South Indian lunch
South Indian lunch

Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, south indian lunch. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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South Indian lunch is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. South Indian lunch is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have south indian lunch using 37 ingredients and 51 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make South Indian lunch:
  1. Get Ingredients for idli
  2. Make ready 3 cup Idli rice
  3. Make ready 3/4 cup Sabudana / sago
  4. Prepare 1 cup Whole skinless urad dal
  5. Get to taste Salt
  6. Get Ingredients for dosa
  7. Take 1 cup Raw rice
  8. Prepare 1 cup Idli rice
  9. Prepare 1/2 cup Urad dal
  10. Make ready 2 tsp Chana dal
  11. Prepare 1/4 cup Poha/ aval/ flattened rice
  12. Make ready as needed Salt
  13. Make ready Ingredients for sambar
  14. Prepare 1/4 cup Toor dal heaped
  15. Make ready 1 Potato
  16. Take 10 Shallots (small onion)
  17. Take 2 Green chilli
  18. Prepare 1 Tomato
  19. Prepare 1 tsp Tamarind small marble size
  20. Make ready 1/4 tsp Turmeric powder
  21. Take 1 tsp Jaggery powdered
  22. Get 1/4 tsp Asafoetida
  23. Take 2 tsp Curry leaves
  24. Take 1 tsp Coriander leaves
  25. Get to taste Salt
  26. Take To Temper
  27. Get 3/4 tsp Mustard seeds
  28. Prepare 1/2 tsp Cumin seeds
  29. Make ready 1 spring Curry leaves
  30. Get 1 pinch Asafoetida
  31. Get 2 tsp Oil
  32. Take Ingredients for coconut chutney
  33. Take 1/2 cup Grated coconut
  34. Make ready 2 tsp Fried gram dal (pottukadalai)
  35. Take 2 Green chillies
  36. Make ready As needed water
  37. Get to taste salt

Rice-Rasam (any rasam)-Kootu (any kootu)-Thuvaiyal (any thuvaiyal)-Curd. South Indian Sambar is a delicious curry with softly boiled and mashed lentil and vegetables. It is a traditional South Indian dish served with rice. We South Indians take our lunch seriously.

Instructions to make South Indian lunch:
  1. METHOD OF IDLI*
  2. Take the fermented batter. - No need to mix again,use the batter as it is.
  3. Meanwhile keep the steamer ready. - Line the moulds with cotton cloth or grease the idli moulds with little oil
  4. Pour the batter in each mould. - While keeping the plates on the stand second plate deep mould should be over the holes of the first plate.
  5. Steam it for 10 to 12 mins on medium flame.
  6. Once done remove the stand from the steamer and keep aside for 1 min to cool.
  7. Remove the plate from the stand and invert over a plate. Remove the idli plate and sprinkle some water over the backside of the cooked idlis. Slowly separate the cloth from the Idlis. Soft fluffy Idlis are ready to serve.
  8. METHOD OF DOSA*
  9. Firstly, in a large bowl, soak 3 cups of rice and methi seeds for at least 5 hours. - furthermore, soak urad dal for 3 hours.
  10. Drain the water from urad dal and keep aside. - transfer the soaked urad dal into blender and blend to smooth and fluffy batter.
  11. Collect it into a large bowl and keep aside. - further, blend the soaked rice along with poha adding water if required. - transfer to the bowl of urad dal batter.
  12. Mix well making sure the batter has combined completely. - also clean the sides with your hand.
  13. Cover and ferment in a warm place for 8- 12 hours. - the next day you can see the batter has raised well indicating it's well fermented.
  14. Further scoop the required batter in a different bowl. - and add salt to the batter and mix well.
  15. Furthermore, heat griddle and pour a ladleful of the batter on it and spread it in a circular motion thin circle.
  16. Also smear a little oil over it. - then cover the dosa for a minute and cook till the bottom of dosa turns golden brown. - finally, fold over to make a semi-circle or a roll and serve immediately with coconut chutney and sambar
  17. METHOD OF SAMBHAR*
  18. Heat oil in a thick bottom pan.
  19. Add the mustard seed.Once it crackles add the methi seeds followed by red chilli, curry leaves, asafoetida and shallots fry till the onion turns golden brown.
  20. Lower the flame. - Add the grated coconut and fry till light brown.
  21. Add the sambhar powder and fry for 3 – 4 seconds[ be careful the masala powder should not burn]
  22. Immediately add the tamarind juice and jaggery.
  23. Increase the flame to medium and cook till oil separates and raw smell of tamarind leaves.
  24. Add the ladies finger and mix well.
  25. Add the dal and boil for few minutes.
  26. Once done garnish with finely chopped coriander leaves.
  27. Ready to serve
  28. METHOD OF CHUTNEY*
  29. First grind coconut, chilli, daria dal and salt together without water.
  30. Then add warm water according to the consistency you want and grind.
  31. For thick chutney grind it coarsely and add less water.
  32. For thin chutney grind to a smooth paste and add more water.
  33. Transfer it to a bowl.
  34. Heat oil in a pan.
  35. Add mustard seeds and urad dal.
  36. Once they splutter add curryleaves
  37. Ready to serve
  38. METHOD OF Rava KESARI*
  39. Firstly, heat 2 tbsp ghee / clarified butter and roast 10 cashews, 1 tbsp raisins on low flame.
  40. Once the cashews turn golden brown, keep aside. - now in the same ghee roast ½ cup bombay rava.
  41. Use fine / coarse variety rava. - roast on low flame for 5 minutes or till it turns aromatic. keep aside.
  42. In a large kadai boil 1 cup water.
  43. Keeping the flame on low, add in ½ cup roasted bombay rava. - stir continuously till the rava absorbs water and no lumps are formed.
  44. Further add ¾ cup sugar (add ½-1 cup depending on sweetness you prefer). - keeping the flame on low, stir well till the sugar dissolves.
  45. Furthermore add 2 tbsp saffron water or kesari food colour. (soak few treads of saffron in 2 tbsp of warm water for 15 minutes)
  46. Also and ¼ cup ghee and stir continuously.
  47. Make sure the mixture is combined well and no lumps are present.
  48. Cover and simmer for 2 minutes or till rava gets cooked well completely.
  49. Additionally add roasted cashews, raisins and ¼ tsp cardamom power.
  50. Mix well till the rava kesari separates from pan.
  51. Finally, serve rava kesari / kesari bath as a dessert.

In our house, mostly lunch is vegetarian except on weekends when we indulge in non veg dishes. Our typical lunch menu has kulambu, poriyal, avial may be a sweet. Amma makes a elaborate full meals when we have guest over, it will be like a wedding meal. South Indian weddings aren't replete without the lunch being served on the 'Thalai Vazhai Ilai' known as the raw banana leaf in English. The large leaf, loaded with delicacies, is a must in every marriage.

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