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    Home » Lunch menus

    Lunch menu 36 - Vazhaipoo vadai, Sambar, small potato curry

    May 3, 2014 by Raks Anand 12 Comments /

    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.

    sambar curry vadai

    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

    Lunch menu 36 - Vazhaipoo vadai, Sambar, curry

    Recipe Cuisine: Indian   |  Recipe Category: Lunch
    Prep Time: 2 Hr     |  Cook time: 1 Hr    |  Serves: 3

    1. Soak dal for vadai as soon as you finish your breakfast work.
    2. 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.
    3. 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.
    4. Clean and prepare broad beans for sambar, keep aside.
    5. 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.
    6. 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.
    7. 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.

    vadai sambar and curry

    Recipe links

    Check out the links.

    1. Avaraikai / broad beans sambar
    2. Small potato curry recipe
    3. Vazhaipoo / banana flower vadai recipe

    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!

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    Reader Interactions

    Comments

    1. Sayantani

      May 03, 2014 at 1:27 pm

      what a spread. love your menu idea series.

      Reply
    2. Sindhujabalaji

      May 03, 2014 at 2:04 pm

      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

      Reply
    3. Sathya Priya

      May 03, 2014 at 3:13 pm

      Love the valaipoo vadai so much ...Whole meal is irresistible

      Reply
    4. Mathi Ravi

      May 03, 2014 at 3:39 pm

      Love it!! Vazhai poo vadai is out of the world ........ Slurrppppp.......

      Reply
    5. Sireesha Puppala

      May 03, 2014 at 10:04 pm

      this looks fabulous! very pleasing menu

      Reply
    6. Pavithra Manoj

      May 04, 2014 at 4:53 am

      super lunch menu, want to do for my lunch

      Reply
    7. Ms.Chitchat

      May 04, 2014 at 9:39 am

      Tasty platter, the vadai is tooooo tempting.

      Reply
    8. Chandra

      May 05, 2014 at 2:48 am

      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

      Reply
    9. Mahalakshmi

      May 05, 2014 at 4:06 am

      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.

      Reply
    10. nandoos Kitchen

      May 05, 2014 at 9:24 am

      simple and tasty platter..

      Reply
    11. kalai vani

      September 10, 2016 at 2:34 pm

      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.

      Reply
    12. Raks anand

      September 10, 2016 at 2:41 pm

      Mine is 4litre prestige pressure cooker.

      Reply

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