Recipe: Seven vegetables curry (Ezhukari Kootu) for Sankranti

Come January and it marks the advent of one of the most auspicious days of the Hindu calendar,  “Makara Sankranti”.  One of the very few Hindu festivals that is celebrated on a fixed date, Sankranti falls each year on either the 14^th or 15^th of January.  While the term ‘Sankranti’ itself denotes the movement of the sun from one Raashi (a Zodiac constellation) to another, Makara Sankranti is considered particularly significant as it marks the transmigration of the sun to the Makara constellation (which is the Capricorn zodiac).

Dedicated to the sun God, Sankranti is primarily a harvest festival and ...