Easy Egg Fried Rice | Fried Rice With Eggs - Indo-Chinese Style

                        

 Egg Fried Rice is a quick and simple recipe that can be prepared in no time & perfect for lunchbox or weekend lunch. Egg Fried Rice is also one of the easy way to cook left over rice in a yummy way. Most of the time I finish my left over rice with this Egg Fried Rice Recipe. My kids favorite rice recipe, they will eat Egg Fried Rice everyday. So I Often make this egg fried rice for their lunchbox or weekend lunch along with their favorite Chilli Chicken.

Bread Pulao Recipe | Bread Pulav Recipe | Easy Bread Pulav with Bread Croutons

Bread Pulao/Pulav recipe is an Easy and simple One Pot meal that can be prepared in 20-30 minutes. This Pulav is prepared with bread croutons /crispy bread pieces that are baked and not deep fried. Addition of bread enhances the flavor of the pulao and also tastes delicious. This bread pulao is my kids' favorite lunchbox recipe during their elementary & Middle school times.

Egg Fried Rice Recipe | Indo-Chinese Style Egg Fried Rice Recipe | Easy Egg Fried Rice

 Egg Fried Rice is a quick and simple recipe that can be prepared in no time & perfect for lunchbox or weekend lunch. Egg Fried Rice is also one of the easy way to cook left over rice in a yummy way. Most of the time I finish my left over rice with this Egg Fried Rice Recipe. My kids favorite rice recipe, they will eat Egg Fried Rice everyday. So I Often make this egg fried rice for their lunchbox or weekend lunch along with their favorite Chilli Chicken.

Curry Leaves Rice Recipe | Karuvepilai Sadham Recipe | Curry Leaves Podi Sadam

Curry Leaves Podi Rice/Karuveppilai Sadham Recipe with step by step photos. This Curry leaves podi is prepared with a special podi and you find the curry leaves paruppu podi recipe Here. This curry leaves rice is a healthy lunch box recipe for both kids and adults. As this rice is packed with all healthy and tasty combo ingredients Toor dal, garlic, peanuts, onions, sesame seeds. 

Cilantro Potato Rice / Kothamalli Urulai Kizhangu Sadam / Coriander Rice With Potato - Easy Lunchbox Recipe

 

Today's recipe is an Easy to Make Lunchbox Recipe - Cilantro Potato Rice. Coriander Flavored Potato Rice is a mildly spiced, flavor rich Rice recipe which is perfect for Kids LunchBox along with some Fryums. My kids love Sabudana Khichdi a lot mainly because of the Potatoes in it. So I combined their most favorite potato with their least favorite cilantro and made this Super Tasty Rice with more cashews and peanuts for extra crunch.  Also, this rice recipe can be done in no time if you have cooked rice ready. Addition of cilantro makes this rice healthy and tasty too. Next time do give this Cilantro Potato Rice a try for your kids lunchbox and let me know how it turned out to you. Now off to the recipe

InstantPot Mint Pulao Recipe / Pudina Pulao - Easy Lunchbox Recipe / Instant Pot Pulao Recipe

 

I prefer One Pot Meal for a Quick Lunch meal, and this Mint Pulao is one such time saver recipe using InstantPot. The whole meal is ready in 30 minutes and everything done in one pot, don't worry about ginger garlic paste or chopping vegetables for a flavorful Pulao, Just blend handful of mint, cilantro, ginger, garlic to a paste and use any available veggies or just some cut potato cubes and frozen peas works for this Pulao. InstantPot Mint Pulao can be served with just Onion Raita or some Chips & Plain Yogurt/Curd. 

Tomato Capsicum Rice Recipe /Quick Tomato Rice With Capsicum - Easy Lunchbox Recipe/ Tomato Capsicum Rice for Kids Lunchbox

Very simple and easy kids friendly lunchbox rice recipe using Tomato & Capsicum. Not spicy, tasty rice perfect lunchbox recipe for both adults & kids. Just boiled egg along with this tomato capsicum rice makes a complete healthy and yummy meal. For My kids' lunchbox I prefer Basmati Rice but you can use any desired rice.

Paneer Fried Rice Recipe / How to Make Paneer Fried Rice - Indo-Chinese Style Recipe

My kids love all varieties of Indo-Chinese recipes and Paneer recipes a lot. So why not to combine both and made a simple yet flavor rich rice recipe, Paneer Fried Rice. Instead of adding plain paneer pieces I just spiced up paneer with dry spice powders and roasted in Cast Iron pan before adding it to the rice. This way the paneer was crispy and tasty and everyone at home loved it. You can serve the roasted paneer separately along with some grilled vegetables as a started/side.

