Express Cooking Round-Up Part 1

Finally the entries have been ordered, sorted and categorized! Whew!! Now I really admire anyone who does an event and its roundup every month! The entries had started pouring in from day one but it's only when I sat down to sort it that I realised how many were there! Can U guess how many?
If I have missed posting any of your entries, please bear with me and just send me a hate mail and I will add it pronto.:) There is no way I can check and double check all of them!
I kept delaying and extending the inevitable but I knew once the Kanji Recipes got blogged here and here, I was running out of excuses to do the round-up! So special thanks to two of my friends, RP and Shn for proofing the post.

Rice Dishes:
With the maximum number of entries, Rice has been voted without contest as the easiest to cook with and most satisfying meal at the end of a hard day.
The three categories of rice meals are :
1. Plain steamed rice with a sauce based curry or stir fry.
2. A Pulav is raw rice cooked together with other ingredients.
3. A fried rice which is cooked rice fried with other ingredients.

Fresh plain rice is a must in most Asian houses and while it is cooking, you have enough time to make a curry or a stir fry and in 15-25 minutes at the most, a rice meal is ready to eat.

Some of our bloggers proved to be exceptionally fast...A full meal made from scratch on the table in under 30 minutes! That too traditional style. So take your time and drool over these sumptuous looking plates and wonder if you can attempt the same without calling the fire brigade.:)

Its not too hard if you take a deep breath, focus only on the kitchen and no kids and spouses come looking for you in that time seeking your opinion. And of course it only works if you have a reliable pressure cooker..or 2 ..or 3.

A Pinch of Spice: Kerala Fish curry, Green Beans, Rice




For The Cook In Me: A 30 Minute Kerala Meal




Yum Blog: Express Rice Meal




Saffron Trail: A Tam-Bram Meal in 30 Minutes




Mishmash: A Kerala Kanji-Payar Meal




Simply Spicy:Kanji For the Soul




Chef at work: Sambhar, Plantain Sir fry, Rice




Cooking for all seasons: Andhra Pappu Curry,Taro Stir Fry,Rice




Cinnamon Trail: Egg Curry with Rice




Snack-O-Rama:A Rice Meal




Simple Curries:
Sometimes we have a bunch of leftovers including rice and roti.(If we all plan ahead and organize ourselves as Jugalbandi suggested!!) But the main dish is missing...Then all we need is a spicy, tangy or sweet-sour curry to round off the rice or roti meal but we run out of ideas..what can be made in so short a time while you heat up the rest of the leftovers? So here are some express curries and stir fries for you to try out. One fresh item can revitalise the meal!

Ahaar: Mixed Vegetable Tofu Curry


Food For Thought: Kohlrabi & Drumstick Dal with Rice




Recipe Junction: Green Tomato In Coconut Sauce and Rice




Live To Eat: Tomato Roast, Scrambled Egg and Rice




Jugalbandi: Thai Red Curry With Brown Rice and Bean-Nut Salad




Finger Licking Food: Tomato Rasam and Cabbage Stir Fry




Evolving Tastes:Mapo tofu, Green beans with cashews, Rice




Mary has two little lambs : Kerala chicken stew




Delectable Victuals: Chenai Elavan Koottu




Curry Bazaar: Microwave Bhindi




Crazy Curry: Apple Daynay




Cooking Thunders: Bittergourd Curry and Microwave Cake




Cinnamon Hut: Potatoes in a light and fragrant tomato gravy




Amma's Special:Tamil Sambhar, Rice




The Singing Chef: Achari Aloo




As Dear As Salt: Paneer Curry




Zlamushka's Spicy Kitchen:Thai Shrimp Fried Rice




Cookery Corner:Quick Healthy Meal




Fried Rice and Pulavs:
Pulav..where the rice and vegetables or spices are cooked together is a filling one pot dish for those absolutely short of time. The rice imbibes the flavor of the liquids and vegetables to make a unique pulav each time.

Fried Rice: And if you have rice leftovers, they are an excellent base to make any kind of fried rice. Just stir fry some vegetables, chicken or meat, some spices and you can have a different rice meal everyday for a month!

Escapades: Quick Tomato Rice




A Mad Tea Party: Mutter Pulav, Greek Yogurt




World Wide Cooking: Talimpu Rice




Veggie Platter: Paneer Methi Pulav




Spice Corner: Moong Kichdi With Carrot Salad




The Spice Café: A Lentilo Pulavo




Saffron Trail:Methi Mushroom Curry With Onion Rice




My Workshop: Shrimp Fried Rice




My Workshop: Asparagus Fried Rice




One Hot Stove: Fried Rice With Glazed Tofu




Nalapaka: Coconut Rice




Khana Pina: Chitranna




Indian Food Rocks: Garlic Fried Rice With Rotisseri Chicken




Food court: Kadhi Kichadi




Chutki Bhar Pyar: Jhatpat Pulav




The Singing Chef: Kabuli Pulav With Yogurt




Add Flavor:Cabbage Rice




Zaiqa:Chicken Biryani




Yum Blog: Bisi Bele Huli Anna




Lajawaab:Hot n Sour Soup, Fried Rice




Tried and Tested Recipes:Ek Top Na Dal Bhaat




Other Grain Recipes:
We get caught up as with the obvious choices for meal times.. rice, roti, pasta, sandwiches, but there are so many other grains that beg to be explored right now. As there is more and more hype about eating healthy and eating a variety of grains, it is interesting to see these mainstream recipes, some with other Grains such as broken wheat and corn and some with variations of the traditional rice and wheat.

Bong Mom’s Cookbook: Broken Wheat (Daliya) Pulav




Vcuisine: Corn Kichidi




Spicy Chilly: Vegetable-Rava Khichdi




My Veggie World:Pulihara With Beaten Rice




En Samayal Arai: Varattu Upma




Cook's Hideout: Broken Wheat (Daliya)Kichadi




The Singing Chef: Taro Rice Balls