kitchen tips and others

Tips for monthly provisions required for 2 people for a month is generally 

 Staples :

1. Sugar – 3 Kg
2. Rice – 10 Kg
3. Basmati Rice - 1 Kg
4. Boiled rice – 2 Kg ( For making dosa/idly batter)
5. Atta – 3 Kgs
6. Table Salt – 1 Kg
7. Sugar – 3 Kg
8. Jaggery – ½ Kg
9. Rock salt – 1 Kg

Oil

1. Refined oil – 2 Kg
2. Gingeley Oil – ½ Kg
3. Coconut Oil – 200 Gms
4. Ghee – 500 Gms

Dals

1. Tuar dal – 2 Kg
2. Urad dal – 1 Kg
3. Moong dal – 1 Kg
4. Chana dal – ½ Kg
5. Ground nut – ½ Kg
6. Fried gram – ½ Kg
7. 
   

Spices

1. Dry Chillies - 100 Gm
2. Chilly powder – 100 Gm
3. Turmeric powder- 100 Gm
4. Dhaniya – 200 Gm
5. Mustard – 200 Gm
6. Methi  - 100 Gm
7. Jeera – 100 Gm
8. Pepper – 100 Gm
9. Asafoetida – 1 small packet
10. Garam masala – 100 Gm
11. Kitchen King – 100 Gm
12. Pepper dhaniya powder -100 Gm
13. Tea Masala Powder – 100 Gm

Others

1. Rice flour – 1 Kg
2. Besan – ½ Kg
3. Fried gram flour – ½ Kg
4. Papad – 1 packet of 50
5. Tea leaves – 500 Gm
6. Coffee powder – 500 Gm
7. Semiya – 250 Gms
8. Rava – 500 Gms
9. Rava idly mix – 200 Gms
10. Ready made Rice Sevai – 200 Gms
11. Cashew – 200 Gm
12. Raisins – 100 Gm

Typically kalyana sapadu is done on ausipicous days, when inviting son in law home, some festivals, etc

In following sequence (Served on a banana leaf)

• 1/4 banana and sugar
• Rice
• Bit of Paruppu 
• Ghee

• Mor Kozhambu with vegetables
• Mysore Rasam
• Vegetables Sambar

• Aloo roast / Poriyal - Khara Curry
• Vegetable with coconut
• Beans Paruppu Usuli
• White Pumpkin Kootu 
• Carrot Kosmalli

• Medu Vada
• Chips 
• Papadam 

• Lemon rice / coconut rice / Puliyogare
• Sakkarai Pongal - Solid
• Payasam – Milk / Semiya / Akkaravarsal

• Dry Sweet  - Mysore Pak / Laddoo / Barfi
• Curd rice with pickle
• Buttermilk

Given below are the special types of foods made on festivals-  Serve kalyana sapadu on these special occastions

January - Pongal

Sweet pongal

Khara pongal

April - Tamil new year day

Manga pachudi

Aug - Avani Attam

Appam, Idly,

Aug / Sept - Janmashtami

Various types of bakshanam – Uppu seedai, Vellai seedai, Thattai

Aug / Sept - Vinayaka Chaturti

Kozhakatta -Sweet and Khram

Sept / Oct - Navaratri

Daily one sundal – 

1. Kadalai Paruppu
2. Payattam paruppu
3. Karamani
4. Kottu Kadalai
5. Groundnut
6. Mocha kotta
7. Kunukku
8. Kadala paruppu

Saraswati Puja – Kottu Kadalai

Friday - Puttu

Oct / Nov Dipavali

Morning – Dipavali Marundu, Idly,  Bajji, Kesari and 

Bakshanam – Mixture and sweet