South Indian Thali

Name: South Indian Thali
Total time: 5400 s
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 4 boiled potatoes; 4-5 onions sliced; 5 green chillies; 8-10 curry leaves; 3 tbsp oil; 1 tsp rai; 1 tsp urad dal; 1 tsp jira; 1/2 tsp hing; 1/2 tsp haldi; Salt; 2 tsp coriander; 1/2 lemon; Puri dough as required; 3 tsp oil; 1 tsp Rai; 1 tsp chanadal; 1 tsp jira; 1/2 tsp methi; 1/2 tsp hing; 2 red chillies; 1 bowl tamarind pulp water; 10-12 onion shallots; 1 tomato; 2 drumsticks; Small piece pumpkin; 6-8 garlic cloves chopped; Salt; 1 tsp haldi; 1 tsp homemade curry powder

Bina Anjaria @bina_anjaria_123

A perfect combo of tastes and flavours from South India.
Puri-bhaji, sambhar, rasam, rice and appadam.
Has many ingredients, but most of them are repitative.
But this is a very easy, tasty thali.

Bina Anjaria @bina_anjaria_123

A perfect combo of tastes and flavours from South India.
Puri-bhaji, sambhar, rasam, rice and appadam.
Has many ingredients, but most of them are repitative.
But this is a very easy, tasty thali.

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Ingredients

1hour 30 minutes

4 servings

Puri-Bhaji
4boiled potatoes
4-5onions sliced
5green chillies
8-10curry leaves
3 tbspoil
1 tsprai
1 tspurad dal
1 tspjira
1/2 tsphing
1/2 tsphaldi
Salt
2 tspcoriander
1/2lemon
Puri dough as required
For Sambhar :
3 tspoil
1 tspRai
1 tspchanadal
1 tspjira
1/2 tspmethi
1/2 tsphing
2red chillies
1 bowltamarind pulp water
10-12onion shallots
1tomato
2drumsticks
Small piece pumpkin
6-8garlic cloves chopped
Salt
1 tsphaldi
1 tsphomemade curry powder
1 tbspsambhar madala
1 tspchilli powder
15-20curry leaves
2 tspcoriander
2 bowlsboiled tur dal
For Rasam:
2 tspoil
1 tsprai
1ysp urad dal
1 tspjira
2red chillies
10-12curry leaves
1/2 tsphing
6-8garlic cloves chopped
1 bowltamarind pulp water
1 bowlboiled tur dal
1/2 tsphaldi
1/2 tsphomemade curry powder
1/2 tspchilli powder
1/2 tsppepper powder
Salt
2 tspcoriander

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Steps

1hour 30 minutes

1

First, keep tur dal for boiling in cooker. Knead the puri dough and rest for 30 minutes. Wash 1 cup rice and soak for a while.Also ready the ingredients for bhaji, sambhar and rasam.
2

FOR SAMBHAR:
Boil drumsticks and pumpkin. In a tope take oil, add rai, chanadal, jira, methi seeds, red chillies, hing
3

Peel the onion shallots
4

Add in onion shallots, tomato and salt.
5

Add in tamarind pulp water and dry masalas and bring to a boil.
6

Add in boiled tur dal and boiled drumsticks and pumpkin (along with the veg. boiled water). Mix well and boil for 8-10 minutes. Lastly, add some coriander.
7

FOR RASAM:
In oil add rai, urad dal, jira, red chillies, hing and do the tempering.
8

Add in curry leaves. Add in tomato and tamarind pulp water.
9

Bring to a boil. Add in the dry masalas, salt and curry powder.
10

Boil for 8-10 minutes. Tasty appetizing Rasam is ready. Delicious Sambhar also ready
11

FOR PURI-BHAJI:
Cut onions into slices and boil and mash the potatoes roughly with hand. In a kadhai, take oil, add rai and urad dal.
12

Add jira, hing, slit green chillies and hing.
13

Add in sliced onions, salt and haldi
14

When onions are just transparent (do not over cook) add in 2 tsp coriander and mix,. Also add in the roughly mashed potatoes. Mix well.
15

After 2 minutes add 1/2 cup water. Cover and cook for 5 minutes. When done, switch off gas and add lemon juice.
16

Mix and a Perfect potato-onion bhaji is ready. Roll out puris. Cook the rice.
17

Deep fry in hot oil. Also fry Appadams. Also serve curd and pickle.
18

Serve hot.
Enjoy Tasty South Indian Thali Lunch with a Smile on every Family member's face.
Happy Cooking!!
(You can also make rava kesari Or semiya payasam for sweet if desired. I have not made sweets)