South Indian Chow

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A warming, zesty soup infused with tamarind, cumin, pepper, coriander, & ginger, rasam is an essential course of every South Indian meal. This healing coulis is revered for kindling Agni, our inner digestive fire.

Ingredients: Tomato, ginger, turmeric, green chilies, cumin, coriander, fenugreek, red chilies, asafoetida, lemon, and seasoned with mustard seeds, hibiscus petals, curry leaves and ghee. 

Vegetarian. Gluten-Free. Vegan: made with vegan ghee

Sundal is a protein-packed salad or snack, traditionally made with sprouted lentils or chickpeas and seasonal ingredients.  As popcorn is to movies, sundals are to beaches!

Ingredients: Sprouted black gram lentils, chickpeas, sprouted green mung beans, raw mangoes, cucumbers, freshly grated coconut, lemon, mustard seeds, garnished with spices (pepper, black gram lentils, chickpea lentils, desiccated coconut, white sesame,  red chilies, cilantro and curry leaves.

Vegan. Gluten-Free. 

Golden Milk, or turmeric milk, is an ancient healing Ayurvedic (a holistic system of medicine that began in India more than 3,000 years ago) remedy. This soothing harmony of turmeric, cardamom, ginger, and pepper is brewed in Indian homes to treat common respiratory and digestive ailments.

Ingredients: Oat milk infused with turmeric, cardamom, ginger, and pepper and sweetened with jaggery  (unrefined cane sugar) 

Vegan. Gluten-Free. 

Vadais are fried lentil fritters often garnished with local vegetables and seasoned with ginger, fennel, curry and cilantro leaves. They are paired with spiced vegetable or herb chutneys—in this case, a sesame-spiced zucchini-cilantro chutney. 

Chutney Ingredients - zucchini, cilantro, ginger, tamarind, coconut, black & white sesame, chickpea and black gram lentils, asafoetida, red chilies

Vegan. Gluten-Free. 

No South Indian feast would be complete without a simply seasoned fragrant rice paired with a yogurt based sauce and a crunchy Pappadam (a rice & lentil crisp). Coconut rice is a South Indian staple and makes for a complete meal when paired with the vitamin C, iron rich Amalaki (Indian Gooseberry) Pacchadi (yogurt sauce). Amalaki is revered in Ayurveda (Indian medicine) for its numerous medicinal benefits and is now globally recognized as a superfood.

Coconut Red Rice Ingredients: Red rice, fresh grated coconut, delicate seasoning of roasted cashews, chickpea lentils, mustard seeds, curry leaves and red chilies.

Pulingari Ingredients: squashes (acorn, yellow, white pumpkin) plantain, carrots, mango, tamarind, turmeric, split pea lentils, brown rice, fenugreek, red chilies, mustard seeds, sesame oil, curry leaves, and asafoetida (a common Indian spice extracted from ferula, an herb in the celery family)

Amalaki Pacchadi Ingredients:  Amalaki, desiccated coconut, pepper, cumin, almond milk yogurt, salt & lemon juice

Pappadam Ingredients: Black gram lentils, rice, pepper and cumin

Payasams are wholesome dessert puddings traditionally made with rice, wheat, or millet that are slow-cooked for hours in cow’s milk and sweetened with raw sugar or jaggery. They are infused with aromatic spices like cardamom and nutmeg and garnished with roasted nuts and raisins. With Prana Kitchens' Chai Masala and saffron, this sweet and creamy coconut rice pudding is a grand finale to any feast menu. 

Ingredients: Rice, coconut, jaggery, cardamom, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and pepper. Garnished with saffron strands and nuts roasted in clarified vegan butter.

Vegan. Gluten-Free.