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    Home » Recipes » Lunch menus

    South Indian lunch recipes | Lunch menu 34

    April 12, 2014 by Raks Anand 8 Comments /

    South Indian lunch recipes with sambar, rasam, poriyal, varuval and thogayal. A comforting lunch menu with all the ingredients in my availability.

    simple every day south Indian menu
    A 3 course menu with thogayal, sambar and rasam

    Mangoes are in season and I am sure you all cooking mango for your lunch.

    I had a mango sitting in my fridge vegetable trays bottom for past 2 weeks, but still it was good.

    Was saving it for making mango thokku but kept forgetting about it. Today, I got 2 more mangoes and thought I should finish this mango before it goes for waste.

    Same way there was a drumstick. So made a combo sambar. I think I have already posted this in my lunch menu series when I was at Chennai last summer.

    And here is how I made this simple lunch menu today.

    Instructions

    Lunch menu 34 (South Indian Lunch)

    Recipe Cuisine: Indian   |  Recipe Category: Lunch
    Prep Time: 30 mins     |  Cook time: 45 mins    |  Serves: 3

    1. Pressure cook dal for sambar. Side by side rice.
    2. Soak tamarind for sambar and rasam and extract tamarind juice.
    3. Thinly slice for bitter gourd chips and mix all the ingredients needed and keep refrigerated.
    4. Chop tomato for sambar, rasam. Onion for sambar, poriyal. Cut drumstick and boil it side by side.
    5. Chop carrot, cook it and mean while grate coconut for poriyal and coconut thogaiyal.
    6. Heat kadai, first roast ingredients for coconut thogaiyal. Then temper for rasam and transfer to the serving vessel, then for sambar and sambar get ready in a stove.
    7. Next make poriyal and transfer to the serving bowl. Prepare rasam and transfer over the tempered items kept in the serving bowl.
    8. Grind thogayal. Lastly, heat oil in kadai fry few papad and then lastly fry the bitter gourd chips.

    And you lunch is ready with thogaiyal , Drumstick mango sambar, rasam, carrot poriyal, bitter gourd chips, buttermilk, appalam, pickle and Rice.

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    Recipe links

    Check out the links for these posts

    1. Mango sambar recipe
    2. Rasam recipe
    3. Coconut thogaiyal recipe
    4. Carrot poriyal recipe
    5. Bitter gourd chips recipe
    6. Pickle recipes

    In my mango sambar recipe, I have added mango lastly. Since we make with drumstick, first we have to boil it then later add mango lastly.

    You can make mango, drumstick and brinjal combination too. It tastes great.

    In this menu, bitter gourd chips takes a while to fry. So you can make ahead and store in airtight container in fridge.

    Check out this crispy ladies finger fries. Check out other thogayal recipes too. Have a great day!

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    Reader Interactions

    Comments

    1. Ramya Krishnamurthy

      April 12, 2014 at 12:32 pm

      Yummy platter raks

      Reply
    2. Malar V

      April 12, 2014 at 3:48 pm

      Love it. thanks raks.

      Reply
    3. Hari Chandana P

      April 13, 2014 at 7:25 am

      Inviting platter!!

      Reply
    4. Priya Suresh

      April 13, 2014 at 1:21 pm

      Wonderful lunch menu, feel like inviting myself to ur place.

      Reply
    5. Kaveri Venkatesh

      April 13, 2014 at 3:29 pm

      Mmm...very tempting spread

      Reply
    6. divya's cooking

      April 15, 2014 at 12:40 am

      mouth watering raks.

      Reply
    7. Rashmi

      October 19, 2014 at 7:29 am

      lovely quick menu idea... will probably add a payasam and make this for my diwali lunch..

      Reply
    8. Rashmi

      October 19, 2014 at 7:29 am

      lovely quick menu... maybe, will just add one payasam and make it for my diwali lunch..

      Reply

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