Sipping my 2nd cup of tea, I again googled while enjoying the heavily rain outside from my balcony.
Yeah!!! I jumped with glee… is it “Adra Nakshatra”… it reminds me of the time when my parents use to celebrate. Adra comes and goes but memory remains.
In Bihar during the Adra; there is tradition to eat “Kheer (Rice Pudding)”, “Dal-Poori (Stuffed Lentil Bread)” and “Mango” along with some side dish as “Aaloo Parwal ki Sabji”, Mango Pickle, Salad etc.
Do you know what is Adra? It is the name of Nakshatra in Hindu astrology; the entry of sun in Adra Nakshatra is considered auspices. In this year Nakshatra begins on June 22nd and ends on 5th of July.
Customarily in Bihari offers the “Adra Nakshatra Ki Thali (Bihari Thali)” to God( Indra): so that god bless us with good rain. I am grown up eating this traditional Thali, which consists of … I have already link all the recipe… just click the highlighted…
Legend is, who celebrates ADRA with Kheer, Dal-Poori and Mango always get protected from snakes. Day before yesterday we celebrated the festival with great zeal… when are you going to celebrate the festival, enjoy the special flavour of Monsoon recipe from Bihar…
Happy ADRA… Happy MONSOON…
Adra Nakshatra Ki Thali (Bihari Thali) by Nag Ratna Sahu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.