Indian Breakfast Meal prep that can make your life super easy. I have shared recipe for rava upma mix, rice upma or kozhukattai mix, sandwich, urad dal mix, overnight oatmeal in this blog post.
Indian Breakfast Meal Prep
Hello My Friends. I am happy to share my weekly meal prep ideas with you all. First of all let me clear few things. I know that i would be getting mails and comments from many saying that meal prep is not healthy and you will be losing all the nutrients in the food when it is cooked and stored in advance.
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I agree that meal prep is not the healthier choice for people who prefer their meals to be cooked fresh at that moment. But at the same time meal prep is a boon for all those women's who struggle with work-life balance. They don't have enough time on their hands to cook fresh meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
If you can find a little time on your weekends. Use it wisely to prepare your meals in advance for the entire week. It would save you tons of time throughout the week. Meal prep is way better than buying takeouts from restaurants
I am planning to share my weekly meal prep ideas with you all every week. On our first week, lets see how we can prepare 6 days of breakfast for the week.
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Monday: Grilled Vegetable Sandwich
Meal Prep for Sandwich
- Green Chutney
- Slice and chop vegetables in advance
- Whole Wheat Bread - Sliced and stored in a bread box in fridge
I like to chop up carrots, cabbage, capsicum thinly and store in a air tight container. You can slice some onions thinly and store in a air tight container.
How to Make Sandwich:
Take your bread slices, spread with green chutney on both sides. Top with sliced vegetables, sprinkle top with chaat masala, salt and pepper. Top with cheese. Cover with another bread slice. Grill in a sandwich maker or tawa.
Tuesday: Overnight Oatmeal
Here are few recipes of overnight oats. You can make this ahead of time and store in fridge for 3 to 4 days.
Wednesday : Onion Kara Chutney
You can store this in air tight container in fridge for 4 to 5 days. Serve chutney with dosa, idli or upma.
Thursday : Rava Upma Mix
How to Use: 1 Cup Rava Upma Mix + 2 Cups Hot Boiling Water
Friday: Rice Rava Upma or Kozhukattai Mix
How to Use: 1 Cup Rice Rava Upma Mix + 2 Cups Hot Boiling Water
How to make Upma: Take water in a kadai, bring it to a boil. Add in mix and stir till thickened. Cover and simmer for 10 mins. Use a spoon to fluff it up. Upma is done.
How to make kozhukattai : make upma and shape it into balls. Steam in steamer for 8 to 10 mins.
Saturday : Urad Dal Rice Dosa Mix
Urad dal dosa mix can be stored in room temp for over a month.
Ingredients
- Urad dal with skins - ¾ cup
- Raw Rice - 1 cup
- Fenugreek Seeds - 1 tsp
Instructions
- Powder all three ingredients till fine in mill.
- When making dosa. Take dosa mix and water and make a liquidy batter.
- Add salt to taste.
- You can add onions, chillies, ginger, curry leaves.
- Make dosa by pouring the batter from a height. Drizzle oil and cook till golden.
- Flip over and cook.
- Serve.
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Indian Breakfast Meal Prep Ideas (Monday to Saturday)
Equipment
- Cooking pot
Ingredients
Rava Upma Mix
- 3 cups Sooji
- 3 tbsp Oil
- 3 tbsp Ghee
- 10 no Raw cashews
- 3 tbsp Split Yellow Chana Dal
- 3 tbsp Split Urad Dal
- 1 tsp Mustard seeds
- 1 tsp Cumin Seeds
- 4 no Dry Red Chillies broken into pieces
- 2 sprig Curry leaves
- 1 tsp Asafoetida
- 2 tbsp Ginger peeled & chopped finely
- 5 no Green Chillies chopped finely
- 2 tsp Turmeric powder
- Salt to taste
Rice Upma Mix
- 3 cup Raw Rice
- 2 tbsp Oil
- 1 tsp Mustard Seeds
- 1 tbsp Split Urad dal
- 3 tbsp Split Yellow Chana Dal
- 1 tsp Asafoetida
- 2 sprig Curry leaves
- 8 no Dry Red Chillies broken into small pieces
- Salt to taste
Instructions
Rava Upma Mix
- Heat ghee and oil in a pan. Add in chana dal, cashew and fry till golden. Add in urad dal and cook till golden. Add in mustard, dry red chillies, cumin seeds, dry red chillies, asafoetida, ginger, green chillies and mix well and fry for 1 to 2 mins on low heat.
- Sprinkle turmeric powder and mix well. Add in sooji and toast for 4 to 5 mins. Season with salt and mix. Cool this completely and store in an air tight container.
Rice Upma Mix
- Wash and dry rice completely. Now take it in a blender and powder till rava like texture.
- Heat oil in a kadai. Add in seasoning ingredients and cook till golden and toasted. Add in rice rava and stir fry for 2 mins. Add in salt and mix well. Cool and store in a container for 3 to 4 days at room temp. Store in fridge for over a week.
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How to Make Rava Upma Mix
1 Cup Rava Upma Mix + 2 Cups Hot Boiling WaterHow to Make Rice Rava Upma or Kozhukattai Mix
How to Use: 1 Cup Rice Rava Upma Mix + 2 Cups Hot Boiling Water How to make Upma: Take water in a kadai, bring it to a boil. Add in mix and stir till thickened. Cover and simmer for 10 mins. Use a spoon to fluff it up. Upma is done. How to make kozhukattai : make upma and shape it into balls. Steam in steamer for 8 to 10 mins.If you have any questions not covered in this post and if you need help, leave me a comment or mail me @[email protected] and I’ll help as soon as I can.
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