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Hanuman’s Big Meal!I was watching the movie ‘Bajrangbali’ where Hanuman is shown eating all the food in Seetha’s kitchen and asking for more. Having just finished showing Ganesha enjoying a typical Tamil style meal, I realize…

Hanuman’s Big Meal!

I was watching the movie ‘Bajrangbali’ where Hanuman is shown eating all the food in Seetha’s kitchen and asking for more. Having just finished showing Ganesha enjoying a typical Tamil style meal, I realized that I had stumbled onto something much bigger. 

Hence, I decided to do a piece showing Hanuman enjoying various popular North Indian vegetarian cuisines. Of course, this is only a small island in the vast sea of the Indian Food. 

The items on the plate in clockwise order from the 1 'o’ clock position - Bhel Poori, Banana, Naan, Vegetable Pulao and Methi Paratha.

The items in the first circle around the plate in clockwise order are - Salted Lassi (the pot to Hanuman’s left), Daal/Lentil Soup (blue bowl), Aloo Palak/Potato-Spinach (orange bowl), Gobi Masala/Cauliflower (purple bowl), Chole/Chickpeas (green bowl), Rajma/Kidney Beans (yellow bowl), Aloo Bhaji/Fried Potatoes (silver bowl), Aloo Bhindi Masala / Potato-Okra (teal bowl), Kadai Paneer (grey bowl)

The items in the outermost circle around the plate in clockwise order - Raita (violet bowl), Maa Laddoo (light red bowl), Jalebi (yellow bowl), Chocolate Barfi (brown bowl), Kheer (maroon bowl) and Carrot Halwa (purple bowl).

Well, do you feel hungry now? I sure do!

tags: illustration, indianfood, hanuman, delicious, masala, spiceroute, northindianfood, food
Sunday 12.07.14
Posted by Karthik Nagarajan
 
Traditional Tamilian meals (that’s from South India) are always served on a banana leaf. These are commonly found in weddings, festivals and music concerts. As a child, I had always seen that they brought the food out to you in a particular or…

Traditional Tamilian meals (that’s from South India) are always served on a banana leaf. These are commonly found in weddings, festivals and music concerts. 

As a child, I had always seen that they brought the food out to you in a particular order and you weren’t supposed to start eating until they had finished serving all of the components. And I always wondered if there was any real logic to it. 

After some reading, I discovered that there was! So here’s my take on the various parts of the traditional Tamilian meal.

Here they are from the right in clockwise order: Pot of water, Appalam, Fruit (bananas for this instance), salt, pickle, poriyal (roasted), aviyal (mashed), steamed idlis (with podi), varuval (fried), vadai (deep fried), Jalebi & Payasam (sweets), Paruppu (dal), Sambar, Rasam, Curd and a mountain of rice!

In Indian mythology, only a few characters are strongly associated with food - Nala (from Nala-Damayanti) for being an expert cook, Bheema (from the Mahabharat) & Kumbhakarna (from Ramayana) for their voracious appetite and our very own Ganesha for his love of food. In the end, Ganesha received the invitation to dine at my meal illustration :-)

tags: illustration, ganesha, food, foodlovers, southindianfood, indianfood
Saturday 08.30.14
Posted by Karthik Nagarajan
 

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