Ugadi New Year festival has come. What do you make at home?

Hi Buchi, wish you and all our friends here from your country a happy and prosperous Ugadi Festival. Though I don't the kind of foods you mentioned above here I still believe they are yummy and attractive in their looks and savors respectively. And I love all kind of dishes and desserts prepared from coconut. Coconut milk really gives its unique fragrance and makes food tasting yummy Our chinese new year or the spring festival just over about a month back. We do prepare many delicious cookies a week or a couple of weeks before the festival. There are lots of them which believe would bring good fortune to us if they are served in the beginning of the year. Fish is one of the essential dish served on the new year eve dinner. Happy and prosperous Ugadi Festival

Our New Year falls on April 14 that is Varuda Pirappu and for that we prepare a semi liquid as mentioned by you. We do not prepare Obbattu on that day but for Sankranthi, that is on the festival of harvest day only we prepare Poli

hi,Buchi,wish you the same.Today,is Ugadi and we prepared the ugadi pachadi as usual.Other than that she prepared Pulihora,Payasam,Garelu.After wearing new clothes,we sat at one place for reading Panchangam...thats what happend happily today.All the best and have a nice time.

Hi Buchi-Bulla, The same to you too. Here also we have it today called Yugadi or more commonly by Maharashtrians as Gudi Padva which is an important date for a New Year. Though my family roots are basically from Karnataka/Kerala border and now last 2 generations settled in Mumbai we celebrate by both the methods- and in both preparing a good meal and lots of sweets are equally of importance; here the Maharashtrians normally prepare Sweet -rice, and other liquid & semi-liquid sweets like Shrikhand or other milk based sweets and they are known by different names- basically all the sweets are the same I think.

Hi Buchi dear, this day i was here in Hyderabad, the nighbors here gave us many kinds of south indian dishes and sweets, we ate them , taste was nice, but dear chilli was too much and i can't take too sour things Our new year is Diwali, my wife makes kheer, ras malai, vada, puree and veg curries, we distribute to neighbors Happy posting, cheers Prof

Ugadi is the NEW YEAR day for Telugu people. This is really a wonderful festival.Every individual celebrates this festival in their own style.Some wear new clothes ,purchase items of their choice so as to remember for ever that they have purchased this item on Ugadi day. Today is the day when we prepare Polaelu (Sweet chapati with jaggary,cashew nuts,coconut powder etc)and the ever loving Pacchadi ( a combination of Jaggery,tamarind liquid,coconut grated pieces,neem flowers,mango pieces grepped) A wonderful and soothing drink. It all seems wonderful for foreigners but if they taste once hope,they will frequently visit India to enjoy these tasteful items.

Hi, even i like ugadi festival very much , as you know Karnataka , andhrapradesh and Maharashtra celebrate this festival. In kannada - Yugadi In Telugu - ugadi In Maharstra - bedi bua Normally in andhrapradesh ugadi pacchadi and Holiga is a famous sweet for this festival and wearing new dress is special.what about you do you wear new dress or old dress?

Hi Kar29 Rocks, as you said is right ugadi is for telugu and kannda people. ugadi means: new year arrival and old year to say good bye.That day we eat ugadi pacchadi.

hi, how are you, well, we celebrate ugadi, very grandly.. because, this is the the starting point of our life..now it turns our future differently.. in our house we celebrate festivals in combine.. our family is combined family we share our festivals to do like.. we make parties on that days..we play some games.. we do, sweets, hots..like pulihora.. payasam, bobbattu...etc..mainly..ugadi pacchadi..i think everybody likes that pacchadi. thankyou for your topic, have a nice day.. advanced happy ugadi to you and for your entire family.

Well, I am a Tamilian! So we do not celebrate UGADHI in a grand manner! Ugadi is meant for the Telugus! Also, our Telugu neighbors are having a good time today! They have sent us sweets and savories and have invited us for the pooja and rituals and for the Lunch of course! Also, we will be celebrating our New Year on 14th April - Chaitra month 1st day!