FOOD:PONDICHERRY THALI








Today we are landing on the famous tourist spot in Tamil nadu ” Pondicherry” , which is know for the beach,Gandhi ji statue, the french architecture and some puducherry special delicacies. Pondicherry  is a city, with municipality in pondicherry district in the Indian  union territory of puducherry. The locals call it pondy and officially called as puducherry. This city has influence from the colonial powers which were annexed by french east India company.
So french influence lingers on here even after half century after their departure in architecture and culture in thic city.You can still see the police men wearing red “kepi” here ..The food is a mixture of all the south regions and of course with some french touch in them ..The most fav dishes in pondy is coconut chutney,Assad, stuffed cabbage, soya dosa, podalangkai chutney, curried vegetables and lot more .
You can also get some french baguettes right in India and don’t have to be in France for the authentic one..
For Pondy thali I gather all the possible info’s from friends and books and summed up to a single thali.
I am sharing two important festival recipes in this post and rest in the coming posts ..
As said in the sunday of the year in jan is the day of visit by the three kings to see Jesus  and it is called Eiphany  which in puducherry is celebrated as Moonu Raja Pongal  as for thanking morther earth for bring as great soul to help poor.In this day special pongal is prepared and all family members gather at a common place. Usually in other parts of tamil nadu pongal is prepared using milk but in pondy and karaikal it is prepared with coconut milk. 
A small portion of pongal is offered to god and then distributed to neighbours, friends and relatives. Pongal is placed with sugar cane, poriyals, chutney, appalam,  ghee, tambulum/ tambul, beetle leaves,Bananas, string of jasmine flower is placed on a banana leaf to offer it to god.To go with the pongal Special kozhambu called Taplam kuzhambu which is also called as 7 kari kuzhambu made with this pongal