Lunch Ideas - Creating Balanced Vegetarian Meals

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Unwell cooking simple meals or having pre-cooked meals Mags

 

Oh tc Dors....rest well.

Adra saka u are watchin on First day ya ( do try doughnuts popcorn nd ice cream durin intermission.....actually thts my Mission )

 

Here's my airline inflight thali.

Paneer in cashew and cherry tomato paste with ...I better stop there. Enjoy!

 

Second thali

(1) Sorrel + red chillies + green chillies make a paste, fry in virgin olive oil , mix with rice
(2) Potato and 1 table spoon of home made tomato paste in chilly flavoured olive oil with curry leaves.
(3) Parvel + aubergine (little) + coriander leaves ground into a pacchadi , fry in virgin olive oil, temper with caraway seeds.

I am crazy about all kinds of flavoured olive oils, basil, chilly, so on.

 

Hehe! That popping paneer has a long history. I used to hate paneer while growing up. I used to call them ”rubber cubes”.

These days I mix paneer cubes in salt, chilly, fennel powder, mango powder and saute in oil before adding to the gravy. That way the chilly tart paneer tastes yum.

You may not discern from the low-resolution picture but the paneer is fried paneer. If I had mentioned all these fatty details, I knew you would kick me out of this thread, so I exalted as protein and paneer. You know that I am slightly lured into fatty and nutty foods. Almond and cashew pastes have a dedicated rack in my fridge. I have started to experiment these days with spices and nuts. Grinding pepper and cashew, yuck! yum! These are the trials and travails of my cooking. I am especially fascinated by Levant, Continental and Indian spices.

Long pepper instead of pepper corns. Katira, kamarkas, isabgol, bhardo all kinds of spices.