Paneer Sabzi Recipe | Quick Paneer Dry Curry Recipe | Easy Side Dish for Roti | Paneer Dry Curry Recipe

My kids like Rotis for lunch box more than rice varieties. So, I try to make easy and quick dry sabzis for rotis, because it is easy to fill in the roti and roll as as my kids prefer chapati Roll or wrap. This Paneer Sabzi is one quick and simple recipe that can be done in 15 minutes or less. You can serve as side dish for rotis along with some Raita or fill it in the roti, wrap it as Kathi Roll. Either way it tastes great and kids will love it for sure. The recipe as follows..

Coriander Pulao Recipe | Kothamalli Pulao | Cilantro Pea Pulao | Coriander Leaves Rice - Easy Lunch Box Recipe

Here, weather is getting down and for the past week it was dull, gloomy and rainy days. I couldn't click any picture and that's the reason I did not post any recipe. After a week,  yesterday got some sun shine and managed to click few pictures of this Coriander Pulao which I prepared for kids lunch box. This recipe is an easy one pot meal and is perfect for lunch box.

Tawa Pulao Recipe | Mumbai Tawa Pulao Recipe | Tawa Pulao - Popular Mumbai Street Food Recipe

Today's recipe is a popular Mumbai special, Tawa Pulao. This is a simple, easy to make mildly tangy, spicy rice with nice aroma. I have already shared a healthy version of Tawa Pulao with Brown Rice & Mixed vegetables , this is a kids friendly version with less vegetables and nice flavor. I often pack this for my kids lunch box along with Onion Raita or Potato Fry.

Vegetable Pulao Recipe | Easy Vegetable Pulao Recipe | Restaurant Style Veg Pulao Recipe

Easy Restaurant style Vegetable Pulao recipe with step by step photos. This is one of the easiest and simple one pot meal with lot of flavor and taste. This recipe of Vegetable pulao is perfect for weekday's lunchbox or a weekend special lunch along with some kurma or paneer gravy. My kids love this veggie pulao for lunch and I make it weekly once for their lunchbox. I wanted to share this recipe here since long time but due to one or the other reason I kept postponing it.
Last week,  I spent some time by cooking and clicking this vegetable pulao and Onion Raita. Cooking and taking food pictures are really helping my mind free from anxiety and stress but, Not all the time. Some how managing and hoping for the heal soon. Now off to the recipe..

Plain Paratha Recipe | How To Make Plain Paratha | Plain Paratha With Step By Step Photos | Plain Parante Recipe

Today's recipe is a Basic/How To's recipe, How To Make Plain Paratha. Plain Paratha is nothing but a Indian flat bread made with loads of ghee or butter for layering. I am planning to post this Basic Recipe for way long time and finally made it today. I make this Plain Paratha for kids breakfast and lunch box along with some sabzi. Paratha/Parante are so flavorful and tasty by itself and a simple raita or pickle or whipped butter is more than enough.

Egg Dum Biryani Recipe | Easy Egg Dum Biryani | Egg Biryani Recipe

Egg Dum Biryani or Egg Biryani using Dum Method is a flavor rich and delicious Biryani and my kids favorite biryani too. Some how this Egg Dum Biryani tastes similar to the Restaurant style Dum Biryani. This is the recipe I recently cooked for blog and the Egg Biryani turned out pretty well.
I usually prefer one pot method for cooking Biryani, that is cooking rice and gravy together with all spices, herbs and vegetables or meat in one pot method. As, this method is easy and quick and the entire biryani can be done in 30 minutes or less.

Aloo Beans Sabzi Recipe | Punjabi Aloo Beans Sabzi | How To Make Punjabi Style Aloo Beans Sabzi | Potato Green Beans Sabzi

Punjabi Aloo Green Beans Sabzi recipe with step by step pictures. Like my other Punjabi Recipes this sabzi recipe is also from my neighbor Aunt. Whenever, I make sweets or snack or baked goodies I share with my 2 Indian neighbor families. And in-return they fill my box with a yummy food. Long back auntie returned my box with full of aloo beans sabzi. Sabzi was so good, full of flavors and my kids liked it a lot. I was happy that they ate all of the green beans along with rotis. So, immediately I want to know the recipe and called auntie and noted down the recipe.
This is one of our family's favorite side dish for rotis and I often make this for lunch box along with Phulka. This sabzi is very easy to make except chopping green beans. If you have helping hand like me yes.,V did this job for me. Most of the time he only chop green beans and okra the previous night. So that it will be helpful for me to cook both breakfast and lunch in the morning.

Methi Thepla Recipe | How To Make Methi Thepla | Methi Roti Recipe

Methi Thepla is popular Gujarthi Flat bread and is prepared using wheat flour/atta, gram flour, spices and fresh methi leaves. Methi Thepla or Methi Roti is a healthy, flavorful and delicious recipe that can be served as a main course for any meal. This Methi Roti doesn't require any fancy side dish, just a pickle or beaten curd is enough for a filling and satisfying meal. Due to the addition of gram flour, the rotis remains soft even after cooling. This way, it is good to pack for lunchbox or for picnic.
Try to use fresh Methi leaves for good taste and flavor. I used homegrown fresh methi leaves, as it was too tender and fresh I used the whole plant, just trimmed the root and finely chopped the plant and used it to make Methi Thepla. If using store bought methi bunches, just use leaves alone.

Okra Rice Recipe | Spicy Okra Rice | Vendakkai Sadham | Indian Lunch Box Recipe

It is hard to feed my kids with some vegetables and one such vegetable is Okra aka Bhendi, Vendakkai. I usually make Poriyal with Okra(Okra Poriyal) and rarely Vendakkai Sambar or Puli Kuzhambu. V suggest me to serve poriyal mixed with rice rather than as a side dish for kids. It is easy to feed them the veggies, so I often make Cabbage Rice, Carrot Rice, Spinach Rice and this time tried Okra Rice with Okra and some Indian spices. To my surprise, this simple okra rice turned out super tasty and kids loved it. I served this mildly spiced Okra Rice With Boondi Raita. Boondi Raita paired well with the Okra rice. I used Pav Bhaji masala for this rice, it tasted almost like a Tawa Pulao with Okra. Now off to the recipe..

Sabzi Sandwich Recipe | Vegetable Sandwich Recipe | Mixed Veg Sabzi Sandwich - Easy Kids Lunch Box Recipe Ideas!

Sabzi Sandwich / Mixed Vegetable Sandwich is one my kids' recent favorite recipe. I often make sabzi for rotis, Sabzi is nothing but a dry curry or stir fry with vegetables. I used to pack roti roll with dry side or stir fried veggies for sanjay's lunch box. He likes stuffed paratha and roti roll a lot than rice. But making rotis in the morning for both breakfast and lunch is sometime hard for me, so as a quick fix instead of roti, I made Sandwich using Sabzi and it was super hit with kids. We all loved it a lot and from that time whenever I bake or buy fresh bread then it will be Sabzi sandwich for the following day breakfast or lunch.

This Sabzi Sandwich is one of the best way to feed veggies to kids. You can use any number of vegetables for this sabzi, here I used carrot, beans, potato and green peas. Easy and healthy meal for kids. Even for adults this makes a filling and wholesome meal, I prefer whole wheat or multi grain bread for myself.

Spinach Pulao | Palak Peas Pulao | Quick Palak Pulav - Easy One Pot Meal Recipe

Quick Palak pulao - One Pot Meal / Lunch Box recipe with step by step pictures. I prefer to cook one pot meal at least once in a week, it can be a Non-Veg Biryani for Sunday's lunch or Arisi Paruppu Sadham for Vegetarian Saturday Lunch or simple and quick one pot meal like pulao for weekdays lunch. I mostly pack rotis & sabzi/Dry side for my kid's lunch box but making rotis and sabzi all five days is not possible since I cook separate lunch for V.  So once in a week I pack rice for sanjay too, sanjay likes mild pulao for lunch, and the pulao should me mildly spiced and not loaded with more vegetables. Keeping that in mind, I prepared this easy peasy Spinach Pulao / Green pulao and he loved it a lot.
Spinach pulao/ Palak Pulao can be prepared in less time with simple ingredients. Recently,I started to use my freezer more, yes.,I started following few of my friends' technique
and freeze beasn, greens, chopped vegetables, seasonal fruits, coconut etc., And it really help me to cook both breakfast and lunch in an hour. For this pulao i used my frozen chopped spinach, put them in microwave with couple of tsps of water and cook in high heat for 2 minutes then blend it with green chilli, ginger and garlic. If you are using fresh spinach, then cook or blanch or use as it is.

Palak Puri(Poori) Recipe | Spinach Puri

Poori is a deep fried flat bread that can be prepared using whole wheat flour & APF. Poori, Batura are my kids most favorite tiffin items but I rarely make it for them. Even though pooris are easy to make, I am lazy to do deep fry stuffs and will cook only to feed blog.  But the things are changing now, as my kids listing the menu to cook what today and what they like to have. And often Poori will be in their list, so this time it is Palak Puri/Spinach Puri. The little one was so much excited to see green colored puris and he loved it a lot. I also prepared Palak Rasam with the left over palak puree(I used a big bunch of palak to make puree) and that was super hit more than this palak puri. I wanted to make it again to share here as it tasted so good and healthy too.
Sometimes the simple things will turn out great in the kitchen and this palak puri is one such recipe. The color and flavor sure pleases everyone. For palak puree, I prepared the same way I used to do for Palak Paneer but you can also simply use the blanched spinach to make simple puree and mix it with wheat flour and make dough. I like to mildly spice up the puree with some ginger, garlic and green chilli. Here you go.,