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Weekly Menu Plan 12 Oct – 18 Oct

Indian weekly menu plan with breakfast, lunch, snacks and dinner

Indian weekly menu plan with Breakfast, Snacks, Lunch and Dinner options

It’s the Dussera Holidays, which means over 2 weeks of the kid being homebound all day, aside of our trips to here and there.

This means every few hours of “Mummy, I am hungry”, which comes more out of boredom than hunger. To keep my own sanity, this week has an elaborate menu plan, with two snacks factored in. Even though we may be traveling in the middle, and eating out for a few meals, I have planned the entire week’s menu for my readers, some of whom may be in my shoes, with the kids having holidays and having the parents scrambling for ideas on what to feed them.

Please find the links to some of the recipes from the blog / youtube:

BREAKFAST

Besan Cheela | Arisi Upma | Caramelised Bananas

SNACKS

Chocolate Muffins | Cookies | Chivda

LUNCH

Keerai Kootu | Capsicum curry | Eggplant curry | Cabbage curry | Usili | Vendhaya Kozhambu

Kootu Video: Just replaced chopped cabbage with chopped spinach 🙂

DINNER

Pasta in veg sauce | Healthy Pav Bhaji | Quinoa | Egg Curry

Video: How to cook quinoa

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  • In case you didn’t know already, I’m the lady who will not let any batter pass me by without the addition of a vegetable 🙂 Carrots, zucchini, pumpkins and beets make regular appearances in my bakes. Long before unicorn food was a trend, I used to make beet bread with the addition of beet puree to a yeasted dough. So….no surprises that I was looking for a vegetable to add to these muffins. The original idea was to make zucchini-chocolate muffins. A zucchini was grated and all set to go into the batter when a tiny voice in my head asked me to taste the raw zucchini. It was BITTER as gall ! Am I glad that I listened to that voice in my head that day. I needed an immediate replacement for the zucchini. The harvested pumpkin sitting on the kitchen table called out to me. I peeled and grated the pumpkin and it was promptly used as a replacement for the bitter zucchini. That’s how these Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins were born. What's your favourite vegetable to add in bakes?Get the link to this new post on my blog in the bio or from stories.
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  • So that was the lunch I cooked, with some sous chef help with the spuds and the chopping from the husband. 🌿Onion Capsicum sambar that I made using a tetrapak of tomato puree as we didn't have tamarind at home. The kickass local brand sambar powder from Ratna Stores (in Chembur) helped a lot! 🌿Boiled and peeled baby potatoes tossed in coconut oil tempered with cumin and coriander seeds, subzi masala, turmeric, salt and garam masala 🌿A packet of sprouted dried peas cooked and tossed in coconut oil tempered with mustard seeds and chili flakes 🌿Roasted papad 🌿my mum won a number game in a newspaper and she got this dinner set as a gift. She's been telling me to take this since over a year to our Bombay apartment and I finally listened to her. It does make for pretty Instagram plating💖
  • This baby potato roast is the perfect anecdote to this gloomy Bombay weather. Turmeric, crunchy coriander and cumin seeds, fragrant Masalas + time to get that golden brown, almost charred crust-- made a perfect accompaniment to sambar rice. Do you agree??
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