Indian Summer House Muvattapuzha Kerala India Our Menu Page 1 Breakfast Selection Page 2 Lunch & Snacks Selection Page 3 Dinner – Vegetables Page 4 Dinner – Lentils/Pulses/Potato, Rice & Breads Page 5 Dinner – Meat & Seafood Page 6 Dinner – Continental Selection Page 7 Dinner – Desserts Page 8 Beverages Indian Summer House Page 1 Breakfast Menu South Indian Breakfast Continental Breakfast Please order the evening before Only One Indian option available per day All options available every morning Puttu Fruit Plate Steamed rice cake served with fresh coconut Plate of seasonal fruit (watermelon, papaya, milk, honey, banana and pappadum. banana, pineapple, orange, grapes, mango, apple, pomelo, sweet lime, jackfruit, pomegranate, Idli Steamed savoury cakes made with rice and Muesli white dahl flour. Served with vegetable sambar Served with cold milk, honey and yogurt and coconut chutney Masala Dosa Corn Flakes or Wheat Flakes Savoury pancake made with rice and white dahl Served with sugar and cold milk flour with a potato masala filling. Served with coconut chutney Plain Toast or French toast Choice of local white bread or homemade Idiyappam/String Hoppers wholemeal bread.Served with butter, jam, honey, Noodle cakes served with egg roast or kadala vegemite (chickpea) curry Eggs Upama Your choice of fried, boiled, poached, scrambled or Fine corn grain with finely chopped ginger, green omlette (Plain or with onion, chilli and tomato). chilli, carrot and onion. Served with banana and Served on toast. honey Appam Pancake Thick rice flour pancake served with mild Served plain or in Kerala style (with grated vegetable stew coconut, banana, raisins, honey and cinnamon) Poori Porridge Wheat flour bread deep dried to create a “puff” Served plain or in Kerala style (with grated shape and served with potato or vegetable coconut, banana, raisins, honey and cinnamon) masala Variations & Side Dishes: Spicy Beef fry, Mung Beans, Tomato Chutney, Chana Masala, Idli Puttu Masala Dosa Idiyappam Upama Appam Poori Indian Summer House Page 2 Lunch and Snacks Menu South Indian Lunch Meals Tropical Chicken Salad Please order at breakfast Shredded chicken, coconut and mango or Only One Indian option available per day pineapple with a lime vinaigrette Tuna Nicoise Salad Kerala Thali meal Fresh grilled Tuna steaks, boiled potatoes, green Chef’s interpretation of the traditional Sadhya beans, tomato, egg, olives with a vinaigrette consisting of various vegetable dishes served dressing served on a bed of lettuce with Kerala rose rice on a banana leaf with pickles and papadum. Side dish of either Fish Soups Curry, Fish Fry or Chicken Fry at your request. Biryani Tomato Soup A traditional northern dish of fragrant basmati Lentil Soup rice cooked with cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, Seafood Soup ginger and cashew nuts. Served with Vegetable, Chicken Cream Soup Fish or Chicken and papadum, pickles and Vegetable Cream Soup vegetable raita. Drumstick Clear Soup Masala Dosa Savoury pancake made with rice and white dahl Snacks flour with a potato masala filling. Served with coconut chutney and sambar. Sandwiches Chicken, Fish, Egg or Cheese served on fresh homemade wholemeal bread served with Salads mayonnaise and side salad Fresh Garden Salad Katti Roll Tomato, cucumber, capsicum and lettuce dressed Two fresh chapatti rolls with your choice of with balsamic vinegar and olive oil filling: Fish, Chicken or Vegetable. Spicy or Non Spicy as per your request Greek Salad With tomato, black olives, cucumber, green Pakora capsicum, feta cheese and olive oil Vegetable, paneer, chicken, fish or prawns fried in a light pea flour batter served with a mint Prawn Salad and yogurt sauce With boiled potatoes, carrot, green beans, fresh tomato and grilled prawns dressed with Cutlet homemade aoli Vegetable, chicken or fish blended with mild spices and fried. Served with side salad and Watermelon Salad chutney Plate of chunked watermelon, steeped red onion sprinkled with feta and mint and spritzed with Indian Summer Burger lime and olive oil. Beef or Goat patti with cheese, lettuce, tomato, fried egg served open on homemade wholemeal bread or in local sweet bun served with fries Indian Summer House Page 3 Dinner Menu Please order the night before Choose Two dishes from each section Vegetables, Meats and Fish Rice, Chappati, Pappadums, Pickles and Yogurt will be served with your meal along with a ‘small bite’ of the Chef’s selection or you can order a soup. OR Kerala Sadhya (Thali): Our Chef will prepare his interpretation of the Traditional Kerala Feast consisting of various vegetable dishes served with Kerala rose rice on a banana leaf with spicy pickles, crunchy banana chips, crispy pappadums, local bananas and payasam (a sweet milky dessert with vermicelli and cashews). This is usually vegetarian however you can choose to add one of the following side dishes: Spicy Fish or Chicken Fry Vegetables Vegetables Thoran