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14 Vegetarian Sindhi Thali meals

Alka Keswani — Sat, 29 Jan 2022 08:30:44 +0000

When I started sharing some Sindhi Thali spreads on Instagram (Sindhirasoiofficial) and Facebook page (Sindhirasoi.com), I started receiving many requests to share the recipes of each dish presented in the Thali. So I thought to share the details of all the Thali meals in a blog post for easy reference! Most of these meals were cooked across the year, though some are from the distant past. I haven’t meticulously planned the menus of these Thalis and the dishes were cooked depending on the seasons and availability of the ingredients during the lockdown, in the past year or so. Hence some dishes appear repeatedly in the Thali meals, shared below. Looking at the popularity of these Thali meals, I am now thinking of making well planned Sindhi Thali meals to share with you all. For now, do check some of these Sindhi Thali spreads and do let me know which of these appeals to you the most! Also do share with me your Sindhi Thali meal ideas. I will try to cook the combination in my kitchen and share it here! BTW my blog Sindhirasoi.com is now 14 years old! Yes, this blog was created on 29th January 2008 and to celebrate the 14 years of learning, un learning, of receiving awards, rewards, accolades and recognition, love and adulation, allow me to celebrate it by sharing 14 Vegetarian Sindhi Thali meals with you all! So here are some Sindhi Thali Combos! Sindhi Thali #1 Chithyal Gogrun (Mashed Turnips flavored with green garlic) Juar Jo Dhodho (Patted Jowar roti) Khichdi (Rice and Mung dal chilka cooked till soft) Gogrun Ji Khatain (Turnips Pickle) Curds and Salad Sindhi Thali #2 Beeh Palak (Lotus stem cooked with Spinach) Patri Khichn~i (Rice and Mung dal chilka cooked till porridge like) Basar Ji Khatain (Onion Pickle) Sindhi Thali#3 Palak Paneer Bhugha Chanvar (Rice cooked with caramelized onions and Khada masala) Gogrun Ji Khatain (Zero Oil Turnip pickle) Salad, Roti, Kheecho (Khichiya papad) Matho (Raita). I have made Bathua Raita and though it is not a traditional Sindhi dish but it is made in Sindhi style i.e boiled bathua leaves, chopped and added to beaten curds and flavored with finely chopped chillies and ginger. This is how we (The Sindhis) make the raita with bottle gourd/Drumstick flowers etc. Sindhi Thali #4 Masoor Dal made in Sindhi Style (Whole masoor dal added to caramelised onions and cooked with tomatoes, chillies, ginger, salt, turmeric and water till done and finished with a tadka of garlic, curry leaves and cumin seeds) Seyal Bhaji (Mix Vegetable curry) Patate Ja pakora (Potato fritters) Beeh Ji Tikki (Lotus stem Tikki) Salad, Raita (Bathua Raita), Papad and Roti Sindhi Thali #5 Beeh patata ( lotus stem and potato curry), Dal Suji jo seero (Sooji halwa) Beeh patate ji tikki (Mashed potato and Lotus stem tikki) Bheendi kadhukash (grated mango pickle) Kachri (Flower shaped fryum made from rice flour), Sindhi papad Vangi (cucumber) Rice Phulko (roti) Sindhi Thali #6 Beeh Patata (lotus stem and potatoes curry) Bhugha Chanvar with peas and Meha (Apple gourds) Sanna Pakora (Double fried, crunchy fritters) Dyamun/J^ammu (Gulab Jamun) Boondi Raita Roti, Papad, Salad, Fryums Sindhi Thali #7 Jhang Pulao (Mix vegetable Pulao) Soya (Nutrela) Daag^ mein (Nutrela cooked in Sindhi style gravy) Roti, Cucumber, Fryums and Boondi Raita Sindhi Thali #8 Boiled rice Dal (mix of mung dal and chanadal) cooked with tomatoes and chillies and tempered with ghee, cumin, hing and ginger) Matho (Doodhi i.e Bottle gourd raita) Kheecha (khichiya papad), papad Taryal Patata (Potato roundels, shallow fried and tossed with turmeric, salt, chilli powder and coriander powder) Roti Alu tikki Karela Aur Ji Ras mein (fried karela cooked in a soupy gravy of tempered mustard, coriander powder and turmeric, flavored with pounded black pepper) Kesar flavored suji halwa Sindhi Thali #9 Bhuga Chanvar ( Rice cooked with caramelized onions) Saibhaji (Sindhi style Spinach sabzi) Taye waara patata and vaangan (Tawa/pan fried potatoes and brinjal) Boiled and roasted Cholia ( Sawa phota/ Hara bhara) spiced with turmeric, coriander powder, chilli powder and amchoor. Roti, salad, curds and fryums Sindhi Thali #10 Dal Chanvar (Dal and Rice) Daas Karela ( Dhaage waale karele) Sanna Pakoda ( Double fried fritters) Macrolyun Phoolpatasha ( A traditional Sindhi dish made by cooking Elbow pasta and Makhana in onion tomato gravy) Gajrun jo seero (Gaajar Halwa) Gogrun ji Khatain (Turnips in Kanji style pickle) Kachumber (cucumber, onions and tomatoes spiced with salt, chilli powder and lemon juice) Papad and Roti Sindhi Thali #11 This is a Thali most suitable for a new mother. As per Sindhi tradition, a new mother is supposed to have home made, nutritious food without onions, garlic, garam masala, turmeric etc, for the first forty days. Known as Viyam Ja Khada (meaning, post- partum food or food after child birth) the above thali is made as per the dietary restrictions for a new mom. Carrots Chehro Phulko (Cumin, salt, pepper flavored roti) Methi (Fenugreek leaves) Singyun Tamate mein (Drumsticks cooked in tomato gravy) Tooryun (Sponge gourds) Phote mein Karela (Bitter gourds cooked in Cardamom flavored curry) Lolo (in the centre of the Thali). Rajgira ladoo (Not home made) Tring (placed out of the Thali) For More details about the diet or for the recipe of each dish, please click here! Sindhi Thali #12 Tidali (3 dal mix) Juar Jo Dhodho(Patted Jowar Roti) Vangan (Tawa fried Brinjal) Bartho (Brinjal Chutney) Kachumber (Onion rings marinated with salt, chilli powder and lemon juice) Mint Coriander chutney Sindhi Thali #13 Lun~ak (Purslane) (Recipe coming up next) Churi Khichdi (Dry Khichdi i.e rice and mung dal chilka cooked with salt and water) Karele Ji Chhill (Sun dried bitter gourd peels, toasted on a griddle with a tsp of ghee/oil) till crunchy. Mirchan Ji Khatain (Bhavnagri chillies pickled in lemon juice) Curds, Roti, Cucumber and Papad Sindhi Thali #14 The most Popular Sindhi Thali I have ever made!Starting from roti, in clock wise direction: Shikarpuri Phulko (Simple whole wheat flour Roti) Koki Baat Jo seero (A sweet made from broken wheat) Sindhi Kadhi Saibhaji (Sindhi style Spinach cooked with assorted vegetables and lentils) Dal (Yellow lentils) Das meha Boondi raita Kachalu and Alu Took(Crisp fried Taro root and potatoes) Sanna pakora (Double fried gram flour fritters) Attey ja Ladoo (Whole wheat flour ladoo) Tosho (A sweet made from flour and sugar syrup) Steamed rice topped with Sindhi Boondi Sindhi Papad and Kheecha (Khichiya papad) Gathri pickle /Bheendi/Kadhukash (Mango pickle, on the top left, outside Thali) So if you were to cook/share a Thali meal with your friends/Family, which of the above meals would you love to share? Do let me know in the comments. Also, if you think that this post is worth sharing, then please do so! Don’t forget to tag me so that I can thank you personally!

