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    Aadi perukku recipes - Lunch menu

    August 3, 2013 by Raks Anand 21 Comments / Jump to Recipe

    Aadi perukku recipes, Aadi 18 lunch menu with full video and step by step instructions to prepare a spread.

    aadi perukku recipes
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    • 🎉 About the festival
    • 🥘 Food
    • 📝 Recipe links
    • 👩‍🍳 Method
    • 🎥 Video
    • Recipe card
    • Aadi perukku recipes | Aadi 18 lunch menu

    🎉 About the festival

    Today is Aadi 18 or as we call 18-aam peyar. Both mom and MIL celebrate this day. Aadi perukku (pathinettam perukku) is a religious (Hindu) Tamil monsoon festival.

    As name indicates, in Tamil month Aadi (Tamil calender) aadi perukku falls on 18th day. In English calender usually overlaps in July or August.

    Read my dad's post about the aadi perukku festival.

    The whole Aadi month is always considered sacred, special and throughout the month, Goddess Shakti is worshipped.

    Along with others, we soak rice and then stir with jaggery and offer it to the “manjal pillayar” and tie yellow thread in neck on the day of aadi perukku.

    aadi perukku | Aadi 18
    Aadi perukku customs - Soaked raw rice + Jaggery and Yellow thread with flower

    How to celebrate Aadi perukku

    Here is how my mom, performs her pooja at the motta maadi (Terrace) in our home at Salem, assuming as the holy river bank Cauveri .

    Aadi perukku celebration
    A depict of water body recreated and worshipped

    She brings manal (river sand) and makes a square out of it and keeps manjal pillayar ( Ganesh made out of turmeric powder).

    Keep two vessels full of water with flowers in it, to depict water body.

    Offers fruits, rice soaked and mixed with jaggery, a black glass bangle coupled with pink tainted dried palm leaf strip, a new saree with blouse bit, some jewels, mirror, flowers, etc... along with the holy yellow thread above.

    Water bodies like river, lake, well, tanks and other sources are worshipped. Amman temples celebrate the month of aadi conduct special poojas and organize festivals.

    When is Aadi perukku 2022 date?

    Aadi perukku 2022 falls on 3rd August, Wednesday.

    🥘 Food

    Mom makes variety rice for this always as today I have made, while MIL makes full meals with sambar, rasam, poriyal, kootu, vadai, payasam and appalam (probably her family preference). But widely kalanda sadam is the specialty of the day.

    I wanted to make mom’s way this time. No need to panic by seeing so many dishes in the picture, its actually 5 items + medhu vadai. That’s it. Really! It's easier than making the full south Indian spread.

    I want to share this time how I prepared this menu (for 3) also, to prove that this is easy! Prepare pulikaichal the before day, to make it easy.

    📝 Recipe links

    So here is what I made :

    1. Sakkarai pongal recipe

    Sakkarai pongal or any sweet can be prepared. A payasam with Jaggery, coconut milk based preferably. In the video, I have prepared kalkandu pongal. Here's the recipe for sweet pongal.

    Sakkarai pongal recipe

    5 from 11 votes
    Sakkarai pongal recipe, a temple style flavourful sweet pongal with jaggery, edible camphor, cardamom, cloves and the essential ghee and cashew nuts.
    40 mins
    sakkarai pongal recipe

    2. Medhu vadai recipe

    Can any festival menu pass without vadai in the menu? We mostly make medhu vadai/ ulundhu vadai. But paruppu vadai (masal vadai) can also be made. Check out the recipe for medhu vadai below.

    Medhu vadai

    4.94 from 31 votes
     Medhu vadai recipe – Ulunthu vadai – ulundu vadai- medu vada – with VIDEO and step by step pictures, tips and tricks to make perfect shape.
    15 mins
    medhu vadai

    3. Coconut rice recipe

    Coconut rice is easy and flavor packed kalanda sadam. Can be prepared in a jiffy if you are having grated ones in hand.

    Thengai sadam recipe | Coconut rice

    5 from 4 votes
    Thengai sadam, coconut rice is a simple south Indian variety rice with a burst of flavors from fresh coconut and coconut oil.  Learn how to make thengai sadam with goodness of urad dal.
    40 mins
    Coconut-rice-thengai-sadam

    4. Puliyodharai recipe

    Puli sadam or puliyodharai is a special kalanda sadam and best part in this lunch menu. To make it easy, prepare pulikaichal the previous day and you can just mix it on the day. Alternately, you can prepare lemon sadam in place of it (Another tangy variety)

    Kovil puliyodharai Recipe

    5 from 11 votes
    Kovil puliyodharai, temple style tamarind rice recipe with full video and stepwise pictures. The spice powder added directly to the rice along with pulikachal makes it special.
    40 mins
    kovil-puliyodharai-recipe

    5. Sesame rice recipe

    Ellu sadam is a flavorful and healthy rice with roasted sesame seeds powdered and mixed. Check out the recipe here.

    ellu sadam

    5 from 3 votes
    Learn how to make south Indian ellu sadam, sesame rice. Easy and flavorful, can make quickly and healthy too. With step by step picture.
    15 mins
    ellu-sadam-recipe

    6. Thayir sadam recipe

    The perfect way to end the meal is curd rice. Creamy, cooling dish with homemade yogurt with tempering makes it flavor packed soulful dish.

