Navratri Day 9: Haygriva 💜

Navratri Day 9: 💜The colour is Purple 💜. This colour is associated with spirituality, wisdom, and higher consciousness.💜 The spiritual power caretaker Goddess Siddhidatri is honored on the ninth day. 🙏🌹 Siddhi means supernatural power, and dhatri means the giver. She is the giver of supernatural powers to human beings. She blesses people with spiritual powers. Thus, people worship her to get rid of all sufferings in life.🙏🏻🌹

Hayagriva is a very popular sweet in Karnataka. It is extremely easy to make and very delicious. Hayagriva is an Udupi special recipe that is offered as a prasadam / naivedya. This prasadam is made of chana dal and jaggery.

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Ingredients:

· Chana dal (Split Bengal Gram) – 1 cup

· Water – 3 and half cups

· Jaggery (adjust as per your taste) – 1 ½ cup

· Dry grated coconut – 1.5 tbsp (or chunks)

· Cashew nuts (broken)

· Raisins

· Cardamom Powder – ¼ tsp

· Nutmeg Powder – 2 pinches

· Ghee – 2 tbsp

· Salt – less than ¼ tsp

Method:

· Wash the chana dal thoroughly, and soak it for 1 hour.

· Now take a pressure cooker add the drained chana dal. Add 4 cups of water Pressure cook for 4-5 whistles.

· Fry the cashew nuts, raisins in ghee and keep it aside. Fry the dry coconut too.

· Once the cooker de pressurizes naturally add the jaggery to the cooked chana dal.

· Let the chana dal cook in jaggery for 10-12 mins. Keep it on medium low flame. It will start thickening.

· Now add the nuts, raisins, dry coconut, cardamom powder and nutmeg powder.

· Finally add the ghee and give a good mix and turn off the flame.

· Hayagriva is ready to be offered to the Goddess as naivedyam.