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Tomato Soup~Just For You

Alka Keswani — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:31:11 +0000

The recipe of this wonderful Tomato soup is highly inspired by Mansi’s Restaurant style tomato soup. Ingredients: Tomatoes (red and ripe) 6-8 ( I used 7 medium sized as seen in pic) Onion 1, finely chopped 3 cloves 3 -4 black pepper corns 1 Kamaal Patt (Tej Patta) 5 cloves of garlic 1/2 inch of dalchini or even less (optional if you don’t have it) 1-2 tsp of butter or more Salt as per taste Red chili powder less than 1/4 tsp (or adjust as per your taste but always add red chili powder after whole soup is ready) Water 4-5 cups Sugar 1 and half tsp or as per taste Method: Gather all the ingredients. Saute onions and garam masala. Add chopped tomatoes. Add water just above the level of tomatoes . Cover the lid and let it boil for at least 25 minutes, or if using pressure cooker, wait for a whistle and cook under pressure, on low flame for 10-15 minutes.Put off the flame and let the cooker cool down. Remove tejpatta and cloves and blend the remaining contents till smooth. Strain it using a soup strainer or colander. Add water and bring it to boil again Keep tasting and seasoning it till u get the right balance of taste. You can have it with fried bread croutons or garlic bread or simply roasted bread (butter it first and roast it in MW or on griddle) Print Restaurant style Tomato Soup Prep time: 10 mins Cook time: 50 mins Total time: 1 hour Serves: 3 Creamy but low fat, restaurant style tomato soup recipe with step by step pictorial instructions. Ingredients Tomatoes (red and ripe) 6-8 ( I used 7 medium sized as seen in pic) Onion 1, finely chopped 3 cloves 3 -4 black pepper corns 1 Kamaal Patt (Tej Patta) 5 cloves of garlic ½ inch of dalchini or even less (optional if you don’t have it) 1-2 tsp of butter or more Salt as per taste Red chili powder less than ¼ tspn (or adjust as per your taste but always add red chili powder after whole soup is ready) Water 4-5 cups Sugar 1 and half tsp or as per taste Method Wash tomatoes, peel garlic and peel and chop onions and set aside cloves, peppers, tejpatta. In a huge pot or pan or in a pressure cooker add butter and let it melt. Add tejpatta,cloves, black pepper and chopped onions along with garlic and saute it till onions turn translucent. Add chopped tomatoes. Add water just above the level of tomatoes (approximately 2 -3 cups). Cover the lid and let it boil for at least 25 minutes,or if using pressure cooker, close the lid and cook under pressure till first whistle is heard. Lower the flame and cook further for 8-10 minutes. Now let the mixture cool down and then blend it (DO NOT FORGET TO discard tejpatta before grinding. You can also discard dalchini and cloves if you wish) till smooth. Strain it using soup strainer or colander. Add 2-3 cups of water and let it boil again for about 8 -10 minutes and when you get the desired consistency, add salt, red chilly powder and sugar and mix it well till sugar dissolves. Keep tasting and seasoning it till u get the right balance of taste. Relish the restaurant style tomato soup with bread croutons or toasted bread. Notes IF you find the procedure lengthy, you can simply add all the ingredients except butter,salt and red chilly pwdr, in pressure cooker,add water above the level of tomatoes and close the lid,cook it as told, cool, grind, and after straining, melt butter in pan and add strained soup,mix well for few seconds and then add water and cook for 10 minutes If the soup get spicier than what you expect,add some fresh cream (2 tsp) or milk (1/2 cup) and some more sugar if soup gets more diluted , keep it for boiling for some more time, or add 1-2 spoon of cornflour in half cup water and mix it and add this to boiling soup and let it simmer for about 2 minutes 3.4.3177

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Chaat or Salad ?

admin — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:09:52 +0000

