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South Indian Variety Rice Lunch Menu Ideas-Easy Variety Rice Lunch-South Indian Mixed Rice Recipes

February 24, 2014 by PadhuSankar 8 Comments

Are you looking for some ideas for quick/easy lunch time meals!! Bored of preparing the Traditional South Indian Meals or North Indian Lunch, then find below delicious, quick South Indian Variety Rice/Mixed Rice Lunch Ideas/Menu.

#1.Quick and Easy Lunch Menu

Coconut Rice (thengai sadam)

Lemon Rice  (Elumichai sadam)

Curd Rice (seasoned curd rice)

Potato Curry 

Appalam/pappadam

 

South Indian Variety Rice
Thengai sadam-Elumichai sadam-thayir sadam-appalam-urulaikizhangu fry
#2.A Perfect, Simple and Healthy Lunch!!!
 
Filling and delicious Sambar Sadam with mixed Vegetables, Seasoned Curd rice with vegetables, a vegetable curry and onion raita/pachadi.

Sambar Sadam 

Tindora Sabji (Kovakkai curry)

Curd Rice 

Onion Pachadi

Homemade Potato Chips 

Tomato Thokku 

Sambar Sadam

 

#3. Delicious and Quick Lunch for a busy day. Ready in 15-20 minutes!!!

Tomato Rice or Tomato Pulao

Thayir Sadam with fruits

Cucumber Raita

Potato Chips

Tomato Rice-thakkali sadam

 

#4.Quick Lunch for a Hectic day!!

 

Andhra Pulihora or Tamil Nadu Puliyodharai, Tamarind Rice has a special place. The paste or pulikachal can be prepared even a few days earlier. It can be stored in the refrigerator for a week. You can mix it with rice as and when you need.

Puliyodharai (Tamil Special)

Andhra Pulihora 

Vadam as side dish

Puliyodharai (Tamil style)
#5.Karuveppilai-Sadam (Healthy and delicious)

karuveppilai sadam

 

#6 Kovil Kadamba Sadam

Delicious and Wholesome – Perfect even during Festivals as it has no onion and no garlic.

Suggested Side Dish – Tomato Cucumber Pachadi or any Pachadi-Appalam/Pappads/Vadam


Kovil Kadamba sadam

 

Hope you all enjoyed my post on Quick and Easy Variety Rice Lunch Menu. There are so many one pot meals like coriander rice, garlic rice, mint pulao etc, I just picked up the most popular South Indian Variety Rice alone.

 

Don’t miss out more than 50 collections of One Pot Meals or Rice Recipes.

 

For more Lunch Menu Ideas, check out my Lunch Menu Ideas Page.

 

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  1. Sandhya Khattri

    February 24, 2014 at 4:18 pm

    Lunch ideas are very helpful, like the Andhra Pulihora most.

    Reply
  2. Arjunan Akilandeswari

    February 25, 2014 at 3:33 am

    Great collection of rices varieties

    Reply
  3. GEETHA ACHAL

    February 25, 2014 at 2:27 pm

    wow…Nice way of arranging them…Clicks looking so tempting

    Reply
  4. Snramanath Shastry

    February 25, 2014 at 6:33 pm

    your lunch ideas are superb, i liked all the combinations

    Reply
  5. Vanita Amin

    October 8, 2014 at 4:18 am

    Awesum & Nice presentation. Love the Rice Varieties. Thks a lot.

    Reply
  6. Muralidar S. Ram

    July 15, 2016 at 7:24 am

    Paakkavey thanni ooruthu! I've developed bent in cooking only recently. Was looking for someone who could guide me. Seems like the search has now ended. Thank you very much. You're going to find me here very often. Thank you again!

    Reply
  7. umarani kamalajayam

    September 28, 2016 at 5:03 am

    Am your all time fan. Got good name in both my family members because of your receipes thanks a lot……

    Reply
  8. Unknown

    July 19, 2018 at 7:40 am

    Very tasty. Especially kovil kadamba sadam good for kids who doesn't eat veg and pulses separately

    Reply

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