MILAGU VADAI / PEPPER CORN VADAI

  This milagu vadai is a main offering for Lord Anjaneya. This is the one we get as prasadam in Anjaneyar temples. It has a very unique and divine taste. I made this milagu vadai as an offering to Lord Anjaneya on this auspicious Hanumanth Jayanthi day. Let’s seek Lord Anjaneya’s blessings by preaparing this milagu vadai at home and offering it to the Lord.

HISTORY BEHIND CELEBRATION OF HANUMATH JAYANTHI

Once, a great saint named Angira went to visit the heaven king, Indra and welcomed there through the dance presented by a damsel named, Punjiksthala. However, saint was not used of that type dance and started meditating on his God. After the end of dance, he was asked by the Indra about the performance of dance. He was silent and said that I was in deep meditation to my Almighty because I have no interest in such dance. It was very ashamed to the Indra and damsel; she started disappointing the saint and then cursed by the Angira that “Behold! You shall degrade to earth from Swarg. You will be born as a female monkey in the mountain forests”.

She then felt sorry and regretted to the saint then a merciful saint supported her through blessings like, “A great devotee of Paramatma will be born to you. He will forever serve Paramatma”. She became the daughter of Kunjar (king of the monkeys on earth) and got married to the Kapiraj Kesari of the Mount Sumeru. She gave birth to the Hanuman with the help of five divine factors such as curse and blessings of the saint Angira, her prayers, blessings of Lord Shiva, blessings of Vayu deva and Putreshti Yagna’s fruit. It is considered that Lord Shiva had to rebirth as a human being on the earth in his 11^th Rudra avatar in the form of Hanuman as He could not serve to the Lord Rama by being in His real form.

The whole Vanara community including all the human fraternity was happy and celebrated his birthday with great enthusiasm and joy by dancing, singing and lots of activities. From then, it was started celebrating as a Hanuman Jayanti by his devotees to get strength and wisdom like him.

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Hanuman Mantra:

Manojavam Maruttulyavegm

Jitendrium Buddhimatam Varishtham

Vatatmajam Vanarayuthmukhyam

Shri Ramdutam Sharanam Prapdye.

Let's check out the recipe.

INGREDIENTS

Urad dhal                     - 1 cup

Rice flour                      - 1 tsp

Pepper corns               - ¾ tsp ( coarsely powdered)

Salt                              - to taste

Hot oil                          - 2 tbsps

Oil                                - for deep frying

METHOD

Wash the uradh dhal and soak for thirty minutes

Drain the water from dhal completely and keep it in the strainer for sometime till all the wateris drained.

Grind the drained dhal to a coarse paste adding minimum water.

 Addcoarsely crushed  pepper corns salt, rice flour and two tbsps of hot oil.

Make small balls and pat on a wet  cloth or on a polythene sheet to make thin vadai.

Make a small hole in the centre and deep fry  in hot oil.

Make all the balls in the same manner and quickly deep fry till half done.

When  all the vadais are half deep fried, once again put in hot and oil and deep fry till crispy.

VARIATIONS

A teaspoon of raw rice can also be soaked with dhal instead of adding rice flour.

Add little rawa instead of rice flour after grinding dhal to get crispy vadai.

Whole black gram with skin can also be used in the above recipe.

Cumin seed can also be added.

Grind pepper corns along with dhal.

HANUMAN CHALISA

Mahavir vikram Bajrangi, kumati nivar sumati ke sangi

Kanchan baran viraj suvesha, kanan kundal kunchit kesa

Hath vajra aur dhvaja biraje, kandhe munj janeu saje

Shankar suvan Kesrinandan, tej pratap maha jagvandan

Vidyavan guni ati chatur, Ram kaj karibe ko atur

Prabhu charitra sunibe ko rasiya, Ram Lakhan Sita man basiya

Sukshma rup dhari siyahi dikhava, vikat rup dhari Lanka jarava

Bhim rup dhari asur sanhare, Ramchandra ke kaj sanvare

Laye sanjivan Lakhan jiyaye, Shri Raghubir harashi ur laye

Raghupati kinhi bahut barai, tum mam priya Bharathi sam bhai

Sahas badan tumharo yash gave, asi kahi Shripati kanth lagave

Sanakadik Brahmadi Munisha, Narad Sarad sahit ahisha

Yam Kuber Digpal jahan te, Kavi kovid kahi sake kahan te

Tum upkar Sugrivahin kinha, Ram milai Rajpad dinha

Tumharo mantra Vibhishan mana, Lankeshvar bhaye sabh jag jana

Jug sahasra yojan par bhanu, lilyo tahi madhur phal janu

Prabhu mudrika meli mukh mahi, jaladhi langhi gaye achraj nahin

Durgam kaj jagat ke jete, sugam anugraha tumhare tete

Ram duare tum rakhvare, hot na agya binu paisare

Sab sukh lahai tumhari sarna, tum rakshak kahu ko darna

Aapan tej samharo apai, tino lok hank te kanpe

Bhut pisach nikat nahin ave, Mahabir jab nam sunave

Nase rog hare sab pira, japat nirantar Hanumat bira

Sankat te Hanuman chhudave, man kram bachan dhyan jo lave

Sab par Ram tapasvi raja, tinke kaj sakal tum saja

Aur manorath jo koi lave, soi amit jivan phal pave

Charo jug partap tumhara, hai parsidh jagat ujiyara

Sadhu sant ke tum rakhvare, asur nikandan Ram dulare

Asht siddhi navanidhi ke data, us var din janki mata

Ram rasayan tumhare pasa, sada raho Raghupati ke dasa

Tumhare bhajan Ram ko bhave, janam janam ke dukh bisarave

Antakal Raghuvar pur jai, jahan janma Hari bhakta kahai

Aur devta chit na dharai, Hanumat sei sarva sukh karai

Sankat kate mite sab pira, jo sumre Hanumat balbira

Jai Jai Jai Hanuman gusain, kripa karahu gurudev ke nai

Jo shat bar path kar soi, chhotahin bandi maha sukh hoi

Jo yah padhe Hanuman chalisa, hoi siddhi sakhi gaurisa

Tulsidas sada Hari chera, kije nath hriday mahan dera.

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