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Baisakhi Festival

Baisakhi festival that is celebrated by farmers, as it marks the time for harvesting the Rabi crops. The festival of Baisakhi is mainly celebrated in Punjab and Haryana and is considered to be one of the major festivals of Sikhs. Every year it is celebrated on thirteenth April and once in thirty-six years on fourteenth April. It is said that the festival of Baisakhi has a lot of importance for Sikhs, as the tenth Sikh guru, Guru Gobind Singh ji laid the foundation of Panth Khalsa on the day of Baisakhi in 1699. This festival of Baisakhi 2010 is a new beginning for the farmers, as it is the time to harvest the crops and they thank God for the rich yield of crops and pray for abundant growth ahead . To feel and enjoy the Baisakhi celebrations one must visit Punjab and Haryana where people celebrate this festival with full zeal by wearing new clothes on this festival and performing bhangra and gidda, the folk dance of Punjab.

Baisakhi Recipes

Sarson Ka Sag
Ingredients
1 kg of chopped Sarson
1/4 kg of chopped Spinach
4 cloves of crushed garlic
2 cm piece of crushed ginger
2 Green Chilies (cut into small pieces)
2 Red Chilies
2 tbsp. of Gram Flour
1 tbsp. of Butter
Ghee
Salt according to your taste Method
Start boiling the greens vegetable till it becomes soft and remove excess of water.
Crush the leafy vegetables and store them.
Take 4-tbsp of ghee and add ginger, garlic, green chilies and red chilies.
As the above mixture turns brown in color add the crushed saag and salt according to your taste.
Add little water to the gram flour and add it to the saag.
Cook it for at least 30 minutes.
Serve it hot, topped with a spoon of butter.
Makki ki Roti
Ingredients 2 cups of Corn Flour or Makki ka atta
Grated radish
Warm water
Salt according to your taste
Method Add warm water to makki ka atta and knead it before cooking the chapattis.
Add some grated radish and salt while kneading to add taste.
Put a piece of polythene paper on the kitchen floor.
Start making small balls of kneaded dough and put them on the above paper.
Cover the ball with another piece of polythene and press it with your palm to get a size of chapatti. The size of this chapatti is slightly bigger than a normal chapatti.
Now put the chapatti on a hot tava.
Roast the chapatti from both the sides.
Serve hot chapattis with sarson ka saag and butter.

Wheat Flour Laddu
Ingredients

1cup of Wheat flour
½ cup of Besan
½ cup of Sugar
½ cup of powdered sugar
½ tsp of Melted ghee
Chopped cashew nuts
Cardamom powder
½ cup of melted ghee
Method Start heating the pan and add the melted ghee.
Cook besan and wheat flour together but do not allow the color of the flour to change.
After cooking the above mixture remove it from fire and let it cool.
Now add cardamom powder and powdered sugar and mix it.
Take a pan and melt ½ cup of sugar in it and now add ¼ cup of ghee in it.
Empty the content immediately in a bowl.
The mixture will become hard on cooling.
Mince it and mix it with the prepared flour mixture.
Fry some cashew nuts and blend it with ¼ cup of ghee.
Add it to the flour mixture and mix it.
Make small balls that will form laddus before it cools.
So try to follow the above recipes and cook some delicious food this Baisakhi