Lunch Box Items for Kids

Potato Rice

2008-07-02T23:14:00.000-07:00

rice - 1 cup
potato - 1/4 kg
green chillies- 8
onions - 2
turmeric powder - 1/4 teaspoon
tomato- 3
coriander and jeera powder-1/2 teaspoon
finely chopped coriander leaves - 1 table spoon
salt
garam masala powder
oil - 3 table spoon
cashew - 1 table spoon

Method
Ground onions, tomato and green chillies by adding water
Cook rice and allow it to cool
Heat oil in a pan and add mustard, jeera to it add the ground paste and cook until the raw smell goes off
then add corianderand jeera powder, salt, garam masala powder and turmeric powder and cook for 1 minure
To it add the cooked rice
Cut the potatoes into thin lengthly pieces and fry them
add the fried potatoes and the cashew on top of the cooked rice and spread the finely chopped coriander leaves

Cauliflower and Peas Pulav

2008-06-30T23:49:00.000-07:00

Basmathi rice - 1 cup

fresh curd- 1 cup
oil- 21/2 table spoon
brinji leaf - 1
cinnamon- 1
cloves- 2
ginger-garlic paste - 1/2 teaspoon
cauliflower- 1
green peas - 1/4 cup
big onion - 3
(cut lengthwise)
tomato -3
salt
green coriander leaves (grind into paste)

For grinding:
small onions - 10
green chillies - 8
(cook little bit in ghee and then grind it)

Method:

Put little oil in the pressure cooker and then add cinnamon and cloves to it
add oinions, ginger garlic paste and cook it and then tomato to it
Then add the ground paste to it and add fresh curd and 1 cup of water to it and cook until and raw smell goes off
To it add salt, cauliflower, peas and rice to it.
Cook for 7 to 10 minutes in low flame.
After sometime add little bit of garam masala and ground corinder paste and ghee to it

2008-06-10T07:02:00.001-07:00

TRI-COLOUR RICE

Rice-1/2 cup
Curd - 2 table spoons
turmeric powder- 3 pinches
salt to taste
pepper powder -1/2 tp
cooked rice -1 bowl
onions- 6 big

Method:
Mix the above ingredients all together and you will get the yellow colour rice. Now cut onions in a lenghtwise pieces and fry them in oil. Now take three equal qunatities of yellow rice, beetroot rice and pudina rice (method for making both rice given before). Now put the green color rice at the bottom of a heavy bottom vessel and then add one portion of the fried onions. Next spread the yellow rice as the second layer and then spread one more portion of the fried onions. Then spread the beetroot rice and next the remaining portion of the fried onions.

Now pressure cook the tricolour rice for few minutes. Now the rice is ready to be served with rice

PUDINA (Mint) RICE

2008-06-10T06:56:00.000-07:00

Pudina
Green Peas - 100 g (if not available dry green peas can be used by soaking in for 1 hour)
Onion -1 big
ginger-garlic paste
green chillie - 2
jeera - 1 tp
grated coconut - 1 tp
garam masala powder - 1 tp
oil - 1 table spoon
ghee - 1/2 tp

Method,
First grind pudina, coconut, ginger garlic paste and green chillies as a paste in a mixie. Now heat the oil and ghee and add jeera to it (by using ghee it gives a nice flavour with jeera). Then add finely chopped onions until it turns light golden brown. Now the the pudina paste to it and cook it in low flame until the raw smell goes off. Then add the pressure cooked peas (if it is the dry green peas) and cook it by adding salt to taste.

This pudina mixture now can be mixed with precooked rice (rice should be cooked 3/4 and should not be sticky) and pressure cook for 1 minute. Now the rice is ready for packing.

Beetroot Rice

2008-06-10T06:54:00.000-07:00

Ingredients: (For serving 2)
Beetroot - 100g
Onion (Big) - 1
ginger-garlic paste - 1 table spoon
salt to taste
red chillie powder as per taste
jeera - 1 tp
oil - 1 table spoon
Ghee - 1/2 table spoon

Method:
Heat oil and ghee and add jeera (this will give a nice flavour and kids will like it)(to it nuts can be added which is optional). Now add onions to it and cook it till it turns light golden brown. Now add the ginger garlic paste to it and cook for some time until and raw smell go off. Then add the flaked beetroot to it and cook it on low flame by adding little water to it and closing it with a lid. After 5 minutes the beetroot gets cooked and now add salt and chilli powder to your taste.
Now you can mix the beetroot with precooked rice (the rice should be 3/4 cooked and should not be sticky) and steam it in the pressure cooker for 2 minutes. Now the food is ready for packing.

Carrot Rice

2008-06-10T06:51:00.000-07:00

rice - 1 cup
big carrot- 3
big onion - 2
peanuts- 2 table spoon (without the skin)
oil - 2 table spoons
cinnamon-1
cloves- 3

Masala powder
coriander seeds - 11/2 teaspoons
jeera - 3/4 teaspoons
red chilly -4
dry coconut- 2 table spoons
(fry the above items in one teaspoon of oil and then powder the above items)

Method:
Cut the onions into small pieces
Grate the carrots.
Cook the rice tenderly and allow it to cool so that they are not sticky
Pour oil in a pan and add cinnamon and cloves to it
Then add the grated carrot to it and cook until it it tender by adding required water to it.
Now add the cooled rice, salt and masala powder and cook in low flame
Add the ground peanut powder to it and mix it well.

2008-06-10T06:50:00.000-07:00

Pepper Rice

Rice- 1 cup
curry leaves
Pepper - 1 teaspoon
ghee- 2 table spoon
salt to taste

Method:
Cook the rice and allow it to cool
Heat 1 teaspoon ghee in the pan and add curry leaves and fry it
Remove garlic skin and cut it into very small pieces
Fry the chopped garlic in the remaining ghee and then add the pepper powder and cook for 1 minute
Now add the rice and salt and crushed curry leaves to it