Week Night Dinner

Monday nights are always the lousiest nights of all the weekdays. After a lazy-dizzy weekend, I’m always reluctant to get into the kitchen after a whole day’s work. Anyways, nothing to do I have to get going and prepare something. So, whatever it be, the preparation shouldn’t take much time, but should be wholesome and of course good to taste.

Now, I started cutting down my options and ended up with jeera-rice, mugh dal and potato fry. This seemed to be a good option with less work to do, and I’ll get back a good output. The recipe for Monday night’s platter is here for you.

Serves 2

Ingredients:

Rice (Chal): 200gms

Pulses (Mugh dal): 50gms

Potato (Aalu): 4 medium sizes

Green chili (Kacha Lanka): 1 or 2

Turmeric powder (Halud guro): 1 ½ teaspoons

Cumin (Jeera): 2 teaspoons

Ghee: ½ teaspoon

Sunflower oil (Saada Tel): 2 tablespoons

Mustard Oil (Sarser Tel): ½ tablespoons

Ginger (Aada): 1” size

Salt to t

Preparation:

For making Jeera rice

  • Boil the rice, and let it cook properly.
  • Drain the excess water out of it.
  • Heat ghee in a wok, as it gets heated add 1 teaspoon of cumin to it.
  • Thrown in the cooked rice and toss for ½ a minute.
  • Keep aside.

For making the Dal

  • Boil the pulses in plain water until it softens.
  • Grind the ginger to make a paste.
  • As the dal gets cooked, add turmeric powder, chili, salt and ginger.
  • Heat mustard oil in a frying pan; add the cumin as the oil gets heated.
  • Drop in the cooked pulses in it.
  • Cook for a minute more.
  • Keep aside.

For making the potato fry

Potatoes cut to fry
Potatoes cut to fry
  • Chop the potatoes to 1 inch size slender pieces.
  • Add turmeric powder and salt to it.
  • Heat the sunflower oil in a frying pan.
  • Throw in the potatoes and fry.
Week night dinner ready to serve
Week night dinner ready to serve
Veg Mini Thali
Veg Mini Thali

You can prepare any other type of pulses of your choice. Serve the hot rice, potato fry and dal; and enjoy your week night dinner. Catch you soon, till then happy cooking and happy eating.

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One thought on “Week Night Dinner

  1. Hi Sudeshna, I know that I will certainly miss the good Indian food when I am going back to Europe – I just added you to my blogroll as well and will for sure be a regular visitor here in the future! All the best, Andreas

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