Lunch Index

#Lunch : A typical #vegetarianTamilLunch menu will have the following items :

• Rice is the staple food of Tamil Nadu, India
• Paruppu [ salted Lentil ]
• Sambar [ Lentil with vegetables and tamarind ]
• Rasam [ Spiced lentil water with tamarind ]
• Koottu [ Lentil with vegetables and coconut masala ]
• Curry [either Stir fry or spicy dry curry ]
• Sweet Pachadi [ mango, tomato or mixed fruit ]
• Thayir Pachadi [ Salad with vegetables and curd ]
• Appalam
• Curd
• Pickle

These are the items in a normal daily lunch menu.

On special occasions, festival days and marriage feast there will be sambar, kara kuzhambu or vatha kuzhambu, more kuzhambu, rasam, one vegetable stir fry, one or two spicy curry, two types of vegetable koottu, a sweet, payasam [ dessert ], vadai, banana, along with other regular ones.

There is a specific way and order in which food has to be taken.

To begin with white rice has to be mixed with salted lentil adding ghee. It has to be relished with thayir pachadi [ curd salad ] and vegetables of sambar.

Next take some more white rice and add sambar liberally adding little ghee or gingelly oil [ till/sesame oil ]. Have along with curry and koottu. You can also enjoy with pappad and vathal.

Now comes rasam. Take hot white rice and pour rasam over it.
Mix well and enjoy with curry, koottu and pappad/vathal.

If payasam [ dessert ] is in the menu, then have at this point.

Finally mix white rice with curd or buttermilk and have with pickle.

Please find links below for posts related to the recipes of lunch. I keep adding links whenever a new post is published in this blog.


Lunch

Cooking dhal

Cooking rice

Koottu

Coconut masala

• Links to various lunch menus are tabulated here.
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Mix With Rice	Rice Varieties
Keerai Masiyal Sigappu Keerai Masiyal Sigappu Keerai Paruppu Masiyal Manathakkali Keerai Paal Saaru - Kazhani Saaru Murungai Keerai Paal Saaru - Kazhani Saaru

Sambar & Kuzhambu	Koottu & Gravy

Vegetable Stir fry	Dry/Masala Curry

Dessert	Pickle & vathal

Rasam Varieties	Salad - Pachadi

Gravy with Coconut Milk

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Legume Stir Fry - Sundal

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Recipe Index