Showing posts with label Indian lunch menu ideas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Indian lunch menu ideas. Show all posts

Sunday, April 28, 2019

Drumstick Sambar, Vendakkai thoran, Lunch menu combo 3

In the series of Lunch menu ideas, this week lunch is a simple South Indian lunch. As most of the week days we make one pot meal and some variety rice, generally weekend is the only time we make a proper meal with Sambar, rasam, aviyal... So if you are not a South Indian, do you think how we are not bored with Sambar every week. The change of veggies in the sambar makes the taste totally different. And also we make Plain sambar and Archachuvitta sambar. So what all veggies which are commonly used for making South Indian Sambar? We make Sambar using Drumstick, Ladies finger, capsicum, Small onion, Keerai thandu, Karuvadam, Pumpkin and mix of brinjal, drumstick also.
Drumstick samabr

This week's lunch menu has


Saturday, April 20, 2019

Baby potato Biryani, Beetroot vadai, Lunch menu combo 2

Chettinad urulai Biryani | Baby potato biryani, is the ever popular biryani recipe from Jeyashri's Kitchen. Though i replace the small potatoes with vegetables and make Chettiand Vegetable biryani, i still love it with potatoes a lot. To pair this up with an interesting combo, i made Beetroot vadai apart from the Onion raita. Any one pot rice is most welcomed in our family.
And being a pakka South Indian, hailing from a Tamil Brahmin family, our meal will not complete without a Thayir sadam| curd rice, fondly called as Thachi mammu. Even if i cook a North Indian dish, i will make a curd rice for any parties i host at home.

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This Indian Lunch menu combo  has

  1. Small potato biryani
  2. Beetroot vadai
  3. Onion raita
  4. Curd rice
  5. Vendhaya keerai thokku
  6. Mango milkshake. 
Since i had a bunch of beautiful Organic mangoes, i made a small quantity of Thick  mango milkshake, which we had as a dessert. 
Stay tuned for Lunch | Brunch menu combos from Jeyashri's kitchen, every Saturday. 

Sunday, April 14, 2019

Poosanikai Puli kootu, Beans curry- Lunch menu combo 1

Indian Lunch menu ideas, the series i wanted to start for a long time but somehow i kept on postponing it. I used to share my lunch platter in Jeyashri's kitchen Instagram under the hashtag #jeyashriskitchenlunch and many of them used to ask me to post it regularly. As i couldn't commit on that on a daily basis, i thought i will share a platter once a week. It doesn't mean that i don't cook on a regular basis, i cook 3 meals on a daily basis. But sometimes it will be a salad and a soup on my lunch plate, sometimes it may be a simple left over ones after packing the lunch box for kids and husband. As weekend i generally tend to cook a little elaborate lunch. Also by doing this Lunch menu series, it will bring out the unnoticed, yummy, old recipes from Jeyashri's kitchen. I have noted down some family's favorite combo and also the commonly loved combo recipes for this series. Stay tuned to Jeyashri's Kitchen for this interesting series every Saturday for Lunch menu ideas or Brunch menu ideas. The menu won't be too elaborate always as we did for the Cooking for guest series. Sometimes i will post some simple combos and sometimes i will share an elaborate one. Looking forward to your support in this Indian lunch menu ideas series. 
  To start with, we have a no onion no garlic, South Indian lunch menu for Tamil New year on today.
poosanikai puli kootu
On this platter we have Poosanaikai puli kootu, the family's popular kootu | pitlai recipe. This is a traditional recipe i learnt from my mother in law, made in our house on festival days. We have beans curry, Vendakkai thayir pachadi, neem flower rasam, maanga pachadi and plain rice. 
Please click the link for the recipe from the title given below.
If you want to add Vadai and payasam please click on the links given below.