Bevu bella recipe | How to make bevu bella for yugadi festival | Karnataka style ugadi recipes
By Latha on April 13th, 2021
Bevu bella recipe explained here using a video. Bevu bella is very important while celebrating the ugadi festival. This Karnataka style bevu bella recipe is a tasty and easy way to prepare bevu bella and celebrate yugadi festival.
This bevu bella is prepared using roasted gram (putani or hurigadale), jaggery, badam, cashews, cardamom, neem flower and neem leaves. You can also try ugadi pachadi or yugadi pachadi for the festival. In ugadi pachadi every ingredient has its own significance. Tamarind signifies unpleasantness, jaggery signifies happiness, raw mango signifies surprise, pepper signifies fear, neem signifies sadness and salt signifies fear.
I am filing this recipe under ugadi or yugadi recipes. Try this pachadi or bevu bella for the yugadi festival and enjoy.
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I have made a video on this bevu bella recipe with Kannada narration, which I have embedded it below. Kindly have a look.
Preparation time: 5 min
Cooking time: 0 min
Serves: 10
Ingredients for bevu bella: (measuring cup used = 240ml)
- 1/4 cup roasted gram or putani or hurigadale
- 2 - 4 tbsp jaggery
- 4 badam or almonds
- 2 - 4 cashews
- 1 tbsp neem flower
- 3 - 4 tender neem leaves (optional)
- One cardamom
Instructions for making bevu bella:
- Powder the roasted gram using a mixer grinder.
- Add in badam and cashews.
- Add in jaggery as per your taste.
- Add in neem flower and neem leaves. Please note, neem leaves are optional.
- Add in cardamom. Grind everything together again.
- If needed adjust the jaggery.
- Bevu bella ready to serve. Enjoy the festival.
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