Ladies, One of my friend recently had a baby and does not have any help. I am planning to send her food every weekend until her Mom arrives. Can you all pour in some ideas on ready mixes that I can give her and which will require minimal effort for her to cook. My thoughts for now are : 1. Idly batter 2. Oats and rava idly mix ( need receipe for this) 3. Rice and dal kichadi Mix. 4. Instant powders ( Garlic, Curry leaves or coriander) 5. Oats, Barely, Almonds Kanji mix. 6.Cut some 3-5 green veggies and put in ziplock bag for them to cook later. Any other ideas please?
Hi Chitra.So sweet of you to prepare instant mixes for your friend to minimise her efforts.Such a nice gesture.I'm sure your friend will be touched by it.Here's a link to preparation of instant mixes.Hope you find it useful. Cooking Without Kitchen: Homemade Instant Mix
As for breakfasts I can think of rava dosa, neer dosa, oatmeal or granola( you can search foodnetwork.com for Ellie' nutty granola, very healthy breakfast or snack), a huge batch of dosa or idli batter. Lunch or dinner: Bisibele bath( if you have frozen mixed vegetables that will be lot of time saver, it will take barely 10 mins to cook a pressure cooker full of bisibele bath) jeera rice with vegetables( same frozen mixed vegetables a time saver) frozen chapathis with any quick fix curries. This is what I can think of as now. I will add later once i remember. Feel free to ask for any recipes. Hope this helps.
Checkout chitvish jiffy cooking on indusladies. She has several ideas for jiffy breakfast mixes like upma mix, sambar, etc You could make til podi and groundnut podi to eat with dosas/idlis etc Cut veggies is a great idea - a real time saver for your friend! Readymade Rotis are good! Do you know about Sunni undalu - it is usually given to new mothers for milk production, calcium and protein - and healthy enough to indulge for the sweet craving and is supposed to make your back healthy after the childbirth. Dry fry one cup white udad dal till pinkish and let cool Powder it fine, then add sugar/jaggery and powder it further (If you add sugar before powdering dal, dal wont get finely powdered.) You could add some roasted (unsalted) nuts - cashew, badam, groundnut You can store the powder dry for even 2-3 months - when you want to eat it, Just add 1 tbsp melted ghee and make laddus, laddus will also stay good for a week in airtight container. If you can go around once in 2-3 days, you can make some sprouts for munching !! Good source of protein, and will keep hunger at bay! And she could do so many things with it - bhel or raita or even make quick cooking dal or kichdi out of it or grind in mixie and make instant dosas !! OR topping over cheese crackers
