My recent find in Indian grocery is a packet of frozen green channa, seriously i was the happiest person in the world. Yes i have been looking for this fresh green channa since a long and finally i saw them in frozen section. Without any hesitation i grabbed a packet happily. I have been hunting for this green channa since a long and everytime i go for Indian grocery, i will ask the saleman about these green chickpeas. Unfortunately they usually says that its a most demanded one as North Indians living in Paris dont forget to buy them in huge quantities. Thank god, one of my long wait came to an end few days ago. Back home i cooked a delicious one pot meal with those frozen green channa along with potatoes as biriyani. And this biriyani came out extremely flavourful, delicious and prefect to pack in anyone's lunch box. Trust me this green chickpeas and potatoes works awesome together in dishing out this gluten free one pot meal.

My kids are meat lovers, though i love vegetarian foods, i had an obligation to cook meaty foods atleast a meal per day. Though i cook meat dishes often, i post them very rarely in my space. If you check non vegetarian dishes in my space you will find them lesser than the vegetarian dishes. Dunno why i think twice to post meat friendly dishes here. Since its sunday today, i felt like posting this flavorsome green chicken biriyani aka Herbal chicken biriyani i cooked recently for our lunch as sunday special. This chicken biriyani tastes absolutely fabulous with eye pleasing green colour. Though this dish is also named as Nilgiri Biriyani, i felt like naming this dish as Herbal chicken biriyani as this dish calls handful of mint and coriander leaves with couple of spices. Yes this dish is completely cooked in a special mint & coriander leaves paste grounded along with whole garam masala, green chillies. This briyani is tomato-free dish, only onions is used in this dish with ginger garlic paste. I used yogurt to prepare this biriyani, if you want to make them more flavourful, just replace the yogurt with freshly squeezed coconut milk.

If you dont have any ideas for some lunch box friendly dishes on your mind, dont get tensed. Just check my today's dish and am sure this simple but yet a healthy and delicious rice dish will definitely please your kid's tastebuds. I have seen rarely kids saying 'no ' to paneer, obviously my today's rice dish is one of the easiest dish you can prepare in less time than you can imagine. Honestly, my kids are ardent fan of carrot rice, if i feel bored or lazy to cook a meal, i will stick definitely with easy dishes. One among those easy dishes is Carrot rice. Just freshly grated carrots when spiced with usual spice powder,once sauteed and mixed with rice makes a quick carrot rice. If you add some cubed paneer to this simple rice, trust me this simple, quick carrot rice will get an another avatar and becomes a calcium rich rice dish. If you have leftover cooked rice and cubed paneer in your fridge, this rice gets ready within less than 10 minutes.

Easy meals are always a blessing when you are engaged with so many stuffs in the morning. Preparing foods for a lunch box is definitely a difficult task for a mom especially if the kids are picky eaters. Thank god my kids arent that much picky eaters and now they are grown up. Though i never packed their lunch box for them, i always want to feed them with healthy stuffs in their meal. However i can imagine the hassles every mom go through to cook healthy foods for their kids especially to pack in their lunch box. Am running a month of blogging marathon since three weeks and we are nearing the end of this Mega marathon successfully. Am happy that i could finish this Megamarathon without any hassles though i sticked with easy themes for all these four weeks. Thanks to my followers and my fellow marathoners who are always here for me to give some positive vibes. They never failed to stop motivating me, this gives me more enthu.

After making two delicious kid's friendly lunch box dishes, i couldnt stop myself making an another delicious lunch box dish with a healthy twist in it. Usually i love to make eggplant rice with a special spice powder to make them more flavourful and delicious. And my today's recipe is definitely a different recipe you would have never crossed yet. I prepared this eggplant rice with a flavorsome rich spice powder using sunflower seeds along with other usual spices. I have prepared couple of breads using sunflower seeds, but never tried them in my cooking. Since i want to make a super duper twist to the usual eggplant rice, i simply opted for a spice powder which goes for Sunflower seeds. Initially i was bit skeptical to use sunflower seeds in this spice powder but seriously i want to give a try eventhough its the first time am preparing a spice powder with sunflower seeds.

We are running successfully a month of blogging marathon for the past three weeks. And this week is the last week of this Mega marathon. You might have noticed that am running this month's marathon with 4 themes for 4 weeks. For the first week i picked International Breakfast dishes, 2nd week was No Onion No Garlic Recipes,3rd week was Wholegrains. And for the last week of this blogging marathon is going to be Kid's lunch box recipes. Yes this week's posts are going to be kid's friendly lunch box dishes that you can pack them easily with less efforts. For the first day of this week's theme, am posting this simple, yet a flavourful protein packed biriyani i dished out few weeks back for our meal. My kids loves beans very much in their diet, obviously i dont forget to add them whenever i feel like feeding them easily with this protein rich beans.My young one's favourite black-eyed peas, he just love to munch them once they gets pressure cooked.

