Thali #3

Thali #3 recipes. This thali consists of bottle gourd dal, cabbage dry curry, eggplant fry, kachumber salad, boondi raita, rice, roti, and vermicelli kheer. Click on below links for individual recipes

Lau dal– mung dal cooked with bottlegourd

Bandhakopi torkari– cabbage cooked in Bengali style

Begun bhaja – eggplant slices rubbed with salt and turmeric, and shallow fried

Kachumber salad. This is our favourite salad. Chopped cucumber, tomatoes, onion in lemon juice, salt, chilli powder dressing

Boondi raita – whisked yogurt mixed with boondi or tiny fried gram flour balls

Rice and roti

Shavige payasa – or vermicelli pudding in which I have added a bit of soaked and boiled sago