    Curd rice / Thayir sadam recipe

    5 from 7 votes
    Curd rice recipe - Learn how to make perfect creamy south Indian curd rice with step by step pictures and tips for delicious results!
    20 mins
    curd-rice-recipe

    👩‍🍳 Method

    Serves: 3

    1. Morning, on wake up, soak urad dal/ ulundhu for vadai and thengai sadam.
    2. In a small cooker, (directly) cook 1 cup raw rice with 3 cups water for 4 whistles. This is for Curd rice and sweet-pongal.
    3. In another stove, pressure cook raw rice 1 & ½ cups with 2 cups water for 3 whistles (in medium flame after 1st whistle) for the other variety rice. If you have separate containers, keep little moong dal for sakkarai-pongal. Otherwise, do it separately.
    4. Grate coconut meanwhile.
    5. Once the rice for yogurt rice and pongal, take half for yogurt rice in a vessel and leave the rest of the rice in the cooker itself.
    6. Mash both and for curd rice add 120 ml hot water and salt.
    7. Make jaggery syrup and prepare pongal.
    8. If the rice for the other variety rice is done meanwhile, divide into 3 in three vessels and add 2 teaspoon of sesame oil in each, mix and let it cool down.
    9. Now its time to give some work to the kadai. Heat it up and roast for ellu-sadam, thengai-sadam. Keep aside.
    10. Now start tempering everything – first pongal, then curd rice, thengai-sadam, ellu-sadam.
    11. Grind for ellu-sadam. That’s it, mix all the variety rice.
    12. Lastly grind for vadai and heat oil in kadai for deep frying side by side.
    13. Make vadai and fry appalam and some vadams. Aplam and vadams are not offered to saamis, just for the aasamis.

    🎥 Video

    I have video updated for this menu, with lemon sadam and kalkandu-pongal in place of puliyodharai and sakkarai-pongal respectively 🙂

    This will take hardly 1 hour and less work as no cutting works involved. If you want you can make avial – if you are worried about vegetables.

    aadi perukku recipe, aadi 18 lunch menu
    Pathinettam perukku recipes

    Have a great weekend with homey food 😍.

    When is aadi perukku 2022?

    Aadi perukku 2022 falls on August 3rd , wednesday

    Aadi perukku recipes

    You can also make Payasam on the month of Aadi to mark it's beginning or for every Friday in this month. Check out aadi perukku payasam recipes below:

    • godhuma-rava-payasam-recipe
      Godhuma rava payasam, wheat rava payasam recipe
    • two bowls of pasi paruppu payasam
      Pasi paruppu payasam recipe | Moong dal payasam
    • semiya payasam recipe
      Semiya payasam recipe, How to make semiya payasam
    • Thengai payasam recipe
      Thengai payasam recipe, Tamil New Year Recipes

    Please refer individual recipe links for full ingredients list and instructions.

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    aadi perukku recipes
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    Aadi perukku recipes | Aadi 18 lunch menu

    Aadi perukku recipes, Aadi 18 lunch menu with full video and step by step instructions to prepare a spread.
    Course Main Course
    Cuisine Indian, South Indian
    Prep Time 20 minutes
    Cook Time 40 minutes
    Soaking time 2 hours
    Total Time 3 hours
    Servings 3
    Cup measurements

    Ingredients

    For Sakkarai pongal & curd rice

    • 1 cup Raw rice
    • Moong dal
    • Jaggery
    • 3 cups Water

    For variety rice

    • 1.5 cups Raw rice
    • 2 Cups Water
    • Coconut Grated
    • Sesame seeds
    • Curd

    For vadai

    • ½ cup Urad dal
    • Oil for deep frying
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    Instructions

