Enjoy a special vegetarian Thai Pongal Buffet at Cinnamon Grand

Celebrate the Hindu harvest festival popularly known as ‘Thai Pongal’ at Cinnamon Grand’s South Indian restaurant Chutneys on Saturday, 14 January with a vegetarian feast.

Decorated with traditional kolam and other accessories, the Pongal festivities at the restaurant include an array of traditional Pongal dishes and sweetmeat alongside a host of other authentic cuisine prepared by the hotel’s talented chefs led by Indian Chef Krishna. Over 70 items will be prepared for the festive buffet which is priced at Rs. 2,150 nett, open for both lunch (12 noon-2.30 p.m.) and dinner (7 p.m.-12 midnight).

Two soup varieties, three salads, eight appetisers, 12 main dishes, a rice counter with nine variants, dosa counter with 16 dishes, 12 desserts and 14 special Pongal items will be available on the menu.

One can enjoy mungakucharu (drumstick leaves soup) or ulavacharu (horse gram soup) along with salads such as molichapachapyru (moong dal sprouts), kachumber (cucumber tomato onion), thayirvadai (curd vadai), curd rice and more from the soups, salads and appetisers.

Avarakkaimochaimandi (broad beans and butter beans cooked in rice water), sundakkaivathal kuzhambu (dry turkey berry cooked in traditional tangy gravy), manga pachadi (raw mango in sweet and sour gravy), kai karikootu (country vegetables cooked with lentils and coconut paste), urulaipattani kurma (potato and green peas cooked in cashew gravy), vazatandumasiyal (raw banana stem cooked with lentils), kathirikaimalligothsu (brinjal curry) are only a few from the mains that will be available on Saturday.

These dishes can be paired with mushroom and green peas biriyani, ven Pongal (rice and moong dal spicy Pongal rice), kothi meeraannam (coriander leaves flavoured rice), kanchipuram idli, paratha, idiyappam, etc.

The dosa counter will serve kal, ghee, plain, masala, onion, pander and podi dosai; masala, onion, tomato, chilli, podi utthappam and plain utthampam; onion, masala and cashew nut rawa dosai.

A host of dessert such as poosani halwa, boondi laddu, strawberry kesari, coconut burfi, carrot halwa, jalebi will also be a part of the buffet.

The Pongal Counter will feature a mix of traditional sweets and savouries like vellam Pongal (sweet Pongal), kalkandu sadam (rock sugar), chettinad kavuniarisi (black rice pudding), avalinippuputtu (coconut and sugar), kozhukattai (rice flour dumpling) and panang kizhangu (palm sprout snack).

Although the buffet is vegetarian, if anyone would like meat items with their meal, they can order it from the restaurant’s a la carte menu.

For reservations, please call 011 2497372 or 0772640234.

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