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
