People do not take the usual rice and curry on the domahi or samkranti days for their lunch. What are the different kinds of food items that people have for lunch on this particular day
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Makar sankrati is the solar eventi is one of the hindu festivals that falls on the 14th of the Janurary.
Astrologically, makar sankranti celebrates the Sun's transition in Capricon which marks the advent of longer days with ample sunshine for crops.
Like all Indian festivals, food plays a important part in Makar sankranti which is celebrated across the country with different traditions.
Some of the dishes that are prepared during the festival are mentioned below:
1. Puran poli:
Nother Maharashtrian delicacy that makes Makar Sankranti one of our most favourite festivals is puran poli,which is a sweet flatbread stuffed with sweet and crumbly moong-based filling.
The famous breakfast dish is also prepared during Diwali and Naraka Chaturdashi celebrations.
2. Makara chaula:
Makara chaula is a delicious blend of fresh harvested rice, jaggery, milk, chhena, banana, and sugarcane.
It is prepared in almost every Odia household during Sankranti.
Once the mixture is offered to God, it is then distributed to everybody.
3. Khichdi:
Moong beans cooked with rice and a pool of rustic spices, khichdiis more than just a comfort food for Indians.
People in Bihar make delicious khichdi and enjoy it with a generous dollop of ghee on Sankranti too.
It is often teamed with fried veggies and chutney for a wholesome meal.
Answer :
The lunch taken on the day of domahi is not rice and curry but chira, pitha, curd, and so on. On special preparation is mah - karai ( Mah kare ) a combination of roasted rice,black gram, sesame and pieces of ginger.
Another Preparation is takeli - pitha, shtled rice powder steamed on the mouth of a small pitcher on a kettle . It is a kind of idli but larger .
Another kind of preparation of sungi pitha, moist rice powder put in a green tube and roasted in fire, the ingredient mixed wit the powder used to be salt but now a days some people prefer sweet ,in upper Assam it is known as Sunga saul. The Sticky bora rice steamed in a bamboo tube.
No meat is allowed in domahi or Sankranti day. The lunch being made up of Chira, Curb etc.The evening meal consists of rice, curry of block gram, fried yam an so on. Next day at noon it is customary to take a little left. Over rice Kept Soaked in water and left over dal.
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