Serves: 2 Cooking time: 20 mins Ingredients: Capsicum – ½ cup (diced) Carrots – ½ cup (diced) Onion – ½ cup (roughly chopped) Tomato – ¼ cup (finely chopped) Jeera/cumin seeds – 1 tbsp Mustard seeds – 1 tsp (optional) Cinnamon – ½ inch piece Cloves – 4 Dry fenugreek leaves/kasoori methi – 1 tbsp Red […]
Lunch-box Recipes
Green peas cooked in onion-tomato puree
Serves: 2 Cooking time: 20 mins Ingredients: Onion – 1 cup (chopped) Tomato – 1.5 cups (diced) Bay leaf – 1 Cloves – 3 Cinnamon – ½ inch piece Cumin seeds/jeera – 1 tbsp Green peas/mutter – ½ cup Fresh cream, coriander leaves – to garnish Salt – to taste Oil – 1 tbsp Red chilli […]
Potato-stuffed Indian Bread (Aloo Paratha)
Aloo paratha or Indian bread stuffed with potato is a classic north Indian delicacy and is loved by most of us, including me 🙂 I normally do not make parathas often at home, because being a south Indian, I grew up eating rice for dinners too and roti or chapati was prepared rarely for dinners. […]
Vegetable Fried Rice
Serves: 2 Preparation time: 30 minsCooking time: 20 mins Ingredients: Rice – 1 cup Oil – 1 tbsp Salt – to taste Lemon juice – 1 tsp Green cardamom – 2-3 Garlic – 4-5 (finely chopped) Carrot – ½ cup (finely chopped) Cabbage – ½ cup (finely chopped) Capsicum – ½ cup (finely chopped) Mutter/peas – […]
Palak Paneer
Serves: 2 Cooking time: 45 mins Ingredients: Palak (Spinach) – 1 large bunch Paneer – 1 cup (cut into cubes) Onion – 1 large (cut into long thin pieces) Tomato – 2 -3 (roughly chopped) Ginger – ½ inch piece (optional) Garlic – 1-2 cloves (optional) Green chilies – 3 -5 Cloves (Laung) – 2-3 Cumin […]
Soya Kurma Curry
Serves: 2 Cooking time: 15 mins Ingredients: Soy chunks – 1 cup Onion – ½ cup (chopped) Tomato – ½ cup (chopped) Capsicum – ½ cup (chopped) Cumin seeds – 1 tsp Cinnamon – ½ inch piece Mustard seeds – 1 tsp Green cardamom – 2-3 Pepper corns – 4-5 Turmeric powder – ½ tsp Kurma […]