In this post, I have shared a list of lockdown recipes for Indian vegetarian breakfast, dinner, lunch and snacks that uses minimal ingredients, vegetables, oil and ghee at home. I have also made a downloadable PDF for easy access. When I shared the collection of upma varieties, some of my readers asked me to post a collection of easy Indian breakfast’/ dinner and lunch recipes using non perishable foods, uses minimum or no vegetables and rice during this lockdown period / home quarantine period.
Not only that, many people working from home find it really difficult to manage kitchen, household works, kids and office work together without house maids. For those people, I have shared some easy breakfast, lunch and dinner recipes which can be prepared instantly with less chopping works, minimum vegetables and dry ingredients.
Most of the recipes I shared here are with dry ingredients like pulses, legumes, flours like wheat flour, ragi flour, rice flour, Poha/ pressed rice, sago, rava which can be stored for long time. I have given recipes with basic vegetables like potato, tomato, onion for side dishes.
Lunch recipes given in this list are one pot rice recipes that can be prepared quickly under few minutes in a pressure cooker, few kuzhambu varieties without any vegetables or with a single vegetable like potato, cabbage, cauliflower etc. Most of these recipes can be stored in refrigerator and use it for few days. Infact, they taste more better day by day. Just reheat and serve.
You can alter the recipes based on the ingredients in hand i.e by using chilli powder instead of chillies, using frozen vegetables instead of fresh ones, by using tomato puree instead of chopped tomatoes, desicated coconut etc. Finally I have also shared few snacks and sweets recipes which needs less oil and ghee by getting ideas from my friend Shalini and my sister Radha.
During this pandemic situation, I am trying to include foods that are rich in Vitamin c, anti fungal, anti viral Indian spices to improve and boost immunity. So I am taking pepper, cumin, garlic, ginger, onion, turmeric in the form of rasam, thogayal, pachadi, podi varieties, chutney varieties, turmeric milk, garlic milk. I have added all these recipes in the list. I also consume fruits like mosambi, orange, gooseberry, muskmelon, apple and watermelon in my regular diet to keep up the immunity levels. I will add more recipes using gooseberry in my upcoming post and include them in this list.
I hope this list of lockdown recipes would be helpful to you to decide on what to cook during this home quarantine period. I know I am late in sharing list but its better late than never. Ok friends, lets check out the list of Indian recipes that can be prepared during this lockdown period with the available ingredients in our pantry/ kitchen. Lets hope and pray God to overcome this pandemic situation and fight Corona !!
PDF DOCUMENT
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Dosa batter using rice flour (Needs fermentation)
- Tomato chutney without onion, garlic, coconut
- Onion chutney without tomato, coconut
- Onion garlic chutney without tomato, coconut
- Peanut chutney without onion, garlic
- Pottukadalai / roasted chana dal chutney without coconut
- Carrot chutney without coconut
- Curry leaves chutney without coconut
- Kadamba chutney
Check out my 65 chutney recipes collection for more options.
Idli Sambar varieties
- Instant idli sambar without toor dal
- Instant tiffin sambar with pottukadalai
- Tomato sambar without toor dal, coconut
- Tomato sambar with coconut
- Tomato sambar with coconut – version 2
- Tomato sambar without dal for dosa
- Green tomato sambar / thakkali kai sambar
- Tomato brinjal sambar
- Hotel idli sambar
- Moong dal sambar for idli
- Udupi sambar without onion garlic
- Besan sambar
- Bombay chutney
- Kumabakonam kadappa
Check out my 30 Idli sambar varieties for more ideas !
Kurma Varieties / Gravies for roti
- Dal tadka
- Restaurant style dal fry
- Potato kurma
- Potato masala for poori
- Aloo bhaji
- Dum aloo
- Aloo palak gravy
- Dahi aloo
- Aloo peas masala
- Chana kurma
- Green gram kurma
- Chana masala in pressure cooker
- Chole for bhatura
- Instant kurma without vegetables
- Frozen green peas kurma
- Tomato kurma
- Brinjal kurma
- Cabbage kurma
- Capsicum kurma
- Tomato capsicum masala
- Cauliflower kurma
- Plain salna for parotta, dosa
- Salem tomato kurma
- Rajma gravy for rice
- Paneer recipes collection
Check out my kurma varieties collection for more ideas !
LUNCH RECIPES
- Microwave cornflakes mixture/ chivda
- Kellogs cornflakes mixture with less oil
- Idli fry (low cal version)
- Ammini kozhukattai
- Kara Pidi kozhukattai
- Neer urundai
- Kanda poha
- Aloo poha without onion
- Kara pori with garlic
- Beach style kara pori
- Roasted Phool makhana
- Masala peanuts in microwave
- Sundal varieties (Green gram , white / brown chana, frozen peas, sweet corn, Rajma)
- Boiled peanut chaat ( You can use boiled sweet corn instead of peanuts)
- Butter cup corn
- Eggless French toast
- Microwave dhokla
- Vegetable Spring roll in air fryer
- French fries (Baked version details shared)
- Fryums chaat
- Chocolate toast
- Chocolate quesadilla
- Veg cutlet
- Aloo patties ( shallow fry in oil)
- Potato nuggets (Shallow fry in oil)
- Bread rava toast without curd
- Bread besan toast
- Easy garlic bread
- Easy bread pizza
- Potato bread roll (shallow fry in oil)
- Gujarati Dabeli
- Mumbai pav sandwich
- Bhel puri
Check out this link for MURUKKU RECIPES.
Check out this link for VADA RECIPES
Check out this link for BAJJI BONDA RECIPES.
Check out this link to see all my snacks recipes collection !
SWEETS RECIPES WITH LESS GHEE
- Sweet ammini kozhukattai
- Sweet pidi kozhukattai
- Chettinad paal kozhukattai
- Easy paal kozhukattai
- Puran poli with wheat flour
- Sweet appam with wheat flour
- Instant ghee appam
- Peanut ladoo with jaggery
- Peanut ladoo with skin
- Rava ladoo
- Moong dal ladoo
- Dates and nuts ladoo
- Besan ladoo
- Wheat flour ladoo
- Roasted gram dal / Pottukadalai ladoo
- Poha ladoo / Aval ladoo
- Coconut ladoo without condensed milk
- Millets ladoo
- Paneer ladoo
- Cashew badam burfi
- Almond burfi / Badam burfi
- Cashew burfi / Kaju katli
- Coconut burfi
- Milk powder burfi
- Coconut khoya burfi
- Dates and nuts roll
- Maida milk powder burfi
- Gud papdi
- Bread pudding
- Bread rasmalai
- Bread kaja (shallow fry bread pieces)
- Gulab jamun with readymade mix ( Exceptional sweet for celebrations : 🙂
- Dry jamun recipe
If you are looking for more sweets recipes, please check this link !!
PDF DOCUMENT
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Friends, do check out the above list. Choose the recipes based on the ingredients in your hands and try them. If you find this list useful, do share with your friends and family members. Do leave a comment in the comment box below. It will make me happy. Stay safe and take care !!
Friends, do check out the above list. Choose the recipes based on the ingredients in your hands and try them. If you find this list useful, do share with your friends and family members. Do leave a comment in the comment box below. It will make me happy. Stay safe and take care !!
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