A simple lunch menu with sambar, curry and vadai. Banana blossom is available here in Singapore easily. So I buy very often and use it in my cooking.

For a while, I was ignoring the vazhaipoo (banana blossom) in Mustafa. I think what we get in Mustafa is from Malaysia and the one in Laavan is from India.
It's so very different from the Malaysian vazhaipoo. Most of the time I buy and cook it within one or two days, otherwise it will be turning black.
I make poriyal to make use of the big flower in one time. This time somehow craving for vazhaipoo vadai.
It's been a long time since I made vadai, so decided to make vadai and post it in lunch menu too.
Since vazhaipoo cleaning and cutting process involves time, I made a simple menu, but a catch one, since it has vadai and these cute baby potato fry in it.
Instructions
Recipe Cuisine: Indian | Recipe Category: Lunch
Prep Time: 2 Hr | Cook time: 1 Hr | Serves: 3
- Soak dal for vadai as soon as you finish your breakfast work.
- Pressure cook dal, baby potatoes in a pressure cooker if you have two separator containers. You can keep rice once this is done. Soak tamarind for sambar.
- Mean while you can start the cleaning and chopping of vazhaipoo. Since we are gonna use the outer part and only half of it, its wont take too much time. Keep it immersed in water with lemon juice or buttermilk until use.
- Clean and prepare broad beans for sambar, keep aside.
- Chop onion for sambar, vadai, a tomato for sambar and extract tamarind for sambar. Peel the potatoes and keep ready. Keep all other ingredients like curry leaves too ready.
- First prepare sambar and while it boils, prepare small potato curry. Sambar will take a while until curry gets ready as broad beans takes some time to get cooked.
- Lastly, you can prepare vadai and keep ready before serving the lunch.
Serve avarakkai sambar, baby potato curry, vazhaipoo vadai along with rice and end your meal with buttermilk to keep yourself cool in this summer.
Recipe links
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You can make the regular potato curry too. Check out the other sambar recipes too. keerai sambar recipe, mango sambar recipe, arachuvitta samabr recipe.
Happy Weekend!
Sayantani
what a spread. love your menu idea series.
Sindhujabalaji
Pls pass ts plate to me...i grab it wtout any second thought....mom prepares vadai mom through ural...it gvs extra flavour to vadai....ur vadai bring back to tat memories
Sathya Priya
Love the valaipoo vadai so much ...Whole meal is irresistible
Mathi Ravi
Love it!! Vazhai poo vadai is out of the world ........ Slurrppppp.......
Sireesha Puppala
this looks fabulous! very pleasing menu
Pavithra Manoj
super lunch menu, want to do for my lunch
Ms.Chitchat
Tasty platter, the vadai is tooooo tempting.
Chandra
I was just thinking of Vaazhai Poo last week, when I made Paruppu Usili.
I have to look for some at the the Indian store.
I have some more ready-made rasam powder left, after which, I am going to try your recipe.
Peace,
Chandra
Mahalakshmi
The combination is pakka!! vaazhaipoo vadai I like it very much and my all time favourite sambar is avarakkai sambar.it gives special taste to the sambar.
nandoos Kitchen
simple and tasty platter..
kalai vani
you said you cooked dal and potato in pressure cooker using cooker seperator, mam I m too panning to buy cooker seperator .Plz suggest me which would be fine for a member of 3 .3l cooker or 5l cooker?.currently i m using 2.5l cookers for cooking dal and rice.
Raks anand
Mine is 4litre prestige pressure cooker.