How To Eat INDIAN THALI!! | Vegetarian & Meat PLATTERS! 

I think Indian cuisine became yr most fav cuisine so far😍😍 Love from India ❤️

It's ok to drink Dal, but in India, Dal is used as a side for rice or bread (roti). Rarely does anyone drink it as soup. I do drink Dal sometimes when I feel like doing so :)- The rest is traditional Indian food. I don't believe there is one Indian who does not like Samosa. We eat it any time we feel like. Sometimes when families get together we have Samosa or Pakora as a snack. The thali you are eating looks delicious. Please don't feel compelled to eat with fingers. I personally prefer eating with a spoon when I am at a restaurant or eating outside my home. Cashews are relatively expensive in India too. In restaurants they use a few cashews and other ingredients which are less expensive to make that cashew paste for the dish - it is not all cashews or they would have to price it at a level no one would pay.

Dal is not actually a soup, it is a kind of liquid element in our “Thali” which is eaten with rice. We always include “Dal - Chawal” (chawal-Rice in Hindi) in our everyday meal. You should try Dal with Rice, this is how we Indians eat Dal and it’s one of the comforting food. You must also try Dal Khichdi, which is a combined dish of dal , Rice and spices,cooked together.

Try a hot gulab jamun with vanilla ice cream on top. It's the ultimate dessert, combination of hot and cold and little Alfonso will love it. Remember to take it without the gulab jamun syrup.

Gravy becomes smooth because we use cashew (soaked in hot water for 30 minutes and ground to fine paste) paste. Here in India we grow cashews... We get cashews for much lesser price. I buy cashews for INR 600/kilograms. When we add cashews in our curries...it becomes richer in taste. Jessica...here you go.. I will give you the smooth gravy recipe (an easier version) 4 big onion sliced 2 big red tomatoes sliced 6-8 garlic cloves 1&1/2 inches of ginger chopped 2 green chillies A handful of fresh coriander leaves 1/2 cup or little more Cashews 20-25 pieces of raisins ( kishmish) It's better you go to the same grocery store and ask them for Indian cashews and raisins Some dry spices An inch of Cinnamon 3-4 Cardamom 5-6 Cloves Kasoori Methi (dry Fenugreek leaves) Kashmiri Chilli Powder If you add more spices... While you eat...the spices will hit you hard. The measurements which I have given you are perfect. Veggies It's absolutely your choice I usually add French Beans a handful chopped in finger size 2 Carrots chopped in French fries size A small cauliflower...cut and take out the florets ( add these florets in boiling water and add 1/4 teaspoon salt. Boil for 3-4 minutes. Put it in a strainer...let them cool) Paneer cut into cubes. Button mashrooms (halved) Jessica...if you use Soyabean oil... it's better. No doubt coconut oil is good. Coconut oil is used for South Indian cuisines.... and only for particular dishes. You ask the store keeper for Kerala Parotta... It's easily available. You just need to roast the paratha on hot pan sprinkling some Soyabean oil or butter... All over India it is called as Paratha and in Kerala it's called as Parotta... Tastes yumm... Firstly you need to soak cashews and raisins in a bowl of hot water. Heat 1/2 cup of soyabean oil in a pan, heat it, add French Beans, add a pinch of salt, saute them for a while till they look properly fried and 75% cooked. Take them out and keep them on a plate. Don't use napkins. In the same pan there will be leftover oil, in that you add carrots, and the same procedure follows...next one by one veggies even paneer and mashrooms you fry and keep them in the same plate. Next in the same pan, add 2 ladles of soyabean oil, heat it, add 1/2 teaspoon of cumin seeds (jeera), once the cumin splutter, add sliced onions, garlic cloves, chopped ginger and fry them on a high heat for 5 minutes. Once you see the onions and translucent...add sliced tomatoes, 2 green chillies... ( Don't add too many chillies. For cashew based curries too many chillies won't match. ) Fry it till the tomatoes become soft. Off the stove and let it cool. Add soaked cashews and raisins... Add roughly chopped fresh coriander leaves, Altogether grind them to a fine paste using very little water. In the same pan heat another ladle of oil, heat it, add 1/4 teaspoon of cumin seeds, add 1 teaspoon of Kashmiri chilli powder, immediately add the ground paste. ( Please note: when you add chilli powder, you should be more cautious.. chilli powder easily burns and becomes black...that shouldn't happen. It totally spoils the taste as well as colour. ) Fry this gravy on a low to medium heat for a while. Add all shallow fried veggies, give it a proper mix, cook for 3 -4 minutes covering the lid. Adjust the gravy consistency by adding hot water. Lastly add a tablespoon of Kasoori Methi by crushing it in your palms. Taste and adjust the salt. Now you can serve this veggie gravy with Parathas.

