Saturday 25 February 2017

Lunch Meals

Taken from:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/feb/22/tamal-ray-healthy-lunch-recipe-noodle-pot-dal

Noodle Pot

What you need

  • 2-3 chicken breasts 
  • chilli 
  • salt
  • mange tout
  • 2 carrots
  • 3 large mushrooms
  • 1 lemon + lemongrass
  • 1 small ginger
  • vermicelli
  • oil
  • sprint onions
  • sunflower seeds

How to do it

Chicken

  • preheat oven to 180C
  • slice chicken into small stripes
  • squeeze 1 lemon and cut/dice lemon grass
  • take a small glass bowl and mix lemon juice with 2 table spoon of vegetable oil add a little salt and pepper
  • put the chicken dices into a baking tray and mix with the lemon dressing
  • put into oven for ca 30-40 min

Veggies

  • peel and cut carrots into 2 inch/5cm bits and then quarter them into 4 long 5cm/2inch pieces
  • heat pan with oil and add sliced carrots
  • after ca 3-4min add washed mange tout
  • wash and slice mushrooms
  • after another 3-4 min add the mushrooms
  • cook for another 3-4 minutes
  • remove from heat

Finally

  • get a mixing bowl and put the vermicelli into it. 
  • put water on the boil
  • once boiling take the water and pour over vermicelli so that they are covered in water.
  • Leave for 5 minutes
  • remove water (sieve) and put the vermicelli back into the bowl
  • mix the veggies and roasted chicken (with juice) with the noodles
  • wash and cut spring onions and add to it
  • add 1-2 table spoons of sun flower seeds to it
  • mix well

Lentil Pot

What you need

  • 200-250 g red lentils
  • 2 cloves of garlic
  • 1 onion
  • 1/2 tea spoon turmeric
  • 1 tea spoon nigella seeds
  • chilli flakes
  • salt/pepper
  • 800ml water
  • oil

How to do it

  • slice the garlic
  • put one table spoon oil into a frying pan and heat up
  • add garlic and onions and fry for 6 min
  • add turmeric and mix well for another 30 second
  • take off the heat
  • put the water into a sauce pan and heat up
  • once boiling add the onion/garlic/turmeric as well as lentils to the water
  • put a lid on and let simmer for ca 20min
  • at the end: add oil to the frying pan and add chilli flakes/nigella seeds to it. Roast for 30s
  • add seeds/chilli flakes to the lentils and mix

Flat Bread

What you need

  • 100g wholemeal and 100g plain/white flour
  • pinch of salt
  • 140ml water

How to do it

  • add all ingredients into a mixing bowl and mix thoroughly until you get a soft dough
  • split the dough into 8 different balls and dust with flour
  • heat up oil in a frying pan
  • take each dough ball and roll it flat to a disk of ca 12cm/5in (pizza size)
  • add to the frying pan for 1 minute - then turn it over and cook for another 30s