Lohri ki Thaali / Sankranti ki Thaali is a Thali where the special dishes cooked for Lohri Festival are all put together to form a platter.
Lohri is a Punjabi folk festival, which falls in the month of January. Lohri is celebrated to mark the end of peak winter and is traditionally a harvest festival. It is time to harvest sugar cane, peanuts, radish, mustard.
A bonfire is lit. The lighting of the fire has been common in winter solstice festivals throughout the world. Women go around the fire singing Sunder Mundriye ho, which is associated with a Punjabi folk tale. They pop sesame seeds, popcorn, jaggery, and rewaris, ( these are mini sesame chikki a, just like some buttons ).
It is traditional to eat Makki di Roti with Sarso da Saag, sweets made from jaggery and sesame seeds. In the north, this festival is celebrated with great enthusiasm. I know of friends who celebrate and party at this festival, especially if it’s a bride first Lohri or a baby’s first Lohri.
The Sindhis too celebrate this festival and call it Lal Lohi or even Tira Moori. Tir is sesame and Moori is radish. It is a tradition to eat these two things first thing in the morning. We send sesame seed ladoos, chikkis, gajak, peanut chikkis to our daughters.
Here I have prepared a spread that is prepared traditionally on Lohri. I have posted some of the recipes, but there are some which shall be posted later. This is my post for Day 2, Week 1 of BM #74.
Here is the menu
Snack
( cauliflower florets spiced and dipped into gram flor batter, fried to a crispy golden munch )
( flatbread made with freshly ground corn, jazzed up with grated radish, radish leaves, coriander leaves, and green chilies)
( roasted wheat flour and almonds laced with ghee and edible gum, these Ladoos are a total treat )
( roasted peanuts and jaggery brittle )
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Next lohri I know where I will
Land up 🙂 great feast there
Omg! This is such a beautiful spread.. a feast for the eyes and no doubt for the palette too.Lovely Thaali!!
OMG. That is such an awesome spread!! How did you manage to cook everything together 🙂 Hats off 🙂
Such a lovely spread Vaishali..can't decide which ones I like best!
OMG! You must be bored by these comments now, but I don't get any words to describe your thalis. This one looks amazing and out of the world…
Thank you Sharmila . For this spread the chikki , gajjar ka halwa and ladoos were made a couple of days before , cooking rest of the meal wasn't a task .
Lovely thali. I feel I am stuffing so much food looking at all the pictures 🙂
Vaishali, you are the queen of extravagant presentation and cooking. Lovely spread.
You never failed to surprise us with your interesting and delicious thali foods. I cant take my eyes from ur pictures, so many varieties of sweets, my sweet tooth is craving for some now.
Next season expect me over. It's amazing.
Wonderful presentation Vaishalli…no one can beat you in that 🙂
Nice to read about the culture and cuisine specials for the festival. The thali looks awesome as usual!