From past few months, I have been feeling this terrible urge of attaining some super power to uproot all the maddening bad, prevailing around.I can feel a transition within me from being a happy go lucky girl to a nagging, yelling, irked person, conferring eternal damnation to at least 20 people per day (in my thoughts of course). Little things start bothering me and I see red at drop of the hat.When I discuss this with my friends and well wishers, everyone suggests the same thing…”you can’t change the world and there is no sense in fretting and fuming, so just calm yourself and better practice some Meditation.” I agree yoga does helps me considerably to cool down, but is it always possible to remain cool or rather is it always necessary to be as cool as cucumber? Still I took the suggestions of my friends and practiced some deep breathing exercise every time I was cornered . Grocery man, weighing 953 gm of sugar instead of 1000 gm in front of my eyes…I deep breathed and remain silent Ricksha walla (driver of three wheeler public transport) demanded 7 INR instead of official 5 INR rate…I obliged Telephone connection went boooooohooooo….I remained silent Internet connection didn’t got restored despite of hundreds of calls to the pathetic customer care guys and to even- more -pathetic local service providers….I kept quiet. Ethernet card was destroyed due to lightning, TV tuner card went kaput..I didn’t moaned. Just because we reside at wrong side of metro city, we go without current for 8 hours a day, while the metro which is just 25 kms (distance between two railway stations) from our place enjoy uninterrupted power supply….I bear this with silence. Dirty politics in offices, bribe greedy officials in government institutions and policeman demanding free rides in public transport vehicles, female infanticide, people throwing infants and even embryos in garbage bins (whatever their personal excuses be) while garbage stinking in fronts of homes, potholes on roads, that are shoddily filled when some MLA is expected, only to go crap within few days and working class idiotically paying their taxes (coz they are deducted at source) while businessman cleverly escapes from the clutches of Honorable finance minister who can hike the rates of petrol when globally crude oil rates shoots to 110$ /barrel, but forgets to dive back , when the rates slide down to as low as 70 $/bbl There is more stupidity on TV, with every absurd news served to us as BREAKING NEWS, Reality Shows with not so real tears and stories, vulgar stuff aired in the name of Modernism and morons hogging up the limelight, while serious issues concerning to common man are not voiced even for the heck of Genuine news.All served to us between ADVERTISEMENTS.If you watch TV for say 30 minutes, you end up seeing advertisements for 18 minutes and actual stuff for 12 minutes or even less..I don’t do anything to change that……So I keep my cool and stop watching TV instead, but…. …..how far can a sensible person stay deaf, dumb and blind to such apathy ?? Should we always turn our eyes from all this ILL and just call ourselves cool ? I agree ranting wont change anything, but is it possible for a pulsating heart to ignore all this and keep silent with few pranayams? Wont we be as good as dead then? I know even when I wrote all this, nothing is gonna change..not even 0.5% …but should we just seal our lips and ears and eyes and lay dead ? Well after boiling so much of my blood over these issues, I definitely need some energy to go on.When I was a kid, my Mother used to say that pulses and vegetables gives us energy and make us strong.So now let me have some SUPER MOLECULES or proteins as they are generally called and what better source than Kaalachana. I am confused to categorize this simple but power packed dish.I can call it salad since it is a food mixture consisting of boiled and raw stuff,with a tangy dressing, but then I also remember this as one of our favorite chaat sold outside our school gate! So call it whatever you want..but do include this in your diet . Print Chaat or Salad ? Healthy Legume salad recipe Ingredients Kaala chana(black chickpeas) Tomato 1 Onion 1 salt and pepper to taste Tamarind chutney or lemon juice 1-2 tsp Boiled potato Coriander leaves to garnish Method Pick the chana,rinse properly many times with water ,and soak them for about 5-6 hours Later boil it with salty water till cooked.If un-soaked or not soaked for enough time,you might need to boil it for more time, otherwise it is almost done in 2-3 whistles in a pressure cooker.Again that depends upon the quality of chana.So keep experimenting When done, lay them in serving bowl or plate,top it up with dash of salt, pepper powder,chaat masala powder(optional), red chilly powder(optional),2 spn (more or less ....depends upon your taste) tamarind water(just soak a ping ball size of tamarind in half cup of water for 10 minutes,mash it and squeeze it properly.Discard the pulp,and use the tamarind water) Add chopped onion,tomato,boiled potato,or veggies of your choice.Garnish it with coriander leaves 2.2.1 This simple salad is going for: Sra’s My Legume Love Affair Which is the brainchild of Susan Sangeeth’s Eat Healthy-Fight Diabetes contest Divya of Dilse for Diet Food Event

