South Indian Festive Special Lunch Menu | Vinayaka Chaturthi Thali

A lunch menu with assorted kozhukattai, and you might have guessed it by now! Yes, it’s a Vinayaka Chaturthi special lunch menu, and that’s what I am sharing today. 

If it was Gowri habba festive spread yesterday, then it has to be Ganesha spread today! That’s how it is in our household. I still remember my grand father’s annual ceremony/thithi also comes around this Gowri-Ganesha time. 

And my mom won’t miss any festivals or rituals and follows everything duly and prepares excellent meals effortlessly. My mom is my cooking guru, and I aspire to be my mom. But I have a long way to go. :-)

Anyways, coming back to the thali. I keep my Vinayaka Chaturthi spread simple as I spend more time making atleast 3 to 4 varieties of kozhukattai.  

I skip kheer and also make one-pot bisibelebath or sambar sadam and yogurt rice always. Sometimes instead of dry curry or poriyal, I end up making sundal and pair it with rice. For this thali, I made a dry poriyal, so I skipped the sundal. I reduce the main course dishes and focus on the kozhukattai. 

You can also make the kozhukattai filling the day before, which helps in the festive day morning. As I mentioned in my other festive thali post, you can make these thalis as elaborate as you want. It ultimately depends upon your time and situation. 

Vinayaka Chaturthi Thali-

Now coming back to this plate, I have bisibelebath, but I used quinoa instead of rice. And I paired it with purple cabbage poriyal. Also, I made some rasam and white rice. Rasam is part and parcel of our festive thali, and I usually love to drink rasam, especially after a heavy meal. So I try not to skip it. 

Along with kozhukattai, as always, I have some chigali, tambittu, and raw rice idli. I made aval vadai, but as I fried it after frying the green appalam, the oil had many residues and got stuck in the vadai. Hence the color. 

I will be sharing the aval vadai recipe soon. Except for that and raw rice idli, you can find all the other links below. 

Easy Bisi Bele Bath | Pressure Cooker BisiBeleBath

My version of the Karnataka special Bisi Bele Bath, curried lentil rice made in the pressure cooker. A perfect weekday recipe that can be prepared in no time.

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Paruppu Rasam | Dal Rasam | South Indian Lentil Soup

Paruppu Rasam – Traditional and authentic South Indian lentil soup prepared with homemade spices and toor dal. A comforting and staple recipe from South India.

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Cabbage Dry Curry | Cabbage Poriyal

Steamed cabbage curry with coconut in a simple coconut oil tempering. A recipe with minimal ingredients that can be a side for your rice or that can be a salad too.

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Bagalabath | Curd Rice | Thayir Sadam

A delicious and a creamy South Indian style spiced curd/yogurt rice recipe prepared with yogurt, rice, and milk with detailed instructions and step-wise pictures. It is popularly known as bagalabath or daddojanam or Thayir Sadam.

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Akki Tambittu | Easy No-Cook Rice-Flour Laddu

A simple gluten-free no-cook rice flour laddu popularly known akki tambittu in Kannada that we make for all the festivals!

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Chigali | Ellu Unde | Sesame Seeds Laddu

A simple yet healthy laddu with black sesame seeds and jaggery popular known as chigali or ellu unde. Easy sesame seeds laddu recipe!

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Thengai Poorana Kozhukattai | Modakam | Sweet Kozhukattai Recipe

Kozhukattai or Modak – The famous Indian steamed sweet dumplings stuffed with coconut and jaggery offered as prasadam or neivediyam during festivals.

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Ellu Kozhukattai | Sesame Seeds Modak

Ellu Kozhukattai – Steamed sweet dumplings stuffed with sesame seeds and jaggery mixture offered as prasadam or neivediyam during festivals. Here is my recipe for kozhukattai with store-bought rice flour.

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Ulundu Kozhukattai | Uppu Kozhukattai | Urad Dal Poornam Kozhukattai

Ulundu kozhukattai – a steamed savory dumpling stuffed with spicy urad dal filling or the urad dal pooranam. Uppu kozhukattai with store-bought rice flour.

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Indian Gooseberry Pickle | Nellikai Oorugai

A lip-smacking instant gooseberry pickle or nellikai oorugai as we say in Tamil with frozen gooseberries! Easy pickle recipe with frozen gooseberries.

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