JAIN MENU
All our food is natural, additives free & freshly prepared. Most items can be prepared VEGAN & JAIN
For special business luncheons or dinners for groups, Please enquire us
Soups and Salad
Sambar — $7.95
Traditional lentil bean soup with Indian spices
Katchumber Salad— $9.95
Chopped vegetable salad mixed in a mildly spiced vinegar & lemon dressing
Appetizers
Idli — $9.95
Steamed lentil and rice mix cakes served with sambar & coconut chutney
Medu vada — $9.95
Fried lentil flour donuts served with coconut chutney & sambar
Sambar Idli / Vada— $11.95
Choice of Idli or vada dunked in a bowlful of sambar & served with coconut chutney
Idli & vada combo — $9.95
1 each of idli (no. 8) & medu vada (no. 9) served with sambar & coconut chutney
Upma — $11.95
Indian polenta (cream of wheat) with onion, chilies, spices & nuts
Pongal Sweet / Spicy — $13.95
Pakoda — $13.95
Mildly spiced, chick pea flour vegetable fritters served with tangy chutney. Choice of cottage cheese (Paneer) or chilly fritters.
Plaintain bhajia — $10.95
Fried green raw banana coated in chick pea flour served with tangy chutney
Masala cashew nuts — $11.95
Madras style fried spicy cashew nuts
Papadam — $2.95
Delicately spiced thin lentil wafers served with tangy chutney
Chaat Special
Street food from various parts of India
Bhel Poori — $9.95
Bombay style mix of puffed rice, crispy sev, rice flour crisps, peanuts, onions, tomatoes, tangy & spicy chutney topped with cilantro
Chhole chaat — $13.95
Boiled chick peas tossed with onions, potatoes, tangy chutney, spices & topped with yogurt & crispy sev
Kachori — $9.95
Gujarati snack made of different pea fritters served with tangy chutney
Dahi Vada — $9.95
Gujarati style fried lentil donuts soaked iin spiced yogurt & topped with cilantro chutney
Papri chaat — $9.95
Crisp flat breads topped with yogurt, potatoes, onions, tangy & spicy chutney topped with crispy sev & cilantro
Utthappam
Rice and lentil pancakes served with sambar & coconut chutney
Plain utthappam — $12.95
Tomato & pepper utthapam — $14.95
Pepper & peas utthapam — $14.95
Butter / Ghee utthapam — $13.95
Tomato / Peas / Chilli utthapam — $14.95
Tomato & peas utthapam — $14.95
Chilli & tomato utthapam — $14.95
Pepper utthapam — $14.95
Coconut utthapam — $16.95
Cheese utthapam — $15.95
Dosai
Rice & lentil crepes served with sambar, coconut & tomato chutney. Masala is made of mildly spiced potatoes & peas.
Sada(Plain) Dosai — $12.95
Butter Sada Dosai — $13.45
Podi Sada Dosai — $12.95
Paper Sada Dosai — $14.95
Gigantic size crepe
Cheese sada Dosai — $14.95
Cone Dosai — $12.95
Ghee sada Dosai — $12.95
Rava Dosai
Cream of wheat and rice crepes
Sada(Plain) Rava Dosai — $13.95
Chilli Sada Rava Dosai — $14.95
Cheese Sada Rava Dosai — $14.95
Podi Sada Rava Dosai — $14.95
Coconut Sada Rava Dosai — $15.95
Sabzi
Served with basmati rice
Channa Saag — $17.95
Chick peas and spinach cooked with cream & spices
Channa masala — $17.95
Chick peas cooked with tomatoes & spices
Bhindi masala — $17.95
Okra sauteed with onions, tomatoes & spices
Whole mung — $16.95
Gujarati style green lentils cooked with tomatoes, onions & spices
Gobi Masala — $17.95
Cauliflower cooked with tomatoes & spices
Chilli Paneer — $18.95
Fresh homemade cottage cheese cooked in cream, green chillies & hot spices
Palak Paneer — $17.95
Fresh homemade cubed cottage cheese & spinach cooked in cream & spices
Mutter Paneer — $17.95
Fresh homemade cubed cottage cheese & green peas cooked in cream with mild spices
Shahi Paneer — $18.95
Fresh homemade cubed cottage cheese cooked in creamy tomato & chilli gravy
Rice
Tamarind / lemon rice — $14.95
Favorites from South India
Kashmiri pulav — $16.95
Basmati rice cooked with raisins, cashews & vegetables served with Yogurt
Pongal Special — $21.95
Special rice and lentil dish, both sweet & spicy with medu vada (1 pc) & served with sambar, coconut chutney and Yogurt
Bread
Whole Wheat Indian style breads (Non-dairy)
Chappati (1 pc) — $2.95
Flat bread topped with oil
Lachha paratha — $5.95
Multi layered & flaky bread
Poori (2pcs) — $7.95
Deep fried puffed bread
Phulka (Roti) (1pc) — $2.95
Oil free flat thin bread
Cheese / Peas paratha — $9.95
Bread stuffed with cheese or peas served with yogurt & pickle
Lunch Thali's
Business Luncheon Specials (Monday - Friday) 12pm - 3pm
Chef's Special Thali — $10.95
Idli (1), medu vada (1), dosai (choice of a dosai or utthapam) with sambar, coconut chutney, gulab jamun.
