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    Home » Indian lunch combo » Pongal lunch menu | Pongal festival lunch

    Pongal lunch menu | Pongal festival lunch

    January 9, 2022 By Vidya Srinivasan 1 Comment

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    Festival lunch preparation

    To chop

    • Mixed vegetables for sambar
    • Tomato for rasam
    • Beans for poriyal
    • Cucumber for pachadi
    • Raw mango for pickle
    • Cashews for Ven pongal and Sakkarai pongal

    To Soak

    • Soak urad dal for vadai
    • toor dal for sambar and rasam 
    • Rice and moong dal for Ven pongal and Sakkarai pongal

    If you are using frozen coconut thaw them

    To Pressure cook

    • Toor dal for sambar and rasam
    • Cook rice
    • Beans with little water, oil, and salt for beans poriyal
    • Potatoes with turmeric powder and water for potato fry
    • Rice, moong dal, water and ghee for Ven pongal and Sakkarai pongal

    To Grind

    • Coconut and green chilli for Cucumber pachadi
    • Urad dal with little cold water for vadai

    To Temper

    • Mustard seed in ghee for Cucumber pachadi
    • Cashews and raisins in ghee for Sakkarai pongal
    • Mustard seeds, fenugreek seeds, and cumin seeds in ghee for Rasam
    • Cashee ,pepper, curry leaves, cumin seeds and ginger in ghee for Ven pongal
    • Urad dal, mustard seeds, and red chili in coconut oil for Beans poriyal
    • Mustard seeds in sesame oil for Instant mango pickle

    For a detailed recipe link with ingredients and instructions pls. Click on the image 

    Pongal festival lunch

    Sakkarai Pongal

    • Prepare jaggery water and strain 
    • Mash the cooked dal and rice and add milk
    • Add jaggery water, cardamom powder, ghee and pinch of salt; cook
    • Finally add pinch of edible camphor and turn off the stove

    Ven pongal

    • Mash the cooked rice and dal
    • Add water, salt and ghee; mix well. Cook for 3 minutes
    • Finally add tempering; mix well and turn off the stove 

     

    Other Pongal recipes in TMF

    Mixed vegetables Sambar 

    • Temper and saute vegetables
    • Add sambar powder,  tamarind paste, water, and other required ingredients for sambar; boil 
    • Furthermore, add dal and boil
    • Finally add coriander leaves and asafeotida; boil 

    Check out  sambar, kuzhambu recipes, coconut-based recipes, kootu recipes in TMF

    Paruppu rasam

    • Saute tomatoes
    • Boil tamarind, rasam powder, salt, and other ingredients 
    • Add cooked dal and bring to a frothy boil
    • Finally, add the tempering and turn off the rasam

    Check out other rasam varieties in TMF 

    Potato Fry

    • Peel the potato and roughly chop them
    • Do tempering and add the required ingredients, saute potato in low flame

    Beans poriyal

    • To the bean poriyal tempering, add cooked beans and coconut and prepare poriyal

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    Check out beans paruppu usili, beans thengai podi usili, potato-based recipes, and  poriyal recipes in TMF

    Medu vadai

    • Refrigerate the vadai batter for 30 minutes
    • Heat oil
    • Mix all the ingredients for vadai and fry vadai

    Check out other vadai recipes in TMF

    Instant mango pickle

    • In a mixing bowl add chopped mangoes, red chilli powder, salt, and fenugreek powder
    • Finally, add the tempering and mix well

    Check out other pickle varieties in TMF

    • Add salt to the  dal and mix well
    • Serve the meal with a dollop of ghee

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    1. alice jessuraj

      January 12, 2022 at 10:57 pm

      This is amazing. For someone like me who finds its so overwhelming to plan and decide what you have in steps is a life saver. thank you. will be trying it this Pongal 🙂

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