There’s no taste like homemade food. 🤤🤤 Love to see u eating wit fingers..! Loads of love from India 😘😘

Wow Jessica,love the way you love and admire Indian food, Eventually,you too learnt having food with hands....yum yum Fingers lickin good😃 Good luck too you girl!!! Keep going as you have not even tasted 10% of Indian cuisines... Hope you taste all the delicacies sooner... And soon you reach 1M. Love you.🌹

Even i like the corner piece of the samosa that's my most favourite part 😋😋

I don't why the serving guy in the restaurant asked you to drink the dal first. We don't drink dal as soup. It's quite heavy. We enjoy dal with rice. Rest all was perfect 👍. Your energy as usual awesome 😎🤠. Vibes positive🤟. Loved ❤️ the video. Few dishes you should try: - White tandoori or Pahadi Kebab - Soya Chilli (Must try) - Egg pokora - Chiken or Mutton (Goat) Keema. - Prawns Masala - Egg Masala - Dal Makhani - Jalebi with Rabdi(Dessert) - As you guys love Gulab Jamun so much, try it with Vanilla 🍨 ice-cream. Take a warm gulab jamun with almost no sugar syrup(dry) and eat it with cold Vanilla icecream. Will wait for your video on Indian food. Enjoy 👍.

Today's thali all food looks actually from India, a perfect 10 on 10 color and shape 👌🤎and I'm from kolkata also, the city of joy😊lots of love 🫂

Happy to see you while enjoying the Indian food...keep eating and keep on dancing..:) Love from India🤍

Awesome video! Cutie Alfonso loves his sweets 💖

Jessica, spot -on for eating with your hands! eating with your hands not only feels great, traditional and authentic, but also connects you to food in a deeper way by activating your sense of touch , sense of texture, sense of smell, sense of sight( when u see a colorful platter of food) all these are important to activate your sense of taste. It’s recommended to have food on banana plantain leaf .If one cannot eat on a banana plate, the next best thing is to have it in copper plate/ glass / bowls as trace amounts of copper is good to enhance your blood oxygen levels. Finally steel utensils which are neutral. Discourage the use of plastics/ one time use cups, plates as it’s not only toxic but bad for the environment. Also if you eat with your hand, the temperature which your fingers can tolerate (hot/cold) is the same temperature which your tongue can tolerate. So if your fingers feel the food is too hot , it’s likely your mouth will also find it too hot- an experience which you cannot get with the spoon :) Also most Indian thali are on a banana leaf which not only is healthy and helping the food not alter its taste when it reaches your plate , but the green leaf adds that calm/ connect to nature, and also enhances the color look of other foods on your plate. All these dates back to ancient Indian Ayurveda and science on why and how..

Yes you can drink dal as a soup but it's actually eaten with rice... just pour on rice n mix it... that's how it's eaten

17:00 Dishes, glasses and bowls made of copper, iron and other metals are quite common in India. In ancient days, water kept in copper glasses overnight solved the problems of copper deficiency. There are many health benefits of using these dishes.

Mam..I am an Indian..I love your smile..! Thanks for praising Indian thali !🙏🇮🇳👍

Most of the indian dishes are customizable and serve with the balancers (of spice)like curd ,tamarind chutney,nariyal chutney ,tamato chutney .

loved the kid.. he's so sweet.. god bless

It’s so good to see that you’re trying all your best to follow Indian tradition to eat with hand and I must tell you, you kinda mastered the way of eating rice with hand I hope you enjoyed your meal lids of love from India 😍😍

Vegetarian Food in INDIA is waiting for you both.... Love from Navi Mumbai INDIA ❤❤❤

Unlike few American food vloggers, you are curious, genuine, fast learning and passionate about what u do.

8:33 Correct. We actually mix that with rice and eat wit our hands. The curry can be eaten, both with naan and with rice.

It's like you becoming a flavourist or a perfumer... When you eat an Indian Thali, you can try a number of dishes with various permutations & combinations. Resulting in an almost endless variety of tastes catering to your tongue That's the uniqueness of an Indian Thali, some exclusive restaurants offer Vegetarian thali with 108 dishes - in both North & South India Jessica, try authentic South Indian filter coffee... Possibly, the best coffee in the world.

The yellow color of the daal is partially from turmeric but it is primarily from the kind of lentil used. The lentils which cook as yellow in color are chana, tur (arhar), moong, and pink masoor. So the lentil soup or yellow dal could be any of these lentils or their combinations.

