Ellu Sadam Recipe | Sesame Rice | Variety Rice Recipes

Ellu Sadam, Sesame Rice or Til ke chawal is easy variety rice recipe made with sesame seeds and other easy ingredients. Ellu sadam or sesame rice has very nutty flavor and it's one of the good lunch box recipe option. Great way to include sesame in our diet and also that it's very quick to make. I make once a while ellu sadam or til ke chawal when I want to take a break from routine dal-chawal.

Vegetables Fried Noodles | Easy Veg Noodles Recipe | Indo Chinese Recipes

Vegetable Fried Noodles or veg noodles is an Indo-Chinese recipe popular among all ages and this spicy noodles recipe for the people whom like spicy food unlike Hakka Noodles which is not very spicy. Both the recipes are almost same here we just add lot of sauce to make the noodles more spicy and choice of vegetables still remains to what we like. Now that school holidays going and with kids at home you can try this noodles as kids like noodles and they get variety to eat.

Potato Fry | Sukki Aloo Sabzi | Easy Potato Recipes

Potato fry (stir fry), aloo sabzi, urulai kilangu poriyal whatever we may call it this has to be one of the popular, easy, quick and delicious potato recipe. Potato fry is something that I make very often for a simple reason that it goes well with almost every thing whether it's roti, paratha or rice with dal, rasam, sambar and also that it's so easy and quick to prepare. It's taste good with everything making it great combo and perfect for those lunch boxes.

Mooli Paratha | Punjabi Mooli Ka Paratha Recipe

Mooli Paratha or mooli ke paratha is one of the popular paratha recipe and made in few ways, I personally make mooli ke parathe in 3-4 different ways and today is one of the most easy method of making this muli paratha. We can mooli paratha either by stuffing method or add everything with flour and make paratha and both ways it taste delicious, I choose the method depending on how much time I have in hand and of course on my mood :)

Methi Thepla | Gujarati Methi Thepla Recipe

Methi Thepla is popular Gujarati flat bread or paratha made mostly for breakfast. Methi thepla is one of those paratha we can have it as breakfast, lunch, dinner, lunch box and it's perfect for travelling as thepla stays good for 2-3 days if handle properly and it goes well with just a pickle makes it more interesting for travelling or to have as quick breakfast or dinner. Methi thepla is one of the favorite recipe and it used to regular tiffin box during our school days.

Aloo Gobi (Gobhi) Paratha | Paratha Recipes

Aloo Gobi (Gobhi) Paratha is combination of popular aloo and gobi paratha together. Mashed potato with cauliflower and spices together makes this delicious paratha for breakfast, lunch, dinner, lunch box, picnic etc. If you like aloo paratha then you will like this one too with added goodness of gobi (cauliflower) and spices to make spicy and yummy stuffing.

Baby Corn Biryani | Baby Corn Recipes

Baby corn Biryani is easy, flavorful and delicious biryani recipe, if you like one pot meal then then you will like this one too. Baby corn flavored with coconut milk made this biryani more yummy with mild flavors. This recipe is also works great for lunch box when you want to make something good yet simple and easy then try this biryani, pair it with raita or just curd for a comfort meal or to make it grand pair it along side dish like paneer butter masala, bagara baingan, kashmiri chicken masala, prawn masala etc.

Carrot Beans Poriyal Recipe | Carrot Beans Stirfry

Carrot Beans Poriyal or also known as thoran, stir fry is one of easy side dish recipe which we can make in jiffy and it goes well with rasam, sambar or even any dal tadka/fry. Among all the poriyal carrot beans poriyal must be the most famous one and we can find the same in almost every hotel serving South Indian Meal, in marriages etc. If you want something easy and quick then this poriyal or stir fry is one of the best option.

Tomato Rasam | Thakkali Rasam | Easy Rasam Recipes

Tomato Rasam or Thakkali rasam (saaru) is easy and simple rasam recipe made with tomato, little of tamarind and spices. Tomato rasam goes well with rice normally pair along poriyal (stirfry) some pappad or fryums it makes a complete meal on any day and also good for lunch box recipes. There are many ways of making tomato rasam and this is one of the easy method with little of tamarind and no lentil or dal is used. If you wish you can skip tamarind totally in that case try to use sour tomatoes.

Tindora (Ivy Gourd) Chana Dal | Dal Recipes

Tindora Chana Dal, Ivy Gourd Chana Dal or Kundru dal is easy dal recipe and works as great side dish with steamed rice, jeera rice, roti, paratha etc and we doesn't require any other vegetables as side along with this dal. I normally add vegetables in dal and make a side vegetables too but when rush these dals are really good option specially on week days.