Black-eyed peas have became a part of my cooking as everyone at home love this excellent protein rich beans. This is the first time, am preparing a rice dish with this ultimate beans. Trust me this beans are seriously versatile and you can dish many incredible dishes with this fantastic beans. If you have cooked black-eyed peas in your fridge, then trust me, today's rice dish will gets ready very quickly than you can imagine. A prefect lunch box friendly rice dish to pack in anyone's lunch box. Though i have added black-eyed peas, you can prepare this same rice with any sort of beans. Flavored simply with garam masala,pav bhaji powder, cumin and pepper powder, this incredible healthy rice is definitely an easy breezy dish. Since i used grated carrots and cubed capsicums,just saute the vegetables, black-eyed peas with spices before adding the rice, thats it your rice gets ready to enjoy with your favourite side dish.

Jeera Pulao, is nothing but a flavourful, cumin flavoured rice. This rice dish is completely an easy breezy dish to prepare with simple cooking process. If you dont want to spend more time in your kitchen and you need absolutely something flavourful, then you should definitely make yourself some Jeera Pulao aka Cumin Pilaf/Rice. Though this rice dish is very simple to make, when served along with some exotic dal, fingerlicking paneer gravies, or else with lipsmacking non vegetarian curries, this rice tastes absolutely fabulous. Yes any sort of gravies or curries goes prefect as side dish to serve along with Jeera Pulao. Jeera Pulao is my all time favourite as this dish replace very well Briyanis or fried rice if you are planning something special for an occasion. I make this rice often and serve along with non vegetarian curries if its Sunday special cooking. But my today's Jeera pulao is a protein rich one. Yes you read it rite, i have prepared a protein rich Jeera pulao just by adding some cooked butter beans.

One pot meals are seriously a blessing when you dont have enough time to spend in your kitchen. I just love any sort of one pot meals and my space have numerous varieties of one pot meals which can be handy at anytime of the day. Moth beans aka Matki is one among the nutritious beans which is easily available in every Indian grocery stores. Moth beans are extremely rich in proteins if they are sprouted well. However my today's recipe calls for simply soaked moth beans. Am trying to add this tiny beans in our diet quite often,one of those trials is this Biriyani. If its comes to vegetarian briyani i'll usually go for mixed vegetables biryani, but this time for a change i prepared this wonderful looking green biriyani as i want to make something different from the usual ones. This flavourful moth beans biryani calls for all the spices we usually go for making non vegetarian briyanis. Biryanis, this one pot meal suits prefectly to pack in anyone's lunch. Obviously one can carry this nutritious dish in their lunch box along with a simple side dish.

Have you ever noticed that horsegram do exists as black horsegram, usually we get brownish horsegrams from Indian groceries. But during my last trip to India, i saw black horsegrams in a departmental store, obviously i picked them immediately. As much as like usual horsegrams, these black beauties are extremely nutritious and healthy as well. Horsegram offers good amount of proteins and their medicinal properties have long history in India. Various parts of Horsegram plants are used in Ayurvedic treatments of Asthama, kidney stones, jaundice and urinary disorders.Horsegrams have high amount of iron and its helps in reducing iron deficiencies in wormen. Drinking horsegram water or horsegram soups is quite healthy especially for women. This protein rich,low fat horsegram is very much included in weight loss diet. Do you know boiled sprouted horsegram as morning breakfast is healthy and helps a lot in reduce weight.

Moth Beans is known as Matki/Dew beans,these beans are used very much in Indian cuisine. Usually used in preparing many nutritious dishes, this moth beans are extremely nutritious and protein rich. Mostly used in making Misal Pav, Usal, this moth beans works awesome to prepare some fantastic dishes as well. Moth beans have their native from Indian and Pakistan. Moth beans plant grows wonderfully in dry sandy soil, hence these plants are found abundantly in Rajasthan and its grown for both human consumption and fooder.  This beans can be cooked and eaten as a vegetable and can also be processed as dals to preserve them for a long time. These beans can be prepared in sprouts and also be cooked as any other dal or beans.

My blog child was sitting idle for the past two months coz of my long vacation. Though my personnal life kept me super busy, i missed my virtual child very much. And seriously am happy to kick start a new Mega Marathon for a month. Yes its quite a ritual for Blogging marathoners to run two months of Mega marathon during the month of April and September. After a rocking Baking Mega marathon, we are going to run this month's blogging marathon with an another exciting and definitely a fantastic theme. Yes the theme for this Mega marathon is 'Protein Rich Foods'. Obviously we, Mega marathoners will be posting 26 days of many droolworthy, innovative and definitely eye pleasing dishes. Obviously keep watching our spaces for some delightful dishes. Since i travelled for the past two months, am gonna run this month's mega marathon with some easy breezy Protein rich dishes, needless to say am not going to stick some subthemes as my professional life demands much time than personnal life.Since i cant keep myself away from blogging, am trying my best to keep my blog alive by running blogging marathon.