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Wives of officers of Tamil Nadu House, New Delhi preparing the earthen pots to cook the delicious Pongal dish. Pongal is a popular rice dish in all South Indian states, and Tamil-speaking areas of Sri Lanka. Pongal is common in Tamil cuisine. In Dravidian languages the root word pong or pongu means to " boil over" or "spill over". There are two varieties of pongal, namely, sakarai pongal(Tamizh) or chakkera pongali (Telugu) which is a sweet and the other variety isven pongal (Tamizh) or nethi Pongali (Telugu) which is made from scarified butter. The rice boiled with milk and jaggery during the Pongal festival is also called pongal - this is sweet pongal made specially in earthenware pots with a wood fire. Pongal is a harvest festival celebrated by Tamil people at the end of the harvest sea
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