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Nice to see that u loved the dishes.... & that waiter.. He is from Kolkata... & I live just nearby of Kolkata... Lots of love from India & IIT Madras ❤️❤️

The way you describe and love Indian food 😌⭐💕💕

OMG, The way you ate with your thumb! Complete perfection 😇🤗. Cheers 🍺

Daal is not a typical soup. It is a staple food here in India where we eat daal with rice daily at home. Just squeeze some lime on top of the daal and taste the magic. The curries which include cashews are so silky smooth that's because first we heat a pan and sautee 2 sliced onions, 7-8 cloves of garlic, a little ginger, two large sliced tomatoes, , 2 geeen chillies/red chilli powder, some salt, turmeric, 2 teaspoons of coriander powder, 1.5 teaspoon of cumin powder and about 10-15 whole cashews(soak the cashews into lukewarm water for 10mins before) into 2 tablespoons of butter and 2 teaspoons of vegetable oil. We sautee it for about 8-10mins until the raw smell of the spices go. Then we set it to cool aside for 10mins and then grind the entire thing into a mixer grinder until its smooth. Then we use a strainer n strain the paste directly into the pan and then you can either add pre boiled vegetables of your choice or some marinated n shallow fried chicken to the gravy and voila your dish is ready! Stir it for another 5mins and add some fresh cream on top with some extra butter to make it more silky smooth! Do try it. 😋

You are right.. Shahi Keema is cooked with cashew paste and milk cream. That's what makes it so smooth. You looked cute eating rice with your hand, but you can try with a spoon 😂 we only eat Garlic Naan/ Bread with hand. Rice can be eaten by spoon. Although eating with hand is completely different experience and enhances the taste 😋😋

thanks for appreciating and promoting Indian food

Happy to know you liked the Indian Food Thali. Your pronunciation was very good. I'm from India (Pune). I welcome you to India. Thanks Friend...👍👍👍👍👍

Oh yum! The curries both look amazing !the rice and naan looked fluffy and so good. I need to try out those desserts, those would taste fantastic.

It's so lovely to see you eat with your hands... And using the thumb... Wooww

Ur son is very cute and genius 😊love u all keep it ...🇮🇳❤️

Jessica eating with our god given hands is the best possible thing

It's our pleasure to see u eating Indian food... God bless u.

Hi Jessica you are beautiful and your reactions are more beautiful and as an Indian I am happy that you enjoy Indian Food. Hopefully one day you will visit India and enjoy various colorful cultures and countless delicious food. We Indian believe Host is God and and ALL Indian try to serve them best what they can offer. Enjoy

Your excitement is infectious...love to Alphonso ❤️

I really feel happy when you eat and smile

Both Alfonso are so supportive 😊💕

Impressed by your eating with hand skill🤗

Nice to see you eating with your hand .. I am from south India and here we always use our hands to eat . Can you please try south Indian food mam

You eat like and specially use your hands like a native Indian villager. You always make me hungry by eating that food so tastefully. Love your videos. Keep up the good work. 👍

Alfonso dances well...one lyk👍 4 him specially🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️👍

Try Bengali food.. you'll love them. They taste quite different. Specialities include: 1. Bhapa Ilish 2. Dab Chingari ( prawns cooked inside a green coconut) 3. Murighonto ( Fish head curry) 4. Sutki ( Dry fish ) 5. Kochusaak 6. Dhokar dalna 7. Sukto 8. Dal with fish head 9. Pui saag 10. Kosha Mangsho And the list goes on and on....

In Ayurveda eating with hand is considered very safe and it has various health benefits, Jessica .

Eating with hands has too many benefits........love from india❤️

Great job.👍👍👍👍

The spice in the rice was cardamom, and Jeera( Cumin seed) not Ajwine.

South India food are great try fish fry and in vegetarian you can try dosa and idle and vada.. you will love it mam..

Rightly said when u eat food with hand we do enjoy our food and we are more connected to the food.

Wowwww😍 you ate in the proper Indian way❤ You nailed it💐👌

You are awesome.. We welcome you to India 🇮🇳

Thts absolutely perfect how you clean fingers when eating with handa so tht rice dont spread all over your hands nd start falling everywhere full marks 100/100.

An enthusiastic explorer always enjoys, wherever she goes, whatever she does. Bravo, keep it up

If you guys come to India, then please try to visit Kolkata ( a city in Eastern India) as well. Reasons- 1) You will not get Authentic Kolkata (bengali) food anywhere else, even if you get elsewhere it will be very costly, because of the processing... 2) Bengalis eat food very differently 3) You will get a lots of variety of fishes 4) Not to mention, the fast foods and the world famous Kolkata Biriyani...

