South Indian Marriage thali

Variety of foods are served during South Indian marriages that are spread over 3-5 days. Food is served traditionally on a banana leaf. The typical menu of the muhurtham lunch for Tamil Brahmin community include (click on the link for the recipe)

Rice, ghee, cooked tur dal (paruppu),

Paruppu kuzhambu or Arachi vitta sambar (with assorted vegetables like pumpkin, brinjal, carrot etc),

Beans paruppu usli,

One more vegetable(cabbage stir fry with coconut or potato roast without onions),

Kosumalli (moong dal or cucumber),

Vadai (plain paruppu vadai or thayir vadai),

Kootu or aviyal,

Rasam,

Appalam (papad),

Curd,

Puliyodhare,

Chips,

pickle,

One payasam variety(carrot or pal payasam),

Savoury (kara sev),

Ladoo or janghri.

Possible that some item may have been missed out..The picture below has some of the items that are served..

Sending it over to notyet100 for her Shadi ki thali event

and to Shanthi's State Specials event.