Yellu Bella
Many of us know what Makara Sankranti is. What it is called in different regions and how it is celebrated.
My memories of Sankranti starts with Yellu-Bella, Sakkare attchu(sugar figurines) and “Yellu Birodu”. Wearing the traditional dress/sometimes frocks, I was my Mom’s companion on this festival. She used to load the yellu-Bella & sakkare attchu packets, bananas, sugarcane pieces, Beetle leaves, flowers and the Kumkum in the peacock shaped box, with the head & neck being the cap for that box.
We would visit all the close relatives and friends that afternoon and she would arrange all these in a silver plate and offer to each guest and I would be the one to start the process by offering kumkum.
This year also I made the yellu-bella and the taste is very nostalgic. It’s a simple recipe.
Recipe
Ingredients:
Groundnuts/peanuts
Kobbari/Dry Coconut
Bella/Jaggery/
Huri Kadle/Fried grams
Yellu/sesame seeds
Directions:
Fry the Groundnuts on low flame but do not burn it. Remove the outer cover and split the nuts. Check the image below
Cut the Kobbari and Bella into small pieces.
Mix all the ingredients and your Sankranti starts.
Happy Sankranti
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