for_Healthy_Body\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Grind the rice to the coarse powder<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sssbalvikas.in\/Healthy_Food_for_Healthy_Body\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5236\" src=\"https:\/\/sssbalvikas.in\/Healthy_Food_for_Healthy_Body\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Soak moong dal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sssbalvikas.in\/Healthy_Food_for_Healthy_Body\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5237\" src=\"https:\/\/sssbalvikas.in\/Healthy_Food_for_Healthy_Body\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cook the moong dal in a open pan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sssbalvikas.in\/Healthy_Food_for_Healthy_Body\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/06.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5238\" src=\"https:\/\/sssbalvikas.in\/Healthy_Food_for_Healthy_Body\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Grate 1 cup of coconut and roast half of the grated coconut along with cashews to golden brown<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sssbalvikas.in\/Healthy_Food_for_Healthy_Body\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/07.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5240\" src=\"https:\/\/sssbalvikas.in\/Healthy_Food_for_Healthy_Body\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dissolve jaggery in water<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sssbalvikas.in\/Healthy_Food_for_Healthy_Body\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/08.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5239\" src=\"https:\/\/sssbalvikas.in\/Healthy_Food_for_Healthy_Body\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Add cooked moong dal to the jaggery syrup and allow it to boil<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sssbalvikas.in\/Healthy_Food_for_Healthy_Body\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/09.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5241\" src=\"https:\/\/sssbalvikas.in\/Healthy_Food_for_Healthy_Body\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/09.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Add the grated coconut<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sssbalvikas.in\/Healthy_Food_for_Healthy_Body\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/10-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5242\" src=\"https:\/\/sssbalvikas.in\/Healthy_Food_for_Healthy_Body\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/10-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Add the rice powder to the jaggery mixture and stir continuously<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sssbalvikas.in\/Healthy_Food_for_Healthy_Body\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/11-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5243\" src=\"https:\/\/sssbalvikas.in\/Healthy_Food_for_Healthy_Body\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/11-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tiruvadirai Kazhi is ready for offering!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arudra Darshanam or Tiruvadirai is celebrated when the Star Arudra coincides with the full moon night of the Tamil month Margazhi (Dec-Jan). Thiruvadirai is majorly celebrated with great enthusiasm in Chidambaram where there is a shrine dedicated solely to Lord Nataraja. All day there are holy baths and pujas conducted in the temples.\u00a0At the end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-festival_recipes","category-tiruvadirai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sssbalvikas.in\/Healthy_Food_for_Healthy_Body\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sssbalvikas.in\/Healthy_Food_for_Healthy_Body\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sssbalvikas.in\/Healthy_Food_for_Healthy_Body\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sssbalvikas.in\/Healthy_Food_for_Healthy_Body\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sssbalvikas.in\/Healthy_Food_for_Healthy_Body\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5210"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sssbalvikas.in\/Healthy_Food_for_Healthy_Body\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5247,"href":"https:\/\/sssbalvikas.in\/Healthy_Food_for_Healthy_Body\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5210\/revisions\/5247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sssbalvikas.in\/Healthy_Food_for_Healthy_Body\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sssbalvikas.in\/Healthy_Food_for_Healthy_Body\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sssbalvikas.in\/Healthy_Food_for_Healthy_Body\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sssbalvikas.in\/Healthy_Food_for_Healthy_Body\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}