Oats Chapati & Quick Potato Curry - Lunch Box Combo Recipes

Have no time to cook..Are you in diet..Need some thing delicious for your kids..Are you hungry and need some thing so quick..Then check out this combo..It is so healthy, hardly takes anytime to cook so delicious and so quick to make..I can assure you that this is a keeper..I love eating oats because I know they are healthy for me. I hope you think the same too..Try this and you will love it anytime and let me know what you think..

Oats Chapati Recipe

Ingrediants:

Oats - 1 cup

Wheat Flour / Atta - 2 cup

Salt to taste

Oil- 1 tblspn

Water as needed

Method:

Dry roast oats till it gets nice aroma. Take it in a blender and make into a fine powder.

Take wheat flour, oast powder, salt and oil in  a bowl and mix well. Add water slowly and make into a soft dough. Cover and let it rest for 15 mins.

Drivide into equal portions. Take one ball out and start rolling into a chapati.

Heat up a pan and toast this on both sides till they are cooked.

Remove and keep in a insulated container.

Quick  Potato Curry Recipe

Ingrediants:

Potato - 2 large peeled & cubed

Chilli powder - 1 tsp

Garam masala powder - 1 tsp

Mango pickle - 1 tblspn ( any kind)

Cornflour / Corn Starch - 1 tblspn

Salt to taste

Oil - 1 tblspn

Method:

Heat oil in a pressure cooker, Add in potatoes along with chilli powder, salt, garam masala powder and mango pickle along with some water.

Cover it and cook it for 3 whistle, simmer for 5 mins. Switch off the flame and let the pressure go all by itself.

Now open the cooker and add more water if needed.

Mix some cornflour with water and pour that it and mix well.

Cook it till it get thick

Serve with roti.

Amma's Cucumber Pulikari / Velarikai Thengai Kulambu / Cucumber Cooked in Coconut Sauce

This is a gravy which hardly takes any time to cook..So amma makes it more often than anything else. You can use any vegetable of your choice. You could add ladysfinger, pumpkin, shallots or drumstick, brinjal and make this..Hope you like it..

Amma's Cucumber Pulikari 

Ingrediants:

Cucumber -1 cup deseeded and chopped

Salt to taste

Water to cook cucumber

For Grinding:

Coconut – ½ cup

Turmeric Powder / Manjal Podi -1 tsp

Shallots / Sambar Onion – 3 peeled

Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam – 1tsp

Dry Red Chilli - 2

For Tempering:

Oil- 2 tblspn

Mustard Seeds / Kaduku – 1tsp

Urad Dal / Ulundu -1 tsp

Shallots / Sambar Onion – 3 chopped finely

Curry leaves – 1 spring

Method:

Grind all the ingrediants given in the list to a fine paste by adding some water.

Take cucumber in a kadai and add salt and water. Cover and cook for 10 mins untill cooked.

Now add in the ground masala paste along with some water to make the gravy.

Bring it just a single boil. Don’t let it boil over. Switch off the flame.

Make tempering by adding all the ingrediants to oil and pour this over the gravy.

Mix well and serve with rice.

Potato Curry with Roasted Gram Dal Paste – Side Dish for Roti, Puri & Chappati

This is a yummy potato curry which I made last week to go along side with roti. My sister totally loved it and told me to post step by step recipe in my other blog YUMMY TUMMY. It was so good as a sidedish..So hope you like it and let me know what you think..

Potato Curry Recipe

Ingrediants:

Onion – 1 chopped

Potato – 3 large chopped

Tomato – 2 chopped

Chilli powder – 1 tsp

Coriander Powder – 1 tblspn

Mustard Seeds / kaduku -1 tsp

Salt to taste

Oil- 2 tblspn

Coriander Leaves / Cilantro for garnishing

To Grind:

Coconut – 1 cup

Roasted Gram Dal / Pori Kadalai – 2 tblspn

Fennel Seeds / Sombu / Saunf – 1 tsp

Method:

Grind ingrediants given in the list to a smooth paste by adding some water. Set this aside.

Heat oil in a kadai. Add Mustard and let it splatter ,now add in onions and mix well. Cook for 3 mins.

Add in tomatoes and cook untill it gets mushy.

Add in chilli & coriander powder and mix well.

Ad in potatoes and mix well..Add in a splash of water and cook for 10 mins untill the potatoes are cooked.

Now add in ground paste and mix well.. Pour in enough water and simmer for 10 mins..

Garnish with coriander leaves and serve with roti..