As part of India Week, we are trying a different Indian dish for lunch every day this week. Each day we will be eating something from the menu at Masala Zone and will be reviewing it for you. Today's dish is the Thali.
For the first day of five we were looking forward to indulging ourselves on one of the most popular dishes in India; the thali. A thali is basically a collection of lots of smaller dishes all served together as one larger meal and is the most common way that Indians eat at home. The separate dishes are served in small bowls all on a large stainless steel platter (as the pictures show).
We went for the Grand Thali, which seemed to have about half the restaurant's dishes on it. It is a complete meal comprising of rice, a curry of your choice, lentils and vegetables all of which are nutritionally balanced. From Masala Zone they range from £9.05 up to £12.15. The exact dishes change each day, but today we EACH had the following dishes:
