Navarathri is upon us. "Nava" in Sanskrit means Nine and Rathri means night which obviously denotes the fact that this festival is celebrated for 9 whole days. The highlight of this festival is the arrangement of different idols on step arrangement called as "Golu" ( see how it looks here ). Another highlight is the different varieties of Sundal that is made during these days. One different sundal for 9 different days. Sundal is nothing but a simple South Indian salad made with different legumes like White chickpeas, black chickpeas ( generally termed as Kadalai Sundal ), butter beans (termed as "Mochakottai sundal" ), dried peas (termed as Pattani sundal ) and many more.

All the ones that I have mentioned follows the same procedure as this, hence all you have to do is to change the legume keeping the process and the rest of the ingredients same. You have 4 different Sundal recipes already. We will discuss for the remaining 5 days later :) Another place where these Sundals play a very important role than during this festival is on the South Indian beaches. Just take a gander on the coastline of the Madras city and you will see vendors everywhere like ants on the sands, selling these sundals calling out along with the legume it is made of. The smells, the aroma, watching the waves while eating these sundals wrapped in newspaper cones are some unforgettable memories! And before I get lost in reminiscing those, lets go into this simple recipe shall we?