Today I celebrated Aadi pirappu /Aadi pandigai ( Aadi festival) in my house by roasting coconut in direct fire. In Tamil we call this as “Thengai suduthal /thengai sudum pandigai”. We stuff the coconut with sesame, jaggery pooranam and roast it in fire. Some people also call this as vedi thengai. This kind of celebration may be new to some of you. Its a customary practice among the people in and around villages of Salem District, Namakkal and Dharmapuri district, Tamil nadu. My mom follows this every year.
Usually my mom makes pooja in the evening around 6 pm by offering this roasted coconut for Vinayagar (Lord Ganesh) and Amman on Aadi 1st day. This year 2024, Aadi 1 falls on 17th of July. In Tamil nadu, special sticks (Alinjil kuchi and Vadha narayanan kuchi in Tamil) and readymade pooranam/stuffings are available in all the market. Being in Bangalore, I couldn’t find these things here. So I used a long kulfi stick for holding the coconut, asked my mom for the stuffing part and celebrated Aadi 1 festival for the first time in my house.
By God’s grace, everything went very well and I was totally satisfied. As this practice is almost forgotten among our generation, I wanted to have a record of this festival and the recipe in my blog for my future reference and of course for the Salem people who look for this festival. Wish you all a very happy Aadi Pandigai / Aadi Pirappu !
Lets see the procedure for stuffing and roasting coconut in detail.
Do check out my another aadi pirappu recipe - Brahmin's style Aadi Thengai Paal Payasam recipe
Aadi thengai suduthal recipe for aadi pirappu/aadi pandigai !
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Enjoy this roasted coconut pieces with the stuffing. It tastes yummm..
Lets see the procedure for stuffing and roasting coconut in detail.
Do check out my another aadi pirappu recipe - Brahmin's style Aadi Thengai Paal Payasam recipe
Aadi thengai pandigai recipe
Aadi thengai suduthal recipe for aadi pirappu/aadi pandigai !
Cuisine: Indian
Category: Festival recipes
Serves: 2
Prep time: 60 Minutes
Cook time: 15 Minutes
Total time: 75 Minutes
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AADI THENGAI SUDUTHAL PANDIGAI - METHOD
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Enjoy this roasted coconut pieces with the stuffing. It tastes yummm..
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34 comments :
This is something new for me, thanks for sharing this tradition...Wish you good luck on this festival
Thanks Gauri :)
Will definetly try before the end of Aadi........blog is very nice.
Thank u so much sir :)
super chitra...ths z d frst tym i m hearing abt ths prasadam...usually v make adi paal n vada n offer to god!!! lovely recipe... wil try 2 make it fr sure ... !
Definitely very new to me and good to see the new tradition... Happy Aadi aks...:)
Thanks Anitha. Do try it. Thanks da viji.Wish u the same :)
totally new to me... Happy Aadi Chitra
Being a salemite, really missed this festival. Thanks for posting and really touched too !
Thanks for sharing such an authentic recipe Chitra
I too miss it very badly after marriage. So i wanted to try this year to satisy my craves :)
This is the first time I am hearing about this, very traditional one Chitra, thanks for sharing it, I would love to try this, my only doubt, the coconut will crack, it'll not burst rt..
Super recipe chitra........ Looks interesting and inviting!!
I'm hearing this for the first time. Thanks for sharing. Nicely explained with beautiful pics.
Beautiful, I could smell it here :)
wow .. jus awesome..
wonderful recipe chitra , I had hear about this festival from a friend and now I see this thengai sutadhu :) very well explained , thanks for sharing !!
lovely post Chitra...I am missing it badly...you have done it so well and the coconut looks delicious!
No Hema, it will not burst...only the shell cracks!
Thanks for the reply Sangee :) U must be knowing it very well :) Yes Hema,it won't burst.Just adjust the flame whenever necessary to prevent over roasting !
Though i have heard about this , never tasted though. Love to taste this ,must be yum for sure. Nicely explained
lovely tradition.. i had never heard of it. can't imagine the taste of this coconut.. im sure they must be yummy...
wow..this is sure a keeper dear,have never seen or heard before..nicely explained :)
I love this thengai and have enjoyed a lot in childhood roasted the coconut with neighbours and frnd together..my native is Salem as well.was just asking mom why this is done and the reason behind this special receipes on aadi 1st and it's unique to Salem alone.Any idea..?
I moved to Salem last October and this was my first experience with the Adi Pirrappu festival. My maid roasted a coconut for me. Thoroughly enjoyed the stuffed roasted coconut. Thanks for sharing this recipe!
Good to know. Thanks for sharing your happy moments with us :)
my native is salem, but i'm living outside from salem district here no one don't know “Thengai suduthal/thengai sudum pandigai”. i missed this festival
Even I miss it :(
Interesting receipe.
Thank you
Lovely. Thanks for this.. was searching the recipe🙏
You are welcome. Happy Aadi pandigai😊
No it's not unique to Salem. Here in Karur we used to celebrate Aadipirappu by Thengai suduthal
Hi, Good to know that its celebrated in Karur as well. I have heard that this celebration is popular in and around Salem only :)
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