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. 

Tomato Biryani Recipe(Pressure Cooker Method) / Thakkali Biryani Recipe/ Tomato Rice One Pot Biryani

Tomato Biryani is an easy and tasty Biryani that can be prepared in a jiffy. I have already shared this Tomato Rice Biryani recipe few years back with little variation and today sharing the easy Pressure Cooker Tomato Biryani Recipe. This my Mom's recipe and she makes the best one and one of my favorite recipe of her's. My school and college friends too love my Mom's Tomato Biryani and have been asking me to share the recipe. You can also use coconut milk to make this Biryani for more rich and flavor but we always make it plain and simple with less and easily available ingredients. Now off to the Pressure Cooker Tomato Biryani Recipe..

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.

Palak Khichdi Recipe / InstantPot Spinach Dal Rice / Palak Dal Khichdi Using InstantPot

Hello all, Good to be back after 4 years. Hope to keep my website active from now on and planning to update recipes frequently. Heartfelt thanks to my followers who kept emailing me now and then for updates & recipes. Some of your messages motivated me to come back.

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..

Aadi 18 Recipes | Aadi Perukku Lunch Menu | South Indian Variety Rice Menu

Aadi 18 / Aadi Perukku special recipes or Lunch Menu. Aadi perukku or Aadi 18 is celebrated on the 18th day of Tamil Month Aadi. This festival is common in South India and is celebrated as a tribute to water's life sustaining properties. My Mom used to make variety rice, payasam and vada on this special day. I prepared this Variety rice platter for last year's Aadi Perukku and did not get time post it and was lying in the draft for almost a year. Today thought of sharing it as tomorrow is Aadi 18 and this post may help you to prepare your lunch menu.

Indo-Chinese Veg Fried Rice Recipe | Vegetable Fried Rice Recipe | Restaurant Style Veg Fried Rice(Indo-Chinese Style)

Amma/Mom, the word itself gives so much happiness, energy and hope to life. No one and nothing can compensate a Mom and her unconditional love and care. I lost my MOM on May 20th 2016 due to sudden cardiac arrest at the age of just 50. I never thought that I will not meet her forever.

It is one month now but I am in that same state of shock, pain, fear and loss. I have no good reason to console myself and stay strong. She is not that much old or not sick person. On May 19th night 9.45 pm India Time, I spoke to her and she was normal happy and excited because of her daughter( My sis) and grand daughter's arrival. It was only a 13 minutes conversation, usually our call will not end before 2 hours but that day I wasn't feeling well  with severe dizziness and headache that i couldn't lift my head. So she felt sad for me and told me to take rest and said, that she will call me in the morning to check how I am doing.

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..

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.

Mushroom Fried Rice Recipe | Quick Mushroom Fried Rice | Easy Chinese Fried Rice Recipe

Mushroom Fried Rice Recipe, Quick and easy Chinese Fried Rice Recipe flavored with garlic and Mushroom. I have already share the recipe for Restaurant Style Fried Rice Recipe with lots of vegetables, bean sprouts and also a Spinach Masala Fried Rice Recipe with Indian spices/Garam Masala. This Mushroom Fried is a simple lunch box recipe that can be prepared in a jiffy. As mushrooms doesn't require more time to cook, this is perfect to Make Fried Rice. Chinese & Indo-Chinese recipes are our family's favorite ones and it is most welcomed anytime. I do not use more sauces and always prefer to make it light and simple. This Mushroom Fried Rice is one such simple one with great taste and flavor and the recipe as follows...

Quinoa Pulao Recipe | Quinoa Capsicum Pulao | Quinoa Pilaf Recipe

Today's recipe is a healthy, delicious and Vegan One Pot meal with Quinoa and vegetables - Quinoa Capsicum Pulao. More than Millet I love Quinoa and including it in my diet regularly. This time experimented the Indian way as One Pot Meal and it turned out so good. When Hema of Aromatic Cooking, gave me the two secret Ingredients,Capsicum  and Cashew nuts for Shh Cooking Secretly Challenge Event, an event by Priya, I wanted to make some rich cashew tomato curry sauce with Mushrooms but then decided to go with simple cooking and prepared this Quinoa Pulao with both the Ingredients in it.

Mint Rice / Pudina Sadham / Mint Rice With Capsicum - Easy Lunch Box Recipe

If you are looking for a quick, simple and easy to make lunch box rice recipe? Then this Mint Rice is one such recipe that you can make it in a jiffy. If you have Fresh Mint Leaves in abundant, then this mint rice is a must try recipe. There's a small garden in my neighbor gaury's house. They planted tomato, bell pepper, watermelon, mint leaves, tulsi, methi and few more greens. Mint had grown abundantly in their garden so every week i get fresh mint leaves from their garden. Auntie gave me a huge bunch every time, i enjoyed making my favorite Mint Chutney for idlis, Aloo Mint Raita, Mint Thogayal, Green Chaat Chutney.

Cranberry Rice / Spicy Cranberry Rice

Cranberries are normally considered too sharp to be eaten plain and raw, as they are not only sour but bitter as well. But Me and V love fresh cranberries with salt and chilli powder, like how we eat raw mango. The sour and mild sweet Cranberries tastes so good with chilli and salt. Whenever i buy fresh cranberries i make Instant Cranberry pickle or simply end up eating it raw. This time for a change tried this Cranberry Rice using fresh cranberries, since we love savory stuffs with Cranberries than the sweet based or drinks. Also the savory and spicy preparation of Cranberries tastes similar to Mango recipes. So i tried this rice similar to Raw Mango Rice with the addition of onions. The end result was so yummy, tangy and spicy rice. We loved it a lot. If you haven't tried any savory recipes with Cranberries then give it a try, you will definitely love it. Still having some fresh Cranberries and decided to try some sweet or dessert with it. Now off to the recipe...

Peanut Rice / Verkadalai Sadham - Easy Lunch Box Recipes!

I mostly prefer quick fix meal or some simple rice recipes for lunch. This peanut rice is one such quick simple meal that needs only few ingredients and and also an easy way to finish off some left over rice. This Peanut rice doesn't need any great side dish. Just a chips/Papad/Fryums is enough. Like other variety rices, this Peanut rice comes in rescue on some or lazy weekdays lunch. Since I love peanuts in any form, I used to add peanuts in most of my variety rices, upma and in all possible dishes. There are tons of variety rice recipes and different methods of Peanut rice, this is my convenient method with fresh coconut touch. Very flavorful and delicious rice, some fryums or papads with a bowl of peanut rice is enough for a happy & satisfying meal.

Tomato Rice / Quick Tomato Rice ~ Easy Lunch Box Recipe !

Today's recipe is one quick, simple and easy to make Tomato Rice that is perfect for lunch box with some chips or any vegetable fry. I have already posted this recipe along with Homemade Ginger Garlic Paste post but then thought its a too lengthy post, so thought to share it here as a New post. This Tomato rice can be done with left over rice but for lunch box i recommend to try with freshly cooked & cooled Rice. This is my most favorite quick fix recipe and i love to add some masala powder to my tomato rice. Its sure gives nice flavorful and yummy rice.