Lunch box recipe - Vegetable rice with soya chunks | Vegetable biriyani

Its very difficult to prepare a complete meal on a weekday morning and also its not very easy to carry a big lunch box to office. Here is an easy and healthy recipe you can prepare in very less time and rush to office.


Ingredients:-

Soya chunks - A handful / As required
Onion - 1
Tomato - 1
Carrot - 1 small
Beans - 5
Gobi/ Cauliflower - A handful / As required
Green chilli - 2
Ginger Garlic paste - 1 tsp (Optional)
Green peas - A handful
Curry leaves - 1 spring

Rice - 1 cup (Basmati / white rice) - I used white rice

Biriyani Masala - 2 tbsp (I use badshah/eastern vegetable biriyani masala)
Turmeric powder - 1 tsp
Chilli powder - 1 tsp
Salt - As required

Water - 2 cup  / As required (General measurement is if you are taking 1 cup rice then take 2 cup or water, just double of the quantity of rice)


Preparation :-

Heat oil in a pressure cooker and add onion into it. Saute onion till it is soft and add ginger garlic paste and green chillies to it. Add all the vegetables one by one and saute for 3 minutes. Add the tomatoes also.

Now add the cleaned and drained rice to this and saute for 2 more minutes. Add biriyani masala, turmeric powder, chilli powder and salt and saute for a minute.

Add water to this and check the salt. The salt should be little more which will help to get the proper taste at the end.

Wait for 3 whistles and switch off the flame. Garnish with coriander leaves.

Tips:-
You can use only soya chunks or vegetables to prepare this rice.
Add garam masala powder for better taste.

Aaloo Pudina Rice - An easy rice recipe

This is an easy rice recipe which you can prepare if you want to cut short some time spent in the kitchen and relax. But before making this recipe you need to be careful about some points. Many people don't like the smell or taste of pudina. So if your family loves pudina then only attempt for this recipe.(Ha ha , this is a warning).

Ingredients:-

Rice (ponni / basmati)- 1 cup
Pudhina leaves - 1 bunch
Ginger - A Small piece
Green Chilli - 3
Lemon - 1
Potato cut into cubes - 1
Onion - 1
Oil - As required
Cinnamon - 1 small piece
Cardamom/Elaichi  - 2
Cloves - 3

Preparing Rice:-
Cook the rice as you normally do, but with salt.

Preparing Pudina and onion paste:-
Grind cleaned pudina leaves, half onion, green chiilli and ginger to a fine paste and keep it aside.
Cut the remaining half onion as thin as possible.

Preparing Pudina Mix:-
Heat oil in a kadai and add cinnamon, cardamom and cloves and saute for a minute. Now add thinly sliced onion and saute till onion turns light brown color.

Now add the ground paste of pudina and onion to this and saute again for sometime.

Now add the potato cubes to this and cover the kadai with a lid.

Stir it in between and once the raw smell of pudina is gone then add the cooked rice to this and mix well. Squeeze one lemon to this rice mix (This is optional.)

Now you can serve the hot pudina rice with raita or achar.

Tips:-
You can add paneer or beans or peas instead of potato.
If you don't want to cook rice separately then add the washed rice to the pudina mix and pressure cook it.