Here is a list of Tamil new year recipes |Tamil puthandu special recipes | Tamil Varusha pirappu recipes for pooja, sweets recipes and lunch menu. On Tamil new year day, we prepare full meals / Vazhai ilai virundhu by offering mango pachadi, arisi paruppu payasam, neer mor and panakam to God. Apart from this, we make no onion no garlic lunch menu by making sambar, thayir pachadi with gooseberry or carrot or lady’s finger, kootu or poriyal, urad dal vada with pepper.
This Tamil new year lunch menu is more like amavasya food / no moon day lunch. Some people also make 5 rice varieties like lemon rice, tamarind rice, coconut rice, sweet pongal and curd rice instead of making full meals. People call it as tamil new year thaligai. But usually I make Lady’s finger sambar, Gooseberry or carrot thayir pachadi, raw mango pachadi, raw banana poriyal or broad beans poriyal, rice and moong dal payasam, urad dal vada. I have given the links for all these recipes below. I have also shared the links for other options. Do check it out and try the puthandu special menu according to your convenience and family practice.
Also check out my post on How to celebrate Tamil New Year at home !
Tamil New Year Recipes
- Rice
- Vendakkai sambar
- Paruppu for rice
- Mango pachadi
- Carrot thayir pachadi
- Raw banana poriyal
- Mixed vegetable Kootu
- Arisi Paruppu payasam/ rice, moong dal kheer
- Pepper vada using mixie
- Instant mango pickle
- Panakam & Neer mor ( If keeping panchangam)
- Appalam, Mor milagai
Please check THIS POST on how to prepare this menu easily
OR
Variety Rice Recipes + Vada + Payasam
Please watch the video below on how to cook 5 rice varieties easily
Check out my Full meals lunch menu post to view the order of arranging the dishes in banana leaf.
Alternate options for Tamil new year lunch menu
KUZHAMBU RECIPES
(Skip onions and make it for festival day to offer God)
- Arachuvitta sambar – Brahmin’s style
- Mango Sambar
- Broad beans sambar
- Pumpkin Sambar
- cluster beans sambar
- Morkuzhambu
- 7 vegetables sambar
KOOTU VARIETIES
- Mixed vegetable kootu OR Avial without onion
- Chow chow kootu
- Vazhaipoo kootu
- Cluster beans kootu / Kothavarangai kootu
- Carrot kootu
- Cabbage kootu
- Beetroot kootu
PORIYAL VARIETIES
- Mixed vegetable poriyal
- Sweet potato poriyal
- Cluster beans/Kothavarangai poriyal
- Raw banana curry/Vazhakkai poriyal
- Raw banana curry – Chettinad style
- Vazhaipoo poriyal
- Raw banana poriyal
- Easy vendakkai poriyal/Okra stir fry
- Yam poriyal
- Lady’s finger poriyal with tomato
PACHADI VARIETIES
PAYASAM VARIETIES
Check out my 18 Payasam Varieties for full collection.
- Aval payasam
- Thengai payasam
- Paruppu payasam
- Rice payasam
- Ada Pradhaman
- Palada Payasam
- Vermicelli payasam
OTHER SWEETS
- Sweet pongal / sakkarai pongal in cooker
- Obbattu/Puran poli
- 15 Easy Sweets collection
- 18 Payasam Varieties
KESARI RECIPES
- Rava Kesari Recipe
- Kesaribath – Karnataka style
- Milk kesari/Paal kesari recipe
- Semiya/Vermicelli kesari
- Microwave rava kesari
- 12 Kesari varieties
OTHER LUNCH MENU RECIPES
All the above recipe links are for variations. You can try any based on the availability of ingredients. Its not a hard and fast rule to make a full meals and offer GOD. Some people celebrate Tamil new year just by offering a payasam and vada. I saw many Tamil new year lunch menu with onion, garlic as well. Finally its our family’s practice.
If you are a bachelor and wish to do the pooja, you can simply soak Poha/Aval in milk adding sugar, cardamom and offer to God. GOD will accept everything and anything if done whole heartedly. The celebration procedure I have shared here is based on my family practice. It may vary as per your tradition and custom. So beginners, please consult the elders of your family and do the pooja and lunch recipes.
Wish you all a very happy and prosperous Tamil New Year !!
அனைவருக்கும் இனிய தமிழ் புத்தாண்டு நல் வாழ்த்துக்கள் !!!
