There was an announcement to all Food Buzz Featured Publishers, inviting for proposals for their monthly event Foodbuzz 24*24. The blogger must give a meal plan for some guests and if selected the post will be up in that particular section. To try my luck, I added my proposal for an authentic South Indian Lunch in their form and kept my fingers crossed. After a week, I got a mail saying that my proposal has been accepted. I was very happy and I wanted to use this great opportunity. As I don’t have relatives here, I asked my DH if he could invite his boys for lunch. He readily agreed and I started preparing for the Virundhu (South Indian Party) I planned on serving them on banana leaves.
The party was scheduled yesterday and they all reached at time for lunch. I woke up early in the morning and started the preparations. As a blogger, I needed to take the snaps of all the dishes before the guests arrived. Hubby helped me a lot yesterday. Even my daughter didn’t disturb me. After successful completion of the dishes, hubby went to office to invite the guests. The table was set and I was so busy serving them, I completely forgot to take a snap. Midway, I remembered and took a snap of the virundhu. After Virundhu, every one sat for a chat and I served them with fresh sweet lime juice to finish off the party. Every one enjoyed their meal and I am so happy for that.
I laid out the Banana Leaves and placed a glass of water on the left side corner of each leaf. The meal started with a sweet- Semiya Kesari (sweet made with vermicelli) Then I served them Cauliflower roasts. I deep fried them the last moment, to provide the guests with hot crunchy roasts. Then I served all the side dishes. While I was serving the poriyals, my daughter served them the appalam. Then came the rice and sambar. Once finished with sambar, they went on to rice and coconut milk rasam. Then came rice and curd along with ginger pickle. The dessert was vermicelli and moong dhal payasam. With the payasam meal came to an end. While guest are having their meal, the host has to serve them with the side dishes they prefer most. When ever a side dish goes empty on the leaf, it has to be filled. This is the way of serving in traditional way.
Enjoying their lunch
I will give the recipe for Coconut Milk Rasam and link to all other recipes served during this meal.
Thengai Paal / Coconut Milk Rasam:
Rasam is South Indian Soup. This is always relished with hot rice. This rasam is quite rich in taste because of the addition of coconut milk.
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Looks very inviting Gayathri…despite being a south-indian myself, i’ve never heard of thengai pal rasam! i’ve only heard it being used in stews and sweet dishes…this looks so different. I’ll try it out soon!
i am a total fan of South Indian cuisine…and this spread is a absolute treat..Gayatri awsum job!!…love the clicks ..specially Seviya Payasam..n of course hubbys are darlings..they always love to help their wives:))heartiest congrats!!…n keep it up!!
Amazing! This is a virundhu for my eyes! 🙂 😀 I love eating in banana leaves. In fact, every dwadasi, amma makes mor kuzhambu & mysore rasam and I eat on vazha elai with appalaams! Namba tamizh saapadu bestu!! 😀
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Wowee- tht’s a virundhu I would have loved to devour Gayathri; nice post for the foodbuzz- kudos
Many congratulations gayatri 🙂 & you have really managed a great spread..
Nice combo,mika arumaiyaana thali saappaadu , virunthu arumai
wow this looks awesome
superb.nice picks.wow! tasty veg recipes.
Excellent Gayathri, this is good go to place for south indian party menu
Wow lovely spread…looks very inviting
nice spread…super virunthu!
Awesome spread Gayathri..that’s surely a treat!
Looks very inviting Gayathri…despite being a south-indian myself, i’ve never heard of thengai pal rasam! i’ve only heard it being used in stews and sweet dishes…this looks so different. I’ll try it out soon!
That is a nice vindhu, Gayathri! All the dishes look delicious !
Looks great. What a spread. Some of the dishes are new to me.
What a wonderful spread, vazhai ilaiyele saapidrathe thani rusi illaya..
i am a total fan of South Indian cuisine…and this spread is a absolute treat..Gayatri awsum job!!…love the clicks ..specially Seviya Payasam..n of course hubbys are darlings..they always love to help their wives:))heartiest congrats!!…n keep it up!!
wow romba nalla virundhu. I am actually hungry after seeing all the dishes.please lay out a vazha ellai for me also I am coming over.
Wow!!!enakku virundhu venum gayatri…looks awesome
Perfectly traditional spread. I grew up enjoying these traditional feasts and i miss them terribly ! Thanks for stirring up my memories 🙂
Congrats Gayatri. Looks great.
Awesome gayathri…looks gr8!!
Good one Gayathri. Inviting platters.
Amazing! This is a virundhu for my eyes! 🙂 😀 I love eating in banana leaves. In fact, every dwadasi, amma makes mor kuzhambu & mysore rasam and I eat on vazha elai with appalaams! Namba tamizh saapadu bestu!! 😀
That was amazing Gayathri.
I wish I could have been Madurai at this time 🙁
That’s am amazing platter Gayathri. Reminded me the festive meals we used to have back in India. 🙂
Super virunthu! 😛
wow…superb virunthu…spread looks inviting…coconut milk rasam is new to me sounds so yum…will try it for sure!!
Superb yummy traditional lunch…
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Gayathri,
Traditional thali looks great and so delicious…
Thanks for sharing such a lovely cooked spread with us
Wow!…the spread is absolutely inviting and delicious! all the items are perfect for a thali and are tempting too!
nice one Gay !
thanks for sharing..
kalakitingo mammi.superb virindu. Its a long way for me to get to this level.
Everything looks so delicious! Congrats on the 24×24!
Chance-e illai gayathri, tasty platter there!!!! I m bookmarking coconut milk rasam!!!!
Yum! Hope to try some of these recipes soon!
oh wow, this’s totally scrumptious! I want an invite for sadhya!!
Good day! It was such a huge pleasure to visit this blog and in particularly to read this blog article. Also I wanted to ask you one thing that I am interested about. What do you think about guest blogging?