Welcome Drinks

Paanakam

A refreshing drink which contains jaggery, lemon, cardamom and dried powdered ginger to whip up an appetite and Neer Mor (spiced up and chilled butter milk which contrasts beautifully with the Panakam and complements the meal)

Main Course

The serving of each item, on this menu is sequential, with repeats as much as required. The items are as follows;

1. Thayir Pachadi - this is a Tam version of raita, prepared with curd, cucumber and at times tomatoes and lady’sfinger as well, tempered with mustard seeds and curry leaves

2. Payasam – Is a milk and rice kheer, with dry fruits, cardamom and is served at the beginning of the meal, signaling sweet beginnings

3. Masal Vadai – is a spiced-up lentil vada, which is a starter equivalent in a plantain meal. It’s crunchy, spicy and is a great nibble in between or before the main course starts

4. Paruppu – is cooked lentils, salted and served with molten ghee, to be mixed with steaming rice at the beginning of the meal. Kids love this usually and go for several servings, consuming it with rice and appalam

5. Sambar – Is part of the main course and served with rice and other vegetable preparations

6. Rasam – is also part of main course and is spicy, tangy with a good dose of tomato and pepper. Often, people love to drink rasam in a tumbler, to cleanse up their palate after a good round of the above items

7.  Cabbage Carrot Poduthuval dry, finely chopped cabbage and carrot prepartation with coconut and other spices,

8. Avial a classic multi-vegetable preparation in a white coconut based gravy base,

9. Urulai roast - no meal is complete without roasted, spicy potatoes

10. Appalam this is a deep fried papad which is a traditionally prepared recipe by Iyers

11. Lemon and Mango pickes

Desert:

Rounding off the meal, with another trademark sweet, Kesari, which is prepared with semolina, ghee and sugar, flavored with cardamom and garnished with cashew and raisins.