I offer this to the Lotus Feet of The Supreme Mother Goddess RajaRajeshwari.
Many tamilians also do MaaVillakku puja on one of the Aadi Velli Kizhamai. For the benefit of the families who have this practice, I have given the recipe for a small MaaVillakku.
We usually light the Maa Villakku on a Purattasi Sani Kizhamai.
Ingredients
- Rice – 2 cups
- Jaggery – 1 cup
- Cardamom – 2 nos
- Honey – 2 table spoons
- Grated coconut – 2 table spoons
- Ghee – 2 table spoons
- Wick – 4 inch length.
Method
- Wash and soak the rice for 10 minutes.
- Drain well and spread on a white cloth.
- Grind the rice in a heavy duty mixer a little at a time and seive.
- When all the rice is ground, mix with powdered jaggery’ honey, grated coconut and cardamom.
- On a plate shape this dough in to the shape of a lamp or villakku. Pour ghee and place a wick.
- Light the wick and offer your prayers.
Hope all viewers who visit my site for this specific purpose find it useful. Please do let me know your views.
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Excellent its great and useful.As many think doing this tradition is very long way.as they do their cooking they can do this.your site is very very useful.
bye latha vijaya viswanathan.
Thanks Vijaya! So nice to get a compliment from my best friend!
latha.
Hi Latha,
Excellent. But is it not that grated coconut is added after the prayers are over ? I meant after offering ‘Karpooram’ and ‘malai ethufying’ the lamps ? Just wanted to know, since i follow this practice of mixing the maavillaku maavu after this procedure. I can correct it if i were wrong.
Thanks anyway for these wonderful posts Latha. Kudoos to you..
Hi Shoba,
Thanks for your comments. As far as I am concerned anything we consume should be offered to God. Not because God will eat, But Whatever is offered to God becomes purified. I have read in depth about our practices. More on that in a separate post.
The post is divine. Very handy recipe for everyone who follow the traditions. I have planned to do it this week. Let me see. Viji
Thanks viji!
I am happy that so many people liked the post.
latha.
I am the most un-religious person you can find but I do enjoy cooking for festivals! This sounds very authentic and unique.Thanks for posting.I do enjoy coming here!:)
Thanks asha,
I appreciate that you care to comment though you are not religious.
latha.
Divine and authentic. Thanks for the post.
Thanks Sri,
I am happy that so many of you liked it.
latha.
thank you so much for the lovely maa vizakku. you are helping so many ppl around the world who are away from their home.
Thanks sharmi,
I started the blog for my daughter and her friends around the world, all newly married. otherwise me and computer were enemies.
latha.
What a special custom! In Catholic churches, we light candles for prayers in front of icons of saints or deities. Saints have specialties, like lost objects, eyesight, or travelers. In many cultures that burn their dead, like Cambodia, the soul rises to heaven in the smoke. When I sit in church, I visualize prayers rising in the smoke of candles. Thank you so much for this posting.
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sharmi, im glad too that my amma and manni’s have started blogging. amma used to think the computer has gone wonked if we changed the desktop wallpaper!!! thankfully those days are now ancient history 😀
nice site. am adding yo to our blogroll – bee
It’s so nice to know about these traditions!
Thanks
Latha nice informative post 🙂 The rava dosa also looks nice 🙂
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hi latha,
being in canada i was wondering how to make maa villakku. thanks a lot for your blog. it was highly helpful.
regards,
kadhambari
Dear Latha,
Please advise what should we do with the MaaVillakku after the prayers.
Thanks
Suja
man !! this is awesome.. have been looking for maa vilakku ever since I moved to mumbai some 6 years ago.! great work latha.. 🙂 still remember my mom and pati ‘ethufying’ this on some obscure saturday…although my mom doesnt add honey, I will still try it these saturdays of purattasi in 2008 .. and beyond..
by the way, if I need to ‘crunch’ the recipes, by say half/quarter..lets say I need to reduce the quantities, how much should I reduce the ingredients..is it relative/proportionate??
Kalyani
I followed this receipe and did the mavilakku last saturday. It came out good and Thank you so much for the receipe
I have tried Maa Vilakku Mavu last saturday and I normally use Boora Chakkarai instead of jaggery but to get Boora Chakkarai will be a task by itself . Jaggery is easily available and I forund it to be useful/tastier.
Thanks
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hi maami
this is the best site i have visited so far.
it is like being told by my mother or paatti to me.
hi to all
we have a very peculiar custom…we belong to thirukurungudi,, instead of maa vilaku we light the palha vilaku…fruit lamp.during puratasi sani kilamai
thanks for maa-villakku.
Dear aunty,
Surprised to see your blog with tons of traditional things…thank you so much for all the clearly mentioned ratios….today we are going to celebrate puratasi masam saturday….this ma vilakku recipe is too helpful for me….thanks once again…
cheers
Amirta
May I know the practices we need to do for Purattasi Sani. Along with Maa Vilakku could you please list down the offerings we need to make.
Cheers
We do not add grated coconut to the maavu, nor the honey. We just add jaggery powder and melted ghee little to make the villaku. Offer to the vilakku coconut, vetrilai and paaku while malaierum time along with karpoora harathi. While giving it to neighbours. make a ball of maavilakku, slice the broken coconut and give. I live in southindian colony full of Tamilians, Iyengars from different places none of them add grated coconut.
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Thank you for the recipe. Can you tell me the significance/symbolism of making a villaku out of rice ?