Chef's Special Thali / with Rava Masala — $11.95
Idli (1), medu vada (1), dosai (choice of a dosai or utthapam) with sambar, coconut chutney, gulab jamun.
Thali / Combination platter
Mysore Special Thali — $19.95
Idli, vada, mini onion utthappam, mini masala dosai, coconut chutney, sambar.
Daily Specials
Mini idli — $13.95
Mini steamed lentil and rice mix cakes served with sambar and coconut chutney
Chana bhatura — $17.95
Large puffed bread made of all-purpose flour served with chick peas and spicy curry
Fried idli — $15.95
Steamed and fried lentil and rice mix cakes served with sambar and coconut chutney
Extra bhatura — $7.95
Large puffed bread made of all-purpose flour served with chick peas and spicy curry
Accompaniments
Plain rice — $4.95
Sambar — $2.95
Mango chutney / pickle / ghee — $1.95
Chutney - coconut/ dosa podi — $1.25
Desserts
Malai Kulfi — $10.95
Indian ice cream prepared with sweetened milk & cream
Chocolate Dosai — $9.95
Rice & lentil crepe covered with delicious thick chocolate
Kheer — $9.95
Rich rice pudding flavored with cardamon
Ras malai — $9.95
Cooked cottage cheese soaked in sweetened milk with nuts
Gulab jamun w/ ice cream — $8.95
Special fried cottage cheese balls in ghee & dunked in sugar syrup
Carrot halwa w/ ice cream — $9.95
Sweet dessert made of carrots, milk, ghee, sugar & cardamon
Pistachio kulfi — $11.95
Indian ice cream prepared with sweetened milk & pistachios
Mango kulfi — $10.95
Indian ice cream prepared with sweetened milk & mango
Vegan ice cream — $8.95
Choice of chocolate, mango, caramel & vanila flavors
Shrikhand — $9.95
Creamy Indian pudding made of yogurt, pistachio, cardamon & saffron
Gulab jamun — $7.95
Special fried cottage cheese balls in ghee & dunked in sugar syrup
Carrot halwa — $8.95
Sweet dessert made of carrots, milk, ghee, sugar & cardamon
Badam halwa — $11.95
Sweet rich dessert made of almonds, milk, ghee, sugar & saffron
Puran poli — $11.95
Delicious sweet at wheat bread lled with mashed Bengal gram dal,
jaggery, cardamon, ghee & saffron
Beverages
Soda — $2.95
Coke/ Diet Coke/ Coke Zero/ Pepsi/ Sprite/ Ginger Ale/ Club Soda
Sparkling water — $3.95
Moru — $5.95
Thin yogurt shake (butter milk) with onions & spices
Mango / Strawberry/ Rose Lassi — $6.95
Yogurt shake blended with mangoes
Badam milk — $7.95
Creamy almond milk with almond slivers
Madras coffee — $4.95
Indian traditional filtered coffee boiled with milk
Homemade Lemonade — $5.95
Green Tea — $3.95
Chamomile Tea — $3.95
Ice Tea — $3.95
Mineral water — $2.95
Juice — $5.95
Alphonso Mango juice
Lassi — $5.95
Sweet/ salty / spicy yogurt shake
Mango milk shake — $6.95
Milk blended with mangoes
Coffee — $3.95
Masala tea — $3.95
Indian tea leaves boiled with milk & herbs
Tea — $3.95
Decaf Tea — $3.95
Fresh Coconut Water — $9.95
Bar
RED WINE BY THE BOTTLE (750 ML)
Galil Cabernet
Tishbi Cabernet
Gilgal Merlot
Tishbi Merlot
Yarden Merlot
Tishbi Pinot Noir
Hermon Red
Galil Syrah
Gilgal Syrah
Yarden Syrah
Tishbi Shiraz
WHITE WINE BY THE BOTTLE (750 ML)
Gilgal Chardonay
Tishbi Chardonay
Yarden Chardonay
Yarden Muscat
Tishbi Pinot Grigio
Gilgal Riesling
Tishbi Sauvignon Blanc
Yarden Sauvignon Blanc
Hermon White
HOUSE WINE: Red/White by the glass — $12.95
BEER
12 oz BOTTLE ( NO ALCOHOL) — $7.95
12 oz BOTTLE (ALCOHOL) — $7.95
Corona
Becks
Estrella Galicia
22 oz BOTTLE (Flying Horse) — $11.95
Tajmahal
Amstel Light
Becks
Budweiser
Corona
Heineken
Kingfisher
Stella
Pongal Restaurant
Specializes in Vegetarian food. Freshly prepared with the best ingredients, for those who live to eat not eat to live.
Our Location
103 Lexington Ave,
New York, NY 10016
212-696-9458
Opening Hours
Monday - Sunday
12:00 PM - 10:30 PM