Now you are perfectly eating with hands..Nice video cheer up 👍👍👍👍👍

The best part with your video is it’s natural and I love it.

Try gulab jamun with ice cream u will never regret having that combination 😋

Having food with hands in india is a traditional ways of eating food...😊

Now you have become an expert in eating with your hands, I am sure now you will be enjoying the food more.

on your trip to India don't forget to go to Mumbai. The street food is wow and you will find restaurant's that serve food from all over the world that you can enjoy. And lastly try sizzlers at either Kobe's (Near Chowpati beach) or Cafe Royal (at colaba area) to taste the best food

Wow..that was really amazing 👏👏 Jessica. You need to try the rice with the dal, that is a staple food in many households in India..you would really enjoy the combination with some papadam as we know you love papadam😊😊.Lots of love from India❤️❤️

The curries look amazing! Enjoy the food

Enjoyed this indian food

When eating with hand licking the fingers is always a fantastic feeling. Please try South Indian's "RASAM & PAYASAM".In this both dishes three are many varieties childerns could enjoy.

The Thali is a complete meal with all the carbs, proteins, fats, vitamins and minerals. Light and easy to digest. Thalis are available in different forms like 7 dishes, 11 dishes upto 56 type of dishes in one platter

Your Expression is Like Mark Wines Another One of my Favorate Food Vlogger 😄👍🏼

you must try south indian thali("saapadu" in tamil) it is totally different tastes too... you should mash gulob jammun mash with sugar syrup.. it will be good... your video is great..

❤️😍💕 from India.🇮🇳

In India, Alphonso variety of mango is called the King of Mangoes.

Highly recommend you to taste meals from the Iskcon temple... There mostly food is prepared with ghee.... Steve Jobs said when he didn't had money during his early University days, he used to eat in Iskcon temple.. as food is free over there.... But these days along with free meals, there are also restaurants of Iskcon which aren't free... Btw, only Vegetarian food is available at Iskcon...

Love from City of Joy, Kolkata which has some of the tastiest food of India. Nomoskar 🙏 Happy to hear that your server is too from my city. 🙂 Kolkata in western countries is popularly called Calcutta.

You are the most pleasing family I watch on You Tube.

you were eating perfect with your hand ......great

I can see your love for Indian food . Thanks for such a lovely video .

its great to see Americans love eating Indian food ...

Wow cute 🥰 baby boy 💖💖 love from India 🙏

0:08 to 0:24 - Perfect👌 The Perfect way to eat with fingers and you mastered it 👍

Dal that Pulse soup is eaten with rice. It is usually eaten after Sabji (curry) Chapati which is 66-74% of Thali, rice used in northern India is not same as southern India so it should be consumed less as second staple. Wheat has fiber and takes more time to digest, while rice gives quick energy.

Jessica & Alfonso, it's nice to see you both exploring different cuisine. Though you have enjoyed thali there, I request you to visit Pune for more authentic Maharastrian thali or other unique traditional cuisine. As this is not a authentic one.

Delicious Indian food. 🙏

Very nice 👍

You must try Indian beers too... 😍

Ye ma'am. In India most of homes and restaurants use copper bronze and clay and iron made utensils. And trust me these elements enhance flavours.

Ohh you are like me I also like samosa corner because it adds crunch

You have become fully Indian. 😄👌

Now you really got the knack for having rice and curry with hand

Professional dessert taster - Alphonso .

Heyy Jessica...Recently started watching ur videos & let me tell you u guyss are amazinggggggggg! We are miles apart but It feels sooo homely as if me & my sister are eating the food face to face. Also I had had a Q. that do you guys first shoot all of the video n then eat that all or simultaneously....I mean doesn't that food become a little less warm later if you shoot first?? Also, I dont know whether u have tried it or not...but would highly recommend u guys to try Paneer Kentucky (fried one like pakoras) with its heart and soul sezwan chutney...I dont know u get it there or not...But if u do U absolutely must try it in the nxt video. Love from India. love to little Alfonso...his manners shows your upbringing...he ia a gem of the video!

Jessica mam try cooking samosa,and kheer.....

Love From Kolkata, India 🇮🇳

You have natural ability to learn things fast

Usually i eat the bread first when it's hot/warm with the main course and then when the bread is over, i plate the rice and eat it with the remaining main course. And if there is still some rice left, i then finish things with the rice and dal. And then finally have the dessert.

Samosa making-First turn the flour paste into square small sheet then fold it like a pouch to fill Aloo masala then close the opening and fry it in oil.. So to speak.

Good to see that you were eating like indian

Dal is not a soup, but tastes good to drink

My mother love the way you eat and enjoy the food ❤

That kid is so cute. ❤