Switch to These Flavoursome Recipes For Your Dinner

Dinners are supposed to be kept light and easy. This makes people choose basic dal roti for dinners which consecutively results in making that part of the meal boring. To add some flavours and health to your dinner diet, here are two flavoursome recipes which will increase hunger and the urge of eating. 

People usually skip their dinners to keep themselves light. But like breakfast, dinner too is an important meal of the day and skipping it means a compromise with your health. The below mentioned recipes are full of flavours, healthy and are convenient to make. 

This vegetable tikka contains all the nutritious vegetables 

Serving-6

Cooking time-15 min

Ingredients:

• 50g (1/2 cup) Oats
• 50g Pumpkin
• 40g Carrot
• 40g Green peas
• 40g (1 medium size) Onion
• 5g Garlic
• 4 g Ginger
• 10 g Coriander leaves
• Salt as per taste
• 1/2 tspAjwain (carom seeds)
• Green chilli as per taste
• 1/2 tsp Jeera
• Oil for greasing

 Method:

• Chop green chilli, garlic, ginger, coriander and peas together in a chopper.
• Take a mixing bowl and add oats, chopped onions, grated pumpkin, grated carrot, chopped vegetables, salt, ajwain and red chilli powder; mix all well
• Shape the mixture into flat round tikkis
• Grease a pan with little oil and roast the tikkis on both sides

The tikkis are ready to be served with onion salad.

2. Soya Chunks Recipe: A Roasted Soya Dinner Recipe Fill With Protein

This recipe contains the crisp of onions, tomatoes and soya vadis

Serves (2 PERSON)

Ingredients:

• 1 cup soya chunks-155cal (24gram protein)
• 2 tsp canola oil-81cal
• 1 capsicum -15cal
• 1 onion-28cal
• 1 tomato-25cal
• green chilli as per taste
• 7-8 Garlic 
• ¼ inch Ginger 
• Fresh Coriander
• 1/2 tsp Coriander Powder
• 1/2 tsp Chat Masala/Cumin Powder
• 1/4 tsp Turmeric Powder
• 1/4 tsp crushed Black Pepper(optional)
• 1 Bay Leaf(optional)
• Salt to taste

Method:

• Boil 3 cups of water in a pan and add salt and soya chunks to it; let it get cooked for around 4-5 minutes
• Roughly chop onions, tomatoes and capsicum into slices
• Take a mixing jar and grind ginger, garlic, green chillies and ¼ th of the boiled soya chunks together finely
• Heat oil in a pan and add a bay leaf, let it crackle and then add onions and cook for a minute until it gets translucent
• Now add soya chunks to the pan and saute for around one minute
• To it add turmeric powder, chat masala or cumin powder, ginger, garli and chilli paste and mix well
• Add one tablespoon of water and combine the ingredients well
• Add the tomatoes and capsicum, mix well.
• Now add salt and black pepper and cook for around 3 minutes

The tasty soya chunks are ready to be served.

The above recipes are there to make dinners healthy, convenient and tasty with minimum oil, low calories and flavourful spices. Boring meals would haunt no one anymore.