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Simple salad and an award

Alka Keswani — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:41:38 +0000

When Archana announced One D Salad, I thought I will come up with some good sort of salad, since I always have simple sliced cucumber, radish, beetroot etc as salad or at the most, the gujrati style cucumber-tomato-onion chopped salad. I thought I will search some good salad recipes and post them.Meanwhile Iboiled some moong to make moong parathas for my son.Now, to tell you the truth I just don’t like any parathas except aloo parathas. But I always eat whatever I cook for my son, just to depict a good impression on him, that its not good to fuss about the food But that day I just couldn’t convinced myself to bite on those parathas.I did not had time to make something else. I kept staring at the boiled moong , still with the same question in my mind “To eat or not to eat”? Darn… I can’t let them go waste, nor was I ready to give in to those parathas.Thats when Archana’s one D salad hit my brain (ouchh…its still hurting !) So I just threw in together, in a bowl, everything I had in my refrigerator, along with those boiled moong , spiced it up to suit my palate and yo….I was ready with an entry for Archana’s event which called for a protein rich salad Moong beans also called Green gram is a pulse/legume. While pulses are generally high in protein, and the digestibility of that protein is also high, Moong beans also contain good amounts of calcium and Vitamin C. Cooking does not affect the protein content of this pulse.(source asavadha.com). So I guess Archana , this fits the bill since 100 gms of moong are supposed to have 3 gms of proteins Print Moong salad Prep time: 5 mins Cook time: 15 mins Total time: 20 mins Serves: 2 Nutritious and quick to make, moong and vegetable salad Ingredients Boiled Moong (better if sprouted) one cup Boiled potato 1 small Boiled beetroot 1small Carrot 1 Lettuce or cabbage leaves -few Lemon juice 1 spoon Red chilly powder Salt (white or rock salt...I prefer later) Coriander leaves Almonds (optional....I didn't used any,but I have read, its good to add some) Chaat masala powder few pinches Method Wash and soak moong for few hours.Boil them with little water, salt, turmeric ginger, green chillies till just cooked (not mushy) You can use the moong sprouts (much healthier) that are available in food malls or you can wash, soak and then keep the moong wrapped in moist napkin for a day or two till moong sprouts up Mix in salad bowl, the boiled moong and chooped carrots, boiled beetroot, onion, boiled potato, cabbage (either or all of them) Sprinkle salt, red chilly powder, chaat masala powder, lemon juice, fresh coriander leaves and enjoy 2.2.1

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