Lunch Ideas - Creating Balanced Vegetarian Meals

all the best to you @Indhradhanu. good that you could get in happy for you.
in our parts there are bans and freeze..

i would suggest store it in freezer and keep small quantities out. sunflower turns rancid. i buy small batches only and also smoked ones.

oh boy look at the sprouts. i eat them raw. nice bhel, nice sprouts pulao and many more recipes.

enjoy the time with ds

 

dd has been travelling and lands saying she has sticky hair and dandruff. so decided to make some hair oil that could help..



small onions(hairfall), ponnaganni leaves (coolant), thripala ( for dandruff) base is coconut oil.

 

after a break.. rice, curry and coriander chutnwy, sprouts salad, ponnganni greens kootu, cauliflower sabji and buttermilk..

 

@Penelope welcome to this thread.

if by seeds you mean mustard and urad tempering i just do it for all the tempering for the day on a few drops of water else the tempering feels less crunchy.

i use curd if it is something i want my kids to enjoy. else like today it is just water. depends a lot on the day and vegetables.

i use the regular kadai. i have weaned off non stick. so i use indoleum kadai we call kolkata illupachatti. non stick is a breeze to work with.


so this karela has no oil in it..

 

today was a oil free lunch day as we had loads of nuts..not just a couple. the barebequed lemon almonds are a temptation so is sunflower seeds.

so it was lauki/bottlgourd kootu, karela sabji, pepper and jeera rasam, salads with varagu rice and buttermilk too. and a wee bit mango ginger pickle.