Brinjal Fry Seasonal vegetable prepared with fried coconut, Chopped aubergines fried with mild spices, mustard onion, green chilli and mustard seeds seed and onion. Kichadi Okra Mazukuparathi A typically Malayali dish made of curd and Ladies Fingers (Okra) fried with coconut pieces and cucumber peppercorns Theeyal Patchadi Similar to Sambar, Theeyal is made from a Mixed fruit and vegetable curry mixture of spices consisting of roasted coconut, Moru Curry coriander seeds, dried red chili and fenugreek This is a very popular Kerala dish. Many Keralites Aviyal will be happy to have this curry, some pickle and Very delicious preparation made with mixed rice. Yogurt Curry is made of a complex collection vegetables, curd, coconut, seasoned with coconut of spices and you can add Pineapple or cucumber oil and curry leaves or gourd to the curry. It’s a sweet and sour curry. Olan Pumpkin Erissery Prepared from white gourd, coconut milk and Golden light curry with red beans and roasted ginger seasoned with coconut oil coconut Sambar Salads This is a lentil-based vegetable stew or chowder based on a broth made with tamarind very Red Onion Salad popular in South India and always on the menu Kalaan Fresh vegetable salad is a Keralite dish made of yogurt, coconut and one vegetable like nendran plantain or a tuber Cucumber, Tomato and Red Onion like yam. It is very thick, which distinguishes it from a similar curry known as pulisheri, and Red Onion, Tomato, Yogurt Salad Indian Summer House Page 4 Dinner Menu Con’t Lentils/Pulses/Potato Rice and Breads Cholem Masala Basmati Rice Chick peas cooked with tomato, coriander, onion in coconut milk Local Rose Rice Aloo Gobi Jeera Rice (with cumin seeds) Potato and cauliflower fried in rich tomato Lemon Rice masala Tamil Curd Rice Cuppa (Tapioca) Steamed then seasoned with curry leaves, Continental Fried Rice mustard seeds and grated coconut Appam Koorka a type of South Indian pancake made with Known as a Chinese Potato these little delicacies fermented rice batter are stir fried and make a wonderful side dish Chapati Dahl Makhani unleavened flatbread. It is a common staple food Punjabi dish popular everywhere whole black in India lentils with kidney beans, butter and cream (Peter describes it as Chocolate Dahl) Dosa a fermented crêpe or pancake made from rice Onam Parippu batter and black lentils. It is a staple dish in Moong Dahl (yellow dahl) cooked with fresh South Indian green chilli and coconut Idli Cherupayaru Thoran rice and fermented black lentil batter that is This is a dry mung beean fry with cumin and steamed freshly grated coconut Parotta Ishtu layered flat bread of Kerala made from maida Potatos stewed in a fragrant and spiced coconut flour milk Puri unleavened deep-fried bread Uttapam dosa-like dish made by cooking ingredients in a batter Idiyappam (String Hoppers) Rice noodles steamed Indian Summer House Page 5 Dinner Menu Con’t Meat and Seafood Fish Mollee White sea fish cooked in mild spices with three Meat and Seafood types of coconut milk Chicken Chettinad* Prawn Ularthi Tender chicken pieces cooked in special South Large prawns in dry gravy with onion, chilli and Indian/Chettinad style large coconut pieces Kozi Varytha Curry Meen Varuthathu Boneless chicken fried with a thick South Indian Commonly prepared with Pomfret or Karimeen masala gravy this is the typical Kerala style fried. You must have this before leaving Kerala Nadan Mutton Curry Mutton (Goat) Curry is a special aromatic dish Fish/Prawn Malabari that goes well with almost anything. Mutton Very delicious preparation made with mixed pieces are cooked in a blended mixture of roasted vegetables, curd, coconut, seasoned with coconut red chillies and fresh spices oil and curry leaves Mutton Pepper Fry Meen Curry Tender pieces of goat marinated and slowly fried. This is a spicy red fish curry from the Kottayam This dish is spicy and rich. Ask for the addition of district. Often served with Cuppa (tapioca) in fresh green chilli to set your mouth alive! local Toddy shops. Mutta Roast Meen Manga Curry Boiled eggs are added to a delicious onion and A lightly spiced fish dish with mango. The Mango tomato based curry can be green or ripened. Mutta Curry Chettinad Koonthal Roast Boiled eggs are added to a Chettinad curry This traditional spicy Squid Roast is normally dry however you can do this in a semi gravy form as The Grill well. Like most seafood dishes it is prepared in a Ask the Chef about what is available off the grill. Keralites love making their versions of kebabs, claypot. tandoori, tikka, fish steaks in a variety of styles: Beef Fry continental, tasty or spicy. Buffalo meat dry fried with onion, green chilli The Seafood Platter and coconut pices Assorted fresh market seafood; grilled tiger Beef Curry Nadan prawns or scampi, seer fish steak, whole This is a local beef curry that you will find on pomfret/karimeen (pearl spot) and calamari cooked the roadside stalls in Muvattapuzha.