Gopalkala Janmashtami Festival Recipe
Gopalkala Janmashtami festival recipe. Gopalkala, Lord Krishna’s favorite is a beaten rice/ poha recipe. Gopalkala is a quick/ easy recipe and you can make it anytime within 5 minutes if you have the main ingredients.Gopal kala is a special festival version of ‘dahi pohe’. ‘Kala’ means the mixture in Marathi. Krishna loved the dairy products, milk, ghee, butter, curd – yogurt etc. Krishna used to go with the cowherds to graze cows. During mealtime, he used to mix everybody’s lunch together along with some curd and distribute the same to all the cowherds with him. That is ‘gopalkala’.
Equipment
- 1 Mixing Bowl
Ingredients
How to make gopalkala – Janmashtami recipe
List of ingredients and the quantity
- Thick poha beaten/pressed rice – 1 cup
- Milk – ½ cup or more as needed
- Fresh Curd – yogurt – ½ cup
- Chopped cucumber – 1 tbsp
- Green chili – 1 chopped fine
- Salt – ¼ tsp or according to taste
- Sugar – ¼ tsp or according to taste
Tempering ingredients
- Ghee or vegetable oil 1 tsp
- Cumin seeds – ¼ tsp
- Curry leaves – 4-5
- Popped millet jowar lahiya – ½ cup
- Puffed rice murmura -1/2 cup
Optional chopped mixed fruit –
- apple, Banana, guava – ½ cup or more
- Soaked Chana dal / Bengal gram – 1 tbsp
- Butter – 1 tsp
- Pomegranate seeds – 1 tbsp or more
Instructions
Make tempering
- Heat ghee in a small pan. Add cumin seeds. When they stop spluttering, add curry leaves.
- Take off the stove and let cool a little till you mix the other ingredietns with poha.
Making gopalkala
- Wash thick poha using water in a bowl. Remove all water. Keep aside for 5 minutes.
- Add milk and other ingredients to poha and mix well.
- Add the cooled tempering. Mix well and gopalkala is ready to offer to Govinda – Krishna.
- The optional ingredients given are added to gopalkala. If you have them, add to the dish.
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Notes
Tips while making and serving gopalkala
- Gopalkala tends to thicken after sometime. In that case, you may need to add some milk at the time of serving.
- Adding fruits solves that problem to some extent as the chopped fruits mixed with salt and sugar releases some moisture in poha.
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