Bengali Veg Thali

Vegetable Curry
Jul 07, 2018
Moumita Ghosh
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Today is Saturday, in most of the Bengali houses, there should be vegetarian cooking through out the day, to the honor of God Shani. So the most comfort Bengali lunch is any kind of dal,it can be moong/arhar/biuli/matar dal. But not masoor dal. As in Bengali masoor dal is considered as non-veg item. The vegetarian people don't eat this dal anyhow. So on a strictly non-veg day, no masoor dal is cooked in Bengali house.

This thali contains :

Bhaja muger dal with cauliflower, green peas.
Jhinge aloo posto
little bit deep fried teasel gourd & pumpkin

So let's check for the recipes.

Fried vegetables

Ingredients & Instructions

Ingredients

Potato, eggplant, pumpkin, tissel gourd take 1 each Turmeric 1/2 teaspoon Salt 1 teaspoon

Steps to prepare

Take potato, pumpkin, wash & peel them and cut into round shape. Potatoes will be thin sliced, pumpkin will be little thick like 1/2" thick sliced. Eggplant and tissel gourd should not be peeled. Just wash & cut them round slices. Eggplant will be thick like 1" sliced, tissel gourd will be potato like sliced.
Marinate all cut vegetables with turmeric & salt. Keep aside for 30 minutes. Then deep fry them till nice golden in color. Take them out of the oil and keep on a paper towel to drain the excess oil.

Dal Or Indian Lentil - Apr 09, 2013

Bhaja Mooger/Muger Dal

Bhaja Mooger Dal is a one of the famous Dal recipe, which is usually cooked in any special occasions like guests are coming over or birthday or marriage function. In this Bhaja Mooger Dal you may skip adding nuts & cashew, but with these items this simple Mooger dal becomes rich & tastier. A typical Bengali full course thali always contains a bitter at the first then Bhaja Mooger Dal, fried vegetables, a dry kind of vegetables, a vegetable curry, then fishes and meat, at the end chatni and misti. So this Bhaja Mooger Dal is an important item of a full course Bengali menu. And this Bhaja Mooger Dal must be little sweeter in taste.

Dal Or Indian Lentil - Jun 01, 2018

Bengali Veg Thali

Fried vegetables

Bhaja Mooger/Muger Dal

Biulir Dal Jhinge Posto