Alu Palak is a popular and tasty accompaniment from North Indian cuisine. Spinach puree is cooked with various spices makes a delectable side dish. Boiled potato cubes or fried potato pieces simmered in it gives added flavour. (more…)
Black eyed bean veggie makes a tasty accompaniment with chapati for lunch or dinner. It is loved by children and thus ideal to pack in the lunch box.
Today, I am sharing a stir fry with winter vegetable. Fresh black eyed pea are tasty and make a good accompaniment with chapati or jowar roti. This is a simple yet tasty accompaniment that children will surely love.
Black eyed pea is nutritious and makes a good accompaniment for children in the lunch box. You can use the frozen ones that are easily available. As the fresh ones cook quickly, this can be done in under 30 minutes.
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black eyed bean veggie
Ingredients:
1 cup black eyed bean/ pea
water
2 onion
1 tomato
1 tablespoon oil
1/2 teaspoon cumin
1/4 teaspoon asafoetida
1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder
2 green chilly
1/2 inch ginger
coriander
salt
Method:
Cook the black eyed bean in a pressure cooker for one whistle. Take oil in a pan, add cumin, as it splutters put turmeric powder, asafoetida, green chilly , onion and ginger. Let cook, then add tomato and saute it. Put salt to it. Finally, add the cooked beans to it and boil for three minutes. Garnish with fresh coriander.
Tupperware is widely used everywhere. This lunch box is ideal for school children as it is user friendly
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Black eyed pea stir fry
Black eyed pea stir fry makes a tasty accompaniment with chapati or jowar roti. Pack it in the lunch box to give a healthy meal for children.
Raswali Aloo or Potato Curry makes a tasty accompaniment with any meal. Iy is ideal to pack in the lunch box, it is semi-dry, tasty and easy to prepare.
I remember the days when I had to pack lunch boxes for children, it used to be a well planned out preparation for the next day. It used to be a dry snack for short break and chapati for lunch.Children are fussy eaters and be assured they will not eat if they do not like it. They might exchange the box with classmates or just set it aside. Raswali Aloo was one of the dishes I packed along with chapati. It is easy to prepare and tasty, gets ready in thirty minutes, more easier if you have the pre-cooked potatoes and the dough in the refrigerator. I prefer cooking each day fresh.
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Zucchini Paratha is a tasty and healthy flat bread. It is ideal to treat fussy kids. This is another variety of thepla which is ideal for lunch, breakfast or one can even pack it in the box. (more…)
Aloo matar/ potato pea curry is a classic North Indian accompaniment. Chunks of boiled potato and green peas are immersed and cooked in a delicious gravy laden with spices, it makes a tasty accompaniment with any Indian flat bread as roti, nan, chapathi or phulka.
Potato is a versatile vegetable and easy to prepare. It helps to prepare tasty dishes that is loved by all.
Aloo Matar can be served during breakfast, lunch or dinner. It is ideal to pack in lunch box too. It is vegan and gluten free.
Boil the green peas, if using frozen peas, put them in hot water.
Take oil in a pan, add cumin, as it splutters, add onion to it.
Saute it for sometime.
Add the puree and continue to saute for three minutes. Add turmeric powder, garam masala and coriander powder to it. Let cook for sometime.
Put the melon paste to it.
Add water accordingly to get the consistency of the gravy.
Peel the skin of potatoes and cut into cubes. Put potato pieces and boiled peas to the gravy.
Crush kasuri methi with fingers and sprinkle over it.
Cook for three minutes.
Serve with hot phulkas.
Take a tip:
Having boiled potatoes in the refrigerator eases quicking.
Kasuri methi is readily available in the market. You can make it at home also. Take a bunch of fresh fresh fenugreek leaves, cut the stalk, wash the leaves by rinsing a couple of times in water and put it dry. After sometime, put the fenugreek leaves in a microwave safe bowl and mixcrowave for two or three minutes. Fresh kasuri methi is ready. You can also dry the leaves in sunlight.
Aloo Matar | Potato and peas curry
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Aloo Matar Potato Pea Curry
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Aloo matar is a delicious north indian side dish served with any Indian flat bread as roti, nan or phulka.
Boil peas separately. If using frozen, do not boil for long. Soak melon seeds in hot water for fifteen minutes.
Blanch tomatoes and make a puree. Make paste of melon seeds.
Take oil in a pan, add cumin, as it splutters, put onion in it. Saute for sometime, until it turns light pink in colour. Add ginger garlic paste and let cook for sometime.
Add tomato puree, let cook for two minutes. Add turmeric powder, garam masala, coriander powder and salt to it. Let cook for sometime, add the melon paste and mix it well.
Adjust the consistency of the curry.
Peel the potatoes and cut them into cubes. Throw them into the curry along with green peas. Crush the kasur methi with finger and sprinkle over it.Let cook for sometime.
Serve hot with phulkas.
Notes
Having boiled potatoes eases cooking.
Aloo Matar Potato pea curry
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Preparing the lunch for the office or school is one of the prominent work that we have on daily basis. Oh! It is a dilemma to decide the dish daily. This “X” dish does not taste good in the box, “Y” dish is liked by one child, while the other detests, are some of the cribbings we often hear. Somehow, we have learnt to balance things. Here are 15 lunch box ideas that you can use on a daily basis. I usually packed chapati and sabzi. Rice had to be some kind of prepared dish, not the usual dal or rasam. Do take a peep below.
Providing a good food to the family is our duty. They trust and eat whatever we provide. Make the right choices of what you give commonly to your children. Inculcate the habit to eat fruits on a daily basis, children need to be told many times.
15 lunch box ideas
Here are a few recipes that you can pack for the lunch box.
Sesame rice : Grind the paste and keep it in the refrigerator. Saute it and then mix along with prepared rice. It can be done in thirty minutes.
Have you ever tried making mint paratha? If not, do give a try to it. They are aromatic and refreshing. The smell of mint leaves can never be locked, it spills everywhere. No need of any accompaniment, you can serve it with curds and pickle.
Last year, I was going through Tarla Dalal vegetarian cook book and it was then I found this mint paratha. Since then, I have made it many times.
The humble carrot , though tasty does not standout much as a stirfry. It is ideal if blended with any other kind. Carrot and corn stirfry is healthy and easy to make and can be used as an accompaniment with chapati or phulka. It is also ideal for those who do not like to eat it raw.
Sprouts are storehouse of nutrients and it is highly recommended in a vegetarian diet. Make the sprouts and keep them handy. They can be used for various purposes. Here is a recipe of mixed sprouts veggie which is tasty and easy to make. It is ideal for lunch box along with chapati.
Lemon rice is one of the pre-dominant dishes prepared in South Indian home. It is tasty, makes a good meal and is actually a festive delicacy. A traditional festive meal calls it as chitranna. It is one of the essentials made without onions.
Today, I have a quick-fix lunch box menu. It is ideal to prepare for weekend dinner too. A quick dinner is ready if you have pre-cooked rice on hand. You may use fresh green peas instead of ground nuts.
This is a vegan and gluten-free food, considering that you are using gluten-free asafoetida.
Lemon rice is easy to prepare, filling, can be made with or without onion and one can use left over rice too.
What goes in the Lemon rice
Rice : Well cooked rice that is not smudgy is needed.
Oil : Any neutral oil. I prefer using groundnut oil.
Mustard seeds : It helps in setting the right tone of cooking. The right temperature of oil is used when the seeds crackle.
Bengal gram
Urad dal
Green chillies
Peanut
Curry leaves
onion : It is used here but many people avoid using it when making on a festive day.
lemon : It helps in balancing the flavour of the dish.
coriander leaves
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