South Indian lunch idea - cooking for guest

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South Indian lunch combo

MEAL PLANNING

• if you are using frozen coconut, thaw them

To chop

• Mixed vegetables for Aviyal
• Small onion and drumstick for sambar
• Tomato for rasam and sambar
• Potato for potato fry

TO SOAK

• Toor dal for Sambar and rasam
• Mixed dal and red chilli for vadai

To saute

• Saute rice in ghee for Payasam
• Chana dal, coriander seeds, red chilli, and a small onion for Sambar

PRESSURE COOK

• Potato for Poriyal
• Cook Rice 
• Toor dal for Sambar and Rasam

To grind 

• Mixed dal, red chilli along with other required ingredients  for vadai
• Ingredients for Arachuvitta sambar
• coconut, green chilli, curd, and water for  aviyal
• Pulse rice for Payasam

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ARACHUVITTA SAMBAR 

The original sambar recipe is with radish and onion but for this sambar, I have used small onions, and drumstick

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

 

Check out potato-based recipes, and  poriyal recipes in TMF

Aviyal

• Cook vegetables, salt. water and ground paste for 1 minute and do a quick release
• Add rice flour and mix well
• After everything is cool add curd and mix well
• Finally, temper curry leaves in coconut oil and add

Instant pot Paal payasam

• Add pulsed rice, sugar, milk, and steam cook
• After pressure release naturally, boil the payasam

Checkout other payasam recipes in TMF

Paruppu VADAI

• Mix all the ingredients for vadai
• Flatten them and shallow fry vadai in griddle. Alternatively, you can deep dry or bake vadai

Check out other vadai recipes in TMF

• Serve the meal with a dollop of ghee and pickle  variety of your choice

I served with Cranberry pickle