Recipe: Perfect Gujarati thali

Gujarati thali. The first in the series is Gujarati thali. I put together a simple Gujarati thali with everyday food. Gujarati food is sweet, salty and spicy at the same time.

Gujarati cuisine is from the state of Gujarat. Gujarati cuisine varies widely in flavor and taste. A mix of sweet, spicy, and salty flavors. You can have Gujarati thali using 23 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Gujarati thali

1. Prepare of Mix Dal (Urad Dal, Chana Dal, Moong Dal, Masoor Dal, Tuvar Dal).
2. Prepare of finely chopped tomato.
3. Prepare of finely chopped onions.
4. Prepare of chopped green chilies.
5. Prepare of ginger paste.
6. Prepare of garlic chutney.
7. It's of oil.
8. It's of cloves.
9. Prepare of bay leaf.
10. It's of cinnamon.
11. You need of curry leaves.
12. Prepare of cumin seeds.
13. You need of Dry red chili.
14. Prepare of asafoetida.
15. You need of turmeric powder.
16. You need of Salt.
17. It's of Water as required.
18. You need of Coriander as required to garnish.
19. You need of To make rotala:.
20. You need of millet flour.
21. It's of Water as required.
22. It's of salt.
23. Prepare of Ghee.

Gujarati thali is an absolute brand ambassador of the cuisine and culture of Gujarat. With an aristocratic feel to it, the thali consists of food varieties from all corners of Gujarat. The best part about the thali is that it displays the grandeur of Gujarati food in its presentation and delicacy of its taste with a number of food items. Gujarati menu sounded good, but I knew my chef would not give them authentic Gujrati food, so I decided to cook and took his help with boiling and chopping.

Gujarati thali instructions

1. Take all the lentils, wash them with water and put 1 1/2 liter water in the cooker and heat it. Then add 1 tsp turmeric and 1/2 tbsp salt and cook a medium flame for 15 to 18 minutes..
2. Heat the oil in the pan and add bay leaf, cloves, dry red chilli, cinnamon, curry leaves, cumin, pinch of asafoetida, turmeric then add chopped onion and saute for 2-3 minutes..
3. Then add tomato, green chilli, salt, ginger paste and saute for 2-3 minutes..
4. Add garlic chutney (crush 3-4 garlic cloves in a jar and mix 1 tbsp red chili powder) and mix well and turn off the gas..
5. Now add the boiled lentils, add 1 cup of water and cook on low heat for 3-5 minutes. Add salt if needed..
6. For making rotla : Take a little water in a bowl and add salt in it, then add millet flour and knead the dough with water..
7. After the dough is formed, make a circle and make rotala..
8. Then bake from both sides, apply ghee after it is baked..
9. Take a serving plat and garnish a Dal with coriander, also put rotla and serv with onion, green turmeric, kashri, masala buttermilk..

The Gujarati Thali menus are kind of fixed, so we followed that. Heat oil, once hot add mustard seeds. Once the mustards seeds start to splatter add onion and garlic. Cook until onion is translucent, then add potatoes and doodhi/lauki. Add turmeric powder, red chili powder, cumin coriander powder,jaggery, and salt.