Nature can be quite rough sometimes and there can be times like these when it unleashes such fury that it brings our daily life to an absolute halt. If you’re among the many in the city, who live alone, and are still struggling to get back to normalcy from the nerve-wracking cyclone, this is the time you equip yourself with these no-mess cooking skills, that can save you from disastrous times and the late night hunger.
All these recipes just require you to dig up your pantry for some basic ingredients from milk, oatmeal, or even your go-to maggi packets with ways to pack them up with just the amount of protein you need. Some of these dishes require absolutely no cooking, while few take bare minimal ingredients. Give these recipes a try and thank us later!
Cracked wheat khichdi
Ingredients:
- Cracked wheat (or oats)— 2 cups
- Carrots chopped — 1 cup
- Oil — 1 tsp
- Dal — 1/2 cup
Method:
Heat oil in a pressure cooker, splutter some mustard and cumin and add in chopped carrots or any other vegetables you have.
Add in the dal (urad or moong), cracked wheat to the vessel and add some salt.
Add in two cups of water and let it pressure cook for few minutes.
Open the lid and serve hot.
Oatmeal porridge
Ingredients:
- Rolled or quick cooking oats — 1 cup
- Water— 1 cup
- Milk — 2.5 cups
- Nuts (optional)
- Honey (sugar) — 2 tbsp
Method:
Take the oats in a pan and add the water and milk.
Take the milk and boil it in the pan along with the oats for few minutes and add the sugar and honey to let it mix with the hot milk.
Bring the oats to a thick consistency gradually and take it off the heat.
Add some chopped nuts, and fruits and serve.
Maggi, lemon rice style
Ingredients:
- Maggi noodles — 1 packet (without the tastemaker)
- Onion chopped — 1
- Tomato — 1
- Lemon — 1
- Oil — 2 tbsp
- Salt — as per taste
- Mustard seeds — 1 tsp
Method:
Boil the maggi noodles as you usually do, without using the tastemaker.
Heat oil in a pan and splutter some mustard seeds and any cashew nuts, ground nuts.
Saute the chopped onion in the hot oil until cooked.
Add the chopped tomato to the pan and cook for few
seconds.
Pour in the lemon juice and add some salt.
Add in the cooked noodles and mix well before serving.
This meal might take a little more than two minutes but gives you an interesting twist to regular maggi, while adding protein from the nuts.
Doodh poha
Ingredients:
- Milk — 2 cups
- Sugar / honey — 2 tbsp
- Flat rice (poha) — 1 cup
- Nuts (optional)
Method:
Take the milk and boil it in a pan for few minutes and add the sugar and honey to let it mix with the hot milk.
Pour over the hot milk onto the flat rice and let it cool down till the milk is absorbed.
Add some chopped nuts to the poha and serve.
You can also add some cut-up fruit like bananas or apples to make the bowl more nutritious.
This meal takes merely few minutes to prepare and can pack all the calcium you need.
Gram flour pancakes
Ingredients:
- Gram flour— 2 cups
- Chopped onion— 1
- Chopped chilli — 1
- Salt — as required
Method:
Take the gram flour in a mixing bowl and add in some chopped onion, and chopped chilli.
Add some salt and make the flour into a thin batter by adding required water.
Spread the batter thinly on a hot pan like pancakes.
Once the pancakes appear brown on the edges, turn them around and cook.
Serve these protein-packed pancakes hot.
