This week in the cooking for guests series, I have made a full elaborate meal we cook for Tamil New Year. Tamil New Year is celebrated tomorrow. When we were in India I used to cook elaborate meals for all festivals, after coming here I made the important items for every festival. The reason for this is not laziness, but most festivals come on working days and for lunch, I will be the only person at home. Suresh and the kids will pack lunch for the office and school. Even if it is on a holiday, nobody will eat an elaborate meal. But I wanted to make an elaborate meal for this cooking-for-guests series and today I will be sharing the Tamil New year lunch menu.
I couldn’t get a proper banana leaf, and the one which we got in cover was not so proper when I opened it. It was a bit wide and difficult to cover with my lens.
Also check out my full collection of Tamil New year recipes
For Tamil New Year generally, we make dishes with 6 different tastes sweet, salt, bitter, tangy, spicy, sour, and uvarpu. Generally, neem flower and raw mango are used in cooking. The lunch menu I cooked is what we follow in our family. Generally, the menu doesn’t involve onion or garlic. We do not add onion, garlic, garam masala in our cooking on festival days.
You can make the menu a bit elaborate also, by adding a few extra items. I have mentioned that below.
The menu is:
- PARUPPU PAYASAM
- KOSUMALLI
- CUCUMBER RAITHA
- VAZHAKKAI KALYANA CURRY
- BEANS CURRY
- AVIYAL
- LEMON RICE
- ULUNDU VADAI
- POOSANIKAI KOOTU
- VEPAMPOO RASAM
- NEER MOR
loved the spread… damm good
loevly way of presenting your food jiya very nice 🙂
i have a question dear jeya.. i know its quite weird; what do you do with banana leaf after that? just discard it straight away? or you wash it and then you do use it for further meals? before it turns to yellow and fade 🙂 do reply i just want to know about the culture.. i am so fascinated by presenting food on banana leaf, the chutneys, bhujias look so great..
Happy that u want to know abt the tradition. We throw/discard the leaf after eating. Mainly for hygenic purpose and to give the keaf as food to cows the food was served in banana leaf.but in this mordern times we don't use much but for south indian weddings and festivals we use for sure
extremely beautiful concept dear 🙂
good meal..
Lovely and delicious looking Tamil New Year lunch spread.
Deepa
Lovely Presentation..
This is such a lovely spread,feast to eyes before eaten 🙂
Great effort in presenting all the menu items. Happy tamil new year to you and your family as well.
very nice spread..lovely presentation Jey
such an awesome spread!!! would love to be ur guest… 🙂
Awesome.. You rock! 🙂
Happy tamil new year wishes Jeyashri, fantastic spread, couldnt stop myself drooling here.
Lovely spread…Missing the banana leaf here…Happy New Year
Interesting and informative one,,,awesome recipes!!thanks for share the blog!!i really liked your blog,,Happy new year Jeyashri…lovely collection you have really!!indian restaurant in panama