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Home » LUNCH MENUS » South Indian menu » Lunch menu 19 – South Indian lunch ideas

Lunch menu 19 – South Indian lunch ideas

September 21, 2013 by Raks Anand 13 Comments /

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This week’s lunch is a healthy one with my favourite Karuveppilai  kuzhambu. I have been craving for some tangy kuzhambu, so thought of trying this. I got all the veggies today fresh from Little India and got a bunch of curry leaves. So immediately decided to make use in this kuzhambu. This is very healthy, everyone knows the benefits of curry leaves, its rich in Iron. Its best home remedy to slow down greying of hair. When you see your first grey hair, include curry leaves more in you every day diet and the rate of greying sure will slow down. This is the best way to include curry leaves in diet. Otherwise, if we use in tempering and other ways in our cooking, we may pick it and throw away without eating it. SO here’s how I prepared today’s meal.

South Indian lunch idea

Recipe Cuisine:Indian   |  Recipe Category: Lunch
Prep Time: 20 mins    |  Cook time: 40 mins    |  Serves: 3

  1. Kept the pressure cooker with rice and dal (for kootu) separately in different vessels. Soaked the required tamarind in hot water.
  2. Meanwhile, I cleaned the curry leaves, then keerai (spinach), peeled onion and garlic for the kuzhambu and then ladies finger, chopped everything.
  3. Grated coconut for kootu and poriyal. By now the cooker was done. Then I extracted tamarind juice. Started cooking spinach for kootu.
  4. As it was getting cooked, I ground for kootu and then curry leaves for kuzhambu.
  5. Prepared kootu – this time, followed MIL method of adding only green chillies along with the keerai instead of sambar powder- it gives greeny look! Then temper kootu, temper for kuzhambu and let it boil in another stove.
  6. Prepared poriyal as the kuzhambu getting boiled and now everything ready. I also fried some javvarisi vadam and some sundakkai vathal mom passed me.

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Here are the links to the recipes in the above plate :

  1. Karuveppilai kuzhambu recipe
  2. Keerai kootu recipe 
  3. Vendakkai poriyal recipe

Instead of keerai kootu you can also try other kootu and vazhakkai poriyal can also be replaced for vendakkai poriyal.

Check our Karuveppilai podi recipe if interested!

Have a great weekend! 😊

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  1. jeyashri suresh

    September 21, 2013 at 9:35 am

    Super healthy and fantastic meal.

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  2. Sowmya Madhavan

    September 21, 2013 at 9:48 am

    very nice tempting meal..i posted curry leaves chutney today..want to try the kuzhumbu with it sometime..

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  3. Shama Nagarajan

    September 21, 2013 at 10:43 am

    you rock as always raji…drooling!!!

    Reply
  4. BAGIRATHI DEVI

    September 21, 2013 at 4:13 pm

    It's look very nice. I love small bowl.

    Reply
  5. Pooja Agrawal

    September 21, 2013 at 9:10 pm

    Healthy and complete meal…clicks are awesome!

    Reply
  6. Janani

    September 22, 2013 at 2:03 am

    wow very nice menu raks.I am going to try curryleaves kulambhu tomo for lunch.

    Reply
  7. AparnaRajeshkumar

    September 22, 2013 at 3:48 am

    Keerai is tempting !

    Reply
  8. Shabitha Karthikeyan

    September 22, 2013 at 3:52 am

    Looks super tempting !!

    Reply
  9. Arjunan Akilandeswari

    September 22, 2013 at 4:43 am

    Lovely lunch….

    Reply
  10. Sushma Madhuchandra

    September 22, 2013 at 10:36 pm

    very tempting lunch!

    Reply
  11. Harini M

    September 23, 2013 at 7:14 am

    Awesome writeup with beautiful clicks.A very healthy plate indeed

    Reply
  12. Rama

    April 19, 2020 at 9:50 pm

    Hi Rajeswari, I’m Rama and today I tried your lunch menu no. 19. I’m not good at Indian cooking and your recipes are simple to follow.

    Your curry leave curry was a first time experience for my entire family. Just would like to know, whether its okay to put in more curry leaves and reduce the tamarind from 2 cups to 1 cup instead. Another 1 cup to replace with water. Your keerai and lady’s finger recipe was simple tasty. Thank you so much for sharing. God bless you and your family

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    • Raks Anand

      April 19, 2020 at 9:55 pm

      Thank you. Tamarind water quantity depends on the tartness/ tanginess of the variety of tamarind you use and how thick you extract the juice from it. So you can feel free to adjust accordingly. Just keep in mind if you use more tamarind water (strength of tanginess) it will be tangy and not spicy. If you use less than needed, it will give you raw greenish flavour of curry leaves. Hope this helps.

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