Small Dish, Little Plate, Little Dish
Noun
こざら
小皿をテーブルにならべてください。
Please set the small plates on the table.
かくじ、小皿にとり分けてたべましょう。
Why don't we just serve foods into small plates by ourselves and eat at our own pace?
このどでかいステーキを、その小皿に載せるのは無理だ。
It’s impossible to put this huge steak on that tiny dish.
You have a small plate. Wait, is that it? Yep, that's it.
さら uses the same reading as the one you learned with the kanji, except it's ざら this time because of the rendaku. 小 uses an alternate kun'yomi reading. You can remember it by thinking "What are small? Kids (子) are small. Bwahaha."