Yugadi Bevu-Bella/Pachadi Drink Recipe

Madhumati Tyagi

Yugadi Bevu-Bella/Pachadi drink recipe is a mixture of various ingredients that have 6 different tastes that signify that life is a mixture of happiness, sadness, anger, disgust, fear, and surprise.

Ingredients:

• 2 1/2 cup water
• 2 tbsp. green unripe Mango peeled and chopped pieces
• 3 springs of Neem few with flowers or 1 tbsp. flowers
• 1 pinch salt or as needed
• 3 tbsp. Jaggery or as needed
• 1 pinch pepper powder
• Small lemon size Tamarind or 1 tsp. Tamarind pulp
• One Banana ripe chunks
• 1 tbsp. Putnalu/ roasted Chena dal powder
• Few Cashew and Almond powder (1 tbsp.)
• Raisins chopped (1 tbsp.)

Method:

• Wash Tamarind and soak it in ½ cup water till it softens
• While Tamarind soaks, pluck Flowers from neem springs or use dry flowers if you do not get the fresh flowers.
• Add grated Jaggery to another one-cup water, stir until it melts off.
• Filter it through a coffee strainer to another bowl. Filter the tamarind pulp as well to the same bowl.
• Next, add rest of the ingredients and mix well.
• Do not taste it before offering it as Naivedyam.

Share this delicious Yugadi Bevu-Bella/Pachadi drink with your family members and friends.

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