Chawli (Lobia) Biryani | Biryani Recipes | Lunch Box Recipes

Lobia Biryani or Chawali Biryani is easy, flavorful biryani recipe made with lobia/chawali/jhurga, simple spices and coconut milk.  This lobia biryani is perfect lunch box recipe for adults and kids too, it's filling and with goodness of lobia. This recipe is good if you look for change from usual vegetable biryani, soya chunks biryani etc and this one done in jiffy too just we have to soak the lobia previous night that's all.

Palak Moong Dal | Dal Palak Recipe | Dal Recipes

Palak Moong Dal or Mung Palak Dal is easy, healthy and flavorful dal made with palak (spinach) yellow split moong dal and tempered with simple ingredients to make this delicious dal to pair with rice or roti, paratha.  Moong palak dal can be really done in jiffy we just have to pressure cook dal and spinach and then do the tempering that's all the dal is ready in no time, very good way to include spinach in our diet in dal form.

Paneer Makhani Recipe | Butter Paneer Recipe | No Onion No Garlic Recipe

Paneer Makhani or butter paneer is easy paneer recipe perfect for party, festival lunch, dinner, pot luck or even for lunch box. I always make one paneer dish for guest and it's mostly paneer butter masala or this paneer makhani. Paneer Makhani is popular North Indian curry, creamy and delicious with soft paneer it's a treat to eat. Paneer Makhani goes well with naan, kulcha, paratha, jeera rice, peas pulao, kashmiri pulao or any other rice variety.

Bagara Bhaat | Bagara Pulao | Easy Pulao Recipe

Bagara Bhaat or Masala Pulao or bagara pulao is popular rice variety made with simple ingredients and goes well with any curry.  Bagara Bhaat is simple version of biryani made with just garam masala and onions. Different from usual jeera rice or peas pulao bagara bhaat is good change, bagara bhaat or bagara khana is Hyderabadi specility like bagara baingan. Bagara or bagarana means fried or frying, also tempering or tadka also known as bagarana.

Mirch Ajwain Paratha | Easy Paratha Recipe

Mirch Ajwain Paratha or teekha ajwain paratha is variation of normal ajwain paratha. In all the paratha I make ajwain paratha the most as it's easy yet flavorful and goes along anything.  It's perfect for breakfast, lunch, dinner or for lunch box and use to be one of regular in our lunch box during school days too. Twist to usual ajwain paratha is adding mirch/chili, added here is green chili paste but there are few options how we can make these paratha too.

Kashmiri Pulao Recipe | Kashmiri Pulao

Kashmiri Pulao or Kashmiri Pulav is aromatic, sweet, mild, colorful pulao unlike any other pulao.  Kashmiri pulao is very easy to prepare with lot of variety and fruits variations, dry fruits are added generously in this kashmiri pulao which makes this unique. If you don't like your pulao to be on sweet side then just add less of fruits and fry fruits in this recipe and customize according to your preferences and need. Kashmiri pulao we can eat by self and doesn't really require any side dish or even a raita works great along.  But we can pair it with some paneer butter masala or even chole works good or if you prefer some chicken curry on side.

Punjabi Rajma Masala | Rajma Chawal Recipe

Rajma chawal, the staple food for Punjabi's if you visited Delhi you can find rajma chawal everywhere during lunch time; street hawkers or small shops selling pipping hot rajma chawal, chole chawal and in everyone's hand you will find the same thing. I make rajma quite often or say even weekly once rajma, chole, lobia will be featured in menu and we all love it specially DH love his rajma rice being in Delhi for ages he adapted the Delhi food style so much.

Gujarati Thepla | Masala Roti Recipe

Thepla or masala roti/paratha come people call it used to be one of regular lunch box during our school days and something of which we never get bore no matter how frequently it's made.  It's suitable for lunch box cause we can simply pair it up with any simple stir fry or even with pickle or curd.  Methi thepla is the popular thelpa recipe but when methi/fenugreek leaves not in season then this plain thepla comes handy and a good change from usual ajwain or plain paratha.

Besanwali Bhindi Sabzi | Okra Recipes

Besanwali Bhindi Sabzi is similar to bharwa bhindi in this we just don't stuff okra but rather cook the masala or chickpeas flour mixture along with okra/bhindi.  You can say it's easy version of bharwa bhindi as it's taste something similar and we don't have to do the stuffing part making it easy and quick. When I don't have much time in hand or just want to try something for a change then I make this bhindi sabzi with besan (chickpeas flour).

Jeera Rice (Pulao) Recipe | Easy Lunch Box Recipes

Jeera rice is something that I make when I ran out of ideas on what to cook or mostly for guests as jeera rice works with any curry or dal and I like to make simple yet flavorful Jeera Pulao to balance it with spiced curry to make every thing is not spicy and heavy. Or I make jeera rice simply when I feel lazy to do any elaborate meal there was a time when every Sunday it use to be jeera rice for lunch along with a curry and/or dal.