Lunch Recipes

Vegetarian lunch recipes from India

Litti Choka

Roasted stuffed wheat flour dough served with spiced mashed potatoes

Besan badi/ dumplings are added to the curd based gravy

Pumpkin cooked with flavors of jaggery and tamarind

Vegetable side dish with unique combination of bittergourd and potato

Mixed vegetable dish popular during pujas

Okra/lady’s finger cooked in a mustard sauce

Red lentil curry with jackfruit seeds

Hummus like side dish made from split chickpeas

Spicy, tangy and sweet garlic curry

Lentil curry consumed along with rice

Kayada
Banana and rice flour cake
Karkadaka Puzhukku
Mixed root vegetable curry
Doodhi Halwa
Dessert made from fibrous bottle gourd
Kashmiri Chai
Herbal salted tea from Kashmir
Modhuxuleng paator logot patot diya Kosu xaak
Colocasia leaves, knotweed and poison berry cooked in banana leaf
Saar
Simple tangy soup from Mangalore
Palaamusu Karamudhu
Tender jackfruit stir fry
Omitar Khar
Stir fried raw papaya
Sajana Chhuin Besara
Drumstick cooked in mustard seed gravy
Gajorer Halua
Pudding made from carrots and milk
Raungi Ki Dum
Black-eyed beans and spinach curry
Paddu
'Dosa balls' made by deep frying rice and lentil batter
Bajhri jo Dhodho
Pearl millet flatbread
Sem matar aloo
Stir fried field beans
Khubaani ka meetha
Apricot jam made for nawabs of Hyderabad