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Aadi Perukku Recipes | Aadi 18 Recipes - Lunch Menu

Aadi perukku recipes | Aadi 18 lunch menu preparation steps easily in a pressure cooker.
Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time30 minutes
Total Time40 minutes
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Indian, South Indian, Tamil nadu
Keyword: aadi 18 lunch menu, Aadi 18 recipes, aadi perukku lunch, aadi perukku lunch menu, aadi perukku recipes, aadi perukku recipes vegetarian, how to make aadi 18 lunch menu
Servings: 3 people
Author: Chitra

Ingredients

For Sweet Pongal & Curd rice

  • 1 cup Raw rice
  • 5 cups Water
  • a pinch Salt
  • Curd
  • Jaggery
  • Cardamom
  • Cashews
  • Cloves, Nutmeg, Edible camphor
  • Milk (optional)

For Lemon rice, Tamarind rice, Coconut rice

  • 1 cup Raw rice
  • 2.5 cups Water
  • Lemon
  • Tamarind paste
  • Coconut
  • Tempering ingredients
  • Salt, Cooking oil

For Urad dal vada, Sundal, Maavilakku

  • ½ cup Urad dal
  • Salt & water as needed
  • ½ cup Rice flour
  • ¼ cup Powdered jaggery
  • 2 tbsp Ghee
  • ½ tsp Cardamom powder
  • ½ cup White chana or brown chana
  • ¼ cup Grated coconut
  • Tempering ingredients
  • Salt & water as needed

Instructions

  • Wash and soak chana in required water overnight if making sundal.
  • Wash and soak urad dal for vada for 30 to 45 minutes.
  • In the mean time, take pressure cooker 1 and add 1 cup of raw rice for pongal and curd rice.
  • Add 5 cups of water to it.
  • Take a small bowl and keep roasted moong dal along with required water.
  • Pressure cook in low flame for one whistle. Set aside.
  • Open the cooker, remove the moong dal bowl and mash the rice.
  • Take a small portion of cooked rice and mix cooked moong dal to it. This is for sweet pongal.
  • Take another pressure cooker 2 and keep 1 cup of raw rice along with 2.5 cups water for variety rice.
  • Pressure cook in low flame for 1 whistle and set aside to release the pressure naturally.
  • Open the cooker and spread the rice in a plate. Cool down.
  • Take pressure cooker 3 and add the soaked chana with required water, salt.
  • Pressure cook in low flame for one whistle.
  • In the mean time, temper for lemon rice, coconut rice and curd rice.
  • Make lemon rice mix and set aside.
  • Add grated coconut to the tempering ingredients, roasted cashews. Lastly add coconut oil and mix well.
  • Coconut rice mix is ready.
  • Make Pulikachal for tamarind rice and set aside.
  • Now take the cooled rice and divide the portions according to the quantity of rice you need.
  • I make less coconut rice and more tamarind rice, lemon rice.
  • Add the tempering to curd rice, curd and salt. Mix well. Curd rice is ready.
  • For sweet pongal, melt jaggery and strain it. Add the mashed rice + moong dal.
  • Mix well and let it boil till thick. Add cardamom powder, roasted cashews, raisins, a pinch of nutmeg powder, edible camphor.
  • Lastly add some ghee and switch off the flame. Temple style Sweet pongal is ready.
  • After making all the rice varieties, grind soaked urad dal along with green chilli, ginger.
  • Add pepper and cumin seeds, curry leaves, hing. Mix well.
  • Heat oil to deep fry and make vada. Set aside.
  • Lastly make sundal and maavilakku.
  • Serve in banana leaf and offer to god.

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