North Indian Thali 3 | North Indian Lunch Menu | Indian Menu Ideas

North Indian Thali is a traditional Indian Lunch Meal having a mix of different appealing and coordinating dishes from the different Indian States in North.

Whether you dine out or make a meal at home, this list of balanced dishes will make your life easy to simply follow this list and enjoy a feast!

My love for Indian Thalis is quite well known, especially when I had an Event dedicated to this theme. I got around 150 different Indian Thalis which was mind blowing!

I have a handful of Vegetarian and Non Vegetarian Thalis, that are so easy to plan and cook at home.
Do check out the collection of Veg and Non Vegetarian Thali on Cooking 4all Seasons and Vegetarian Thalis on Spice your Life!

Coming to this month’s edition, as before I had a couple of requests coming up for having a Thali theme and to make it easy for all, I included International Spreads as well.

For the day 1 Thali, I chose to make North Indian Thali, that consists of different dishes combined in a well balanced way to appeal to our palette. I decided on a menu and consulted Vaishali for suggestions. I then changed based on what she had to offer. Most of the recipes in this Thali are either from her blog or her recipe that was used in her restaurant.

Couple of North Indian Thalis already on the blog, North Indian Thali 1 and North Indian Thali 2

We really enjoyed feasting on this thali, though due to lack of planning, I ended up cooking a Thali during all the Weekends in March. Imagine having a Mega BM around the corner! Needless to say, I have been more stressed out during weekends, though the satisfaction creating a beautiful thali surpassed all hardship!

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Drink
Pudine ki Shikanji

Starter
Raja Kebab

Dry Saute
Jodhpuri Aaloo

Gravy
Makhmali Paneer

Daal
Daal tadka restaurant style

Main
Saffron Rice
Assorted Rotis

Sweets
Gulab Ki Kheer

This entire menu took me about 2 hours of cooking. I started with soaking the rice and putting the milk to condense it for the Kheer.

Next came the aloo that went into the Microwave for cooking

Dal in the Pressure cooker

Paneer was made a day ahead

Once the milk for Kheer got reduced to half, rest of the ingredients were added and cooked. Allowed to cool down as this is served chill

Rice was cooked

Dough for the Rotis was made.

Paneer gravy was made

Aloo was getting roasted in a slow pan.

Finally, the starter was made, which was a speciality from Vaishali’s Restaurant and super hit.

There is one another secret dish in this Menu that will be disclosed later..:)

Hope you enjoyed this treat!

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