Ritika
Seema Kumari
New Delhi: The spring season begins with ‘Basant Panchami’. On this day, Mother Saraswati, the goddess of knowledge and wisdom, is worshiped all over the country. Goddess Saraswati is called the goddess of education, knowledge, music and art. With his blessings, a person gets knowledge and wisdom. Every year the festival of ‘Basant Panchami’ is celebrated on the fifth day of Shukla Paksha of Magh month. The spring season also starts from this day. The festival of ‘Vasant Panchami’ is being celebrated on January 26 this year.
In North India, the day of ‘Basant Panchami’ is considered very special for the students. On this day, children worship Goddess Saraswati by wearing yellow colored clothes after bathing and enjoy flying kites. It is believed that the festival of ‘Basant Panchami’ is celebrated in the honor of Kamdev, his wife Rati and their friend Basant. This festival is also associated with Shringar ceremony.
There is also a tradition of making special yellow clothes and yellow food items on this day. Traditional food dishes are also made in homes on the occasion of Vasant Panchami. In such a situation, let us know about some such traditional food dishes-
Besan Laddu
Homemade besan laddoos are everyone’s favorite. You can roll by adding both cashews and almonds to the soft gram flour.
juice cream
You can eat sweet raspberry juice cream with great gusto. Very tasty Rasmalai can be made by mixing Chhaina and Rabdi. You can also make ras malai in 15 minutes by using readymade rasgulla and condensed milk.
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salty or sweet porridge
Khichdi in yellow dish is a very easy and tasty option. You can also make plain butter khichdi with vegetable khichdi. You also like sweet khichdi by adding sugar or jaggery.
sweet or yellow rice
It is best to make sweet rice for Prasad in Basant Panchami Puja. By adding sugar, saffron, cloves, cardamom, cinnamon and dry fruits to this rice, a good yellow bhog can be made.
Curry Pakora
You can cook Kadhi Pakoda for lunch or dinner on Basant Panchami. Fry some pakodas in simple kadhi and enjoy. You can also eat it with rice or roti.
