Simple Vegetarian Tamil Nadu Thali Recipe

Blogging Marathon# 40: Week 4/ Day 1
Theme: Bookmarked recipes from BM# 39
Dish: Tamil Nadu Thali

Today we are starting the final week of blogging marathon# 40. After posting the unused posts from last month's mega marathon, this week's theme is still related to the mega marathon. I'm going to post the bookmarked recipes from my fellow marathoners for the next 3 days.

Mega marathon was sure mega in lots of different ways -- mega research, mega posts, mega yapping on Whatsapp and then mega bookmarked posts after the marathon itself. I had bookmarked a lot of dishes, which I'm sure I will not be able to get to if not for this theme. After seeing so many amazing thalis during the marathon, I'm kind of obsessed with the thali concept. So for the next 3 days, I decided to do 3 thalis with bookmarked recipes.

For the first day, I have a very simple thali from Tamil Nadu. Initially I was planning to make an elaborate thalis like the ones Sandhya & Nalini posted. But one the day I planned to cook, one dish after the other got dropped out of the list and in the end it was an extremely simple thali with everyday dishes. In case you are wondering what I took off the list, I planned to make masala vada/ paruppu vadai, sundal and a lentil based dessert.

Finally this is what my Thali consisted of:

Cabbage Poriyal
Potato Podimas
Kootu
Mango Pachadi
Tomato Rasam
Sambar
White Rice
Yogurt (not shown in the picture)

Kootu: I used Sandhya's Chow-chow kootu recipe and since I didn't have chow-chow (chayote), I used bottle gourd/ sorakaya instead. The use of ground masala paste gives this dish a lot of flavor and it goes well with both rice and roti.

Tomato Rasam: Tamilians sure know how to make a mean rasam. So I just followed Sandhya's recipe for rasam and it sure was super tasty.

Lets check out what my fellow marathoners have cooked today for BM# 40.

Comments

Priya Suresh

May 24, 2014 at 12:18 pm

Omg, ur thali makes me hungry even after i finished with my lunch, those dishes are simply delicious.

Usha Rao

May 24, 2014 at 1:29 pm

This thali itself looks elaborate to me. If you had cooked all sides you had planned to, it would have been a mega elaborate thali. Wonderful job! Even I have a long list of bookmarked recipes and don't know when I will try all those recipes!

Sarita

May 24, 2014 at 3:18 pm

What a wonderful thali!

Varadas Kitchen

May 25, 2014 at 1:37 am

What a lovely thali! All the dishes look great.

Sandhya Ramakrishnan

May 25, 2014 at 4:24 am

Lovely recipes Pavani and this is not simple....Such a elaborate meal for the bookmarked theme 🙂

vaishali sabnani

May 25, 2014 at 5:07 am

The thali is by no means simple..it looks just perfect!..lovely dishes and they look inviting, I have yet to do thalis from South..I am book marking..will come back for reference!..well made and well presented.

Shama Nagarajan

May 26, 2014 at 1:32 pm

delicious and drooling !!!

Harini-Jaya Rupanagudi

May 27, 2014 at 1:27 pm

Wow! Lovely homey recipes. Love these everyday kind of recipes.

Srivalli

May 28, 2014 at 2:41 pm

That surely looks so inviting Pavani, all the dishes look so complementing and so delicious..very well done..

Sapana Behl

May 28, 2014 at 6:22 pm

Wow ! Love.y thali and all dishes looks yummy ..especially mango pachadi...

Suma Gandlur

May 30, 2014 at 1:22 am

Lovely platter. A south Indian style thali like that is welcome anytime. 🙂

Archana Potdar

June 14, 2014 at 5:13 pm

Delicious thali. Love the mango pachadi.

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