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which is sealed on the mouth and cooked with
simple masalas, in an open fire, this is called
Umbadiyu. It’s a baked alternative to the oily
one and equally or tastier option. This dish is
nutritious and filling, however people like to
have it with green garlic chutney and jeeni sev
(fine noodle like a savoury made from besan.)
While offering it to guests one can add pooris,
jalebis and fresh buttermilk which would like potato, sweet potato, elephant foot yam-
make it a complete meal. suran or jimikand, Taro root – arbi, dry fruits,
coconut, groundnuts, rajagrah and singodha
powder, sabudana etc, basically no grains
like wheat, rice, pulses and our common
vegetables. Just to name a few – Leelo Chevdo,
Sabudana Khichdi, Kaatri, Farari Chevdo,
Sabudana or Kaju wada and various sweet
dishes too, especially ladoos of different types
made from milk and dry fruits.
We all love our traditional food and talking
of thaali, different types of thaali (which
actually means a fixed menu, which can
be easily ordered) we have not only the
popular Gujarati thaali, but Punjabi, Bengali,
Gujarat is also known for its religious Goan, and South Indian thaalis available
population and the many festivals round at different restaurants all across the
the year…. Where alongside celebratory country. Now that we Indians have started
decorations, pandals and pujas, people fast for travelling and are open to trying different
days together like, during the two Navratris kinds of food…Imagine if we could get a
or Naratas, the holy month of Shravan and universal standardized INDIAN THAALI
special days like Ekadashi, Chauth etc. So everywhere……. Give it a thought as to what
naturally there is a wide variety of dishes all food items it could/should include. You
made for those who observe a fast. “Fast could go up to 10 individual items, that
Food” albeit of a different kind. They are should form a filling, notorious and tasty meal
more like snacks which are made from tubers for any Indian. Think about it.
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