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Pongal 2026 food guide: Traditional dishes that define harvest festival

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New Delhi: As the January settles into the gentle warmth and the harvest season begins to paint the Southern skies golden, it marks the arrival of Pongal in various regions, which means a renewed sense of gratitude, abundance and cultural nostalgia along with feasting, Across Tamil Nadu and other parts of South India, homes awaken with crips scent of buring incence, turmeric-tied pots and kolams drawns at dawn, and slow simmering of rice and mmilk in clay pots as a cultural rituals.

Along with these rituals, a feast with the community is also one of the important steps. Here is our curated guide of the foods and recipes you need to prepare this Pongal for the ultimate celebrations and attract purity, prosperity and love with each bite.

No Pongal celebration is complete without Sakkarai Pongal, a decadent combination of freshly harvested rice, moong........

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