How to serve food on a plate? – Marathi Recipe

Instructions

• Begin with the left-hand side. Keep the glass of water on the left-hand side of the plate.
• As we eat with the right hand, we should not lift the glass with that hand.
• To avoid that, a glass of water is always kept on the left-hand side.
• Also according to Ayurveda, we should not drink much water while having food. That is another reason to keep the glass of water on the left-hand side.
• Start with salt on the top left, then lemon, green chutney, raita, and pickle.
• The things that are served on the left-hand side, must be eaten in less quantity.
• For that, they are served on the left-hand side.
• Then serve fried items like papad, alu chi vadi etc.
• At the center of the plate, serve soft and fluffy poli.
• Next to that, serve varan-bhat and masale bhat with lots of ghee on both.
• On right hand side, serve dry sabzi like mataki chi usal, dry potati sabzi.
• The center and right-hand side of the plate comprises of our main course.
• Next to dry sabzis, serve amti in katori, aloochi bhaji and mattha.
• Mattha helps in the digestion of food.
• Amti is made using tamarind and jaggery. Jaggery contains iron and sourness in tamarind helps in the absorption of iron.
• Serve gobi-matar gravy sabzi next to it.
• Serve sweets like shrikhand and jilabi.
• Keep jilabi next to katori of mattha as we mostly eat jilabi by dipping it in mattha.
• According to Aayurveda, our daily meal should comprise of all 6 “rasas”
• It means it should contain sweet, sour, salty, astringent, hot and bitter flavors.