    • Morning, on wake up, soak urad dal/ ulundhu for vadai and thengai sadam.
    • In a small cooker, (directly) cook 1 cup raw rice with 3 cups water for 4 whistles. This is for Curd rice and sakkarai pongal.
    • In another stove, pressure cook raw rice 1 & ½ cups with 2 cups water for 3 whistles (in medium flame after 1st whistle) for the other variety rice.
    • If you have separate containers, keep little moong dal for sakkarai pongal. Otherwise, cook separately.
    • Grate coconut for coconut rice meanwhile.
    • Once the 1 cup rice for curd rice and pongal, take half for curd rice in a vessel and leave the rest of the rice in the cooker itself.
    • Mash both and for curd rice add ½ cup hot water and salt.
    • Make jaggery syrup for pongal and prepare pongal.
    • If the rice for the other variety rice is done meanwhile, divide into 3 in three vessels and add 2 teaspoon of sesame oil in each, mix and let it cool down.
    • Now its time to give some work to the kadai. Heat it up and roast for ellu sadam, thengai sadam. Keep aside.
    • Now start tempering everything – first pongal, then curd rice, coconut rice, ellu sadam.
    • Grind for ellu sadam. That’s it, mix all the variety rice.
    • Lastly grind for vadai and heat oil in kadai for deep frying side by side.
    • Finally prepare vadai and serve hot.

    Video

    Notes

    If you want you can make avial – if you are worried about vegetables.
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    Reader Interactions

    Comments

    1. sangeetaskitchen

      August 03, 2013 at 6:32 am

      Lovely feast....wish I was still in singapore 😉

      Reply
    2. Anonymous

      August 03, 2013 at 7:49 am

      Raks. Love the menu.my fav is the puliogre and i am going to try it very soon. You have a lovely blog.

      Reply
    3. Veena Theagarajan

      August 03, 2013 at 12:34 pm

      super feast... love the spread and this post

      Reply
    4. nirupamasundar

      August 03, 2013 at 12:55 pm

      Dear,
      This is indeed a very useful post and ur " modus operandi" is sure to guide lots of people, including the experienced cooks. I greatly appreciate ur work, the spread and the guidance involved. keep it up.

      Reply
    5. Srivalli

      August 03, 2013 at 5:03 pm

      Lovely pictures Raji..

      Reply
    6. Raks anand

      August 03, 2013 at 6:27 pm

      Haha thanks so much 🙂

      Reply
    7. Gayathri Ramanan

      August 04, 2013 at 12:37 am

      Delicious aadi perukku recipes..lovely post...well explained Raks...

      Reply
    8. Ms.Chitchat

      August 04, 2013 at 7:31 am

      Lovely lip smacking recipes, amazing click as always :):)

      Reply
    9. BAGIRATHI DEVI

      August 04, 2013 at 4:25 pm

      5 stars
      Ur guidance is very use ful lot of thanks

      Reply
    10. Geetha

      August 04, 2013 at 5:11 pm

      Hi, I like you blog and have tried few recipes as well. Btw, I read about your blog in 3rd Aug. Deccan Herald, Living, B'lore edition. Nice tips about coffee from you blog! 🙂

      Reply
    11. Raks anand

      August 05, 2013 at 12:15 am

      Hi Geetha, Thank you! I never knew that, thanks for the info, I read it too just now.

      Reply
    12. Harini M

      August 05, 2013 at 8:34 am

      This spread looks just awesome 🙂

      Reply
    13. Priya Suresh

      August 05, 2013 at 9:51 am

      Lovely spread..Makes me hungry.

      Reply
    14. Balachandrika Kandaswamy

      August 05, 2013 at 6:06 pm

      looks yummy. Makes me hungry. Please try this recipe as well http://www.ennillam.com/2013/07/green-pepper-long-varieties-bajji.html

      I would like to participate in cooking events. Please let me know if you are hosting any event.

      Thank u so much for being my inspiration in cooking.

      Reply
    15. Chitz

      August 06, 2013 at 2:40 pm

      5 stars
      U r saying hardly an hour.. Ohh my, u r such an expert then.. Btw, a lovely spread of yummy variety rice 🙂

      Reply
    16. GK Arusuvai

      August 12, 2013 at 6:57 am

      5 stars
      Tats a brilliant idea...so fast n yummy !! Pls share more of this kinda step by step tips to save time in future....ive got lots of practicing to do....tks !!

      Reply
    17. SHARMILEE J

      August 13, 2013 at 11:30 am

      Wow super spread!!

      Reply
    18. Santhi Devi

      August 04, 2014 at 5:18 am

      5 stars
      Today I tried this lunch menu for Aadi peerukku.Thanks a lot for ur guidance.At first I thought making variety rices at a go would be hectic but ur steps boosted up me a lot and it turned good.We all enjoyed the lunch.Thank u once again.

      Reply
    19. Sridevi Chakaravarthi

      August 05, 2015 at 5:40 pm

      Lovely raji

      Reply
    20. MANIMEKALAI RAMKUMAR

      August 12, 2017 at 1:16 am

      Dear Raji,

      Thanks for Aadi 18th , The same time need Varalakshmi Pooja Menu

      Thanks

      Reply
    21. Raks anand

      August 12, 2017 at 1:50 am

      We do not have that practise, so have no idea about varalakshmi pooja menu. Will try if I get any authentic source.

      Reply

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