Cabbage Rice - Lunch Box Recipes

A delicious dish made with cabbage, onions is quick to make It is flavorful and delicious which is a perfect way to use any leftover rice or get the kids to eat cabbage. 

Ideal for office lunch, school lunch or for a weekday dinner. Depending on how much time you have, you can make it without any other veggies (except the cabbage, of course) and it will still taste great!

You can try other cabbage recipes on my blog like

Cabbage Egg podimas

Cabbage Raita

Cabbage (Purple ) Vada
MORE LUNCH BOX RECIPES ARE LINKED BELOW

Cabbage Egg podimas

Cabbage Raita

Cabbage (Purple ) Vada

Prep  time	Cooking time	Serves
15 mins	10 mins	4 persons

Recipe Course: Main course

Recipe type: Indian cuisine

Ingredients Cooked rice - 1 cup Chopped Cabbage – ¾ cup Sliced onion -1 no Green chillies – 2 no’s Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp Fennel Powder (saunf) – 1 tsp Lemon juice – ½ to 1 tsp Coriander leaves –few sprigs Salt – to taste Seasonings Oil/ ghee – 1 ½ tsp Mustard seeds – ¼ tsp Broken urad dal -2 tsp Hing –pinch Curry leaves –few Cashew nuts -1 tsp(optional)

Method

1. Heat oil in a pan at medium heat. Splutter mustard seeds, cumin seeds, urad dal, curry leaves and cashews. 

2. When they turn light golden, add hing. Stir for a few seconds. 

3. Add onion, and green chilies.When the onion turns transparent, add the chopped cabbage turmeric powder, fennel powder. Cook for 2 to 3 minutes.

4. Add the cooked rice and salt. Reduce flame and stir well to mix. 

5. Switch off the flame and add lemon juice. 

6. Garnish with fried cashew nuts and coriander leaves.

Serving Suggestions

• Pickles
• Potato fry
• Fryums 

Notes

• The dish comes in handy when you are tired and want to make something fast that tastes good and is also on the healthy side.
• The cabbage should be chopped evenly. This dish will be a favorite staple in your kitchen.
• Add other veggies like carrots and spring onions just for variety sake.

Mint Pulao - Kids Lunch Box Recipes

Pudina/Mint pulao is one of the easy one pot dishes. Nowadays am trying out variety of pulaos. Pudina pulao is one out of them.It can be made simply with just rice and spices. Pudina pulao can be prepared in basmati rice.Each and every dish has a unique character, Pudina pulao is one dish of that sort which has a quality of getting along with all types of side dish either vegetarian or non-vegetarian.Simple onion raita itself will goes well with this rice.

Other Pulao link are below
Palak Pulao

Gobi Pulao

Soya chunks Pulao

Prep  time	Cooking time	Serves
10 mins	20mins	2 persons

Recipe type:   Pulao

Cuisine: South Indian

Ingredients Basmati Rice -1 cup Onion – 1 big size Ginger garlic paste -1 tbsp Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp Red chilli powder -2 tsp Salt –to taste Water – 1 ¾ cups Grind to smooth paste Mint leaves /pudina – ½ cup Fennel seeds -1 tsp Green chillies -4 nos Coriander leaves –few sprigs Seasonings Oil-1 tbsp Bay leaf -1 Clove -2 no’s Cinnamon -1 “piece Cardamom -2 Star anise -2 no’s Broken cashews- handful

Method

1. Chop the big onion lengthwise and keep ready. Wash and soak the rice in water for half an hour.

2. Grind the mint leaves, fennel seeds and green chili to a smooth paste by adding water.

3.Heat at oil in a pressure cooker and sauté it with jeera seeds, cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, star anise and bay leaf. 

4.Add onion and ginger garlic paste to it and fry until the onion becomes soft. Then add the ground mixture and sauté till the raw smell goes. Now add all the spice mixes and give a stir.Add soaked rice with salt and mix thoroughly and close the cooker.

5. Let it cook for 10-15 minutes and switch off the flame. Once the pressure is released, fluff it with a fork or knife.

6. Then open the cooker and transfer the dish to a serving bowl. Mint Rice is ready to serve!

Serving suggestions

Serve hot with onion raita.

Notes

•  You can add peas, cauliflower, soya chunks also. Instead of water you can add coconut milk also.
• It goes well with boiled egg, and raitas

Mushroom Rice

Mushrooms themselves provide you with lean proteins as they have zero cholesterol, fats and very low carbohydrates. Mushrooms contain natural antibiotics a good combination of vitamins A, B-Complex and C, found in mushrooms also strengthens immune system. It’s good for health & it's a perfect Diet food...

Check out some more Rice recipes

Prep  time	Cooking time	Serves
30 mins	15 mins	4 persons

Recipe type:  Rice varieties

Cuisine: Chinese

Ingredients Cooked Rice - 2 cups Mushrooms  - ¾ cup Capsicum  - ¼ cup Onions – 3 no’s Garlic & Ginger chopped -1 tsp Green chili – 2 no Pepper powder -1 tbsp. Spring onions (greens) -to garnish Sesame Oil -2 tbsp. Salt – to taste

Method

1. Heat sesame oil in pan over medium; add garlic, ginger, and onions. Stir for 30 seconds. 

2. Add capsicum sauté for 4 minutes or until tender. Now add mushrooms, salt, pepper powder and mix well. Finally Add the cooked rice and stir fry for 2 minutes or until heated through and mix all over evenly. 

3. Cook for 2 minutes till done. Cook, stirring, 2 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in sesame oil sprinkle with the remaining green onions. 

Serving Suggestions

Soya Manchurian

Pumpkin fry

 Notes

I used freshly ground black pepper in this recipe. Do not overcook rice; it should hold its shape.

Cabbage Rice

This is one other dish that I had made earlier, cabbage rice. It is a very flavorful and tasty one pot meal. Here is one that we enjoyed a lot. I was bored of simple stir fry, dal using cabbage. Vegetables like cabbage and cauliflower have earned a bad reputation because of the smell it emits while it is cooking, but unusually I have always liked both! My grandmother used to add either cumin or ginger while cooking these vegetables to reduce the pungency to some extent. So if you are one among the cabbage haters, then you have got to try this rice recipe and I bet you'll develop a soft corner for the poor vegetable. 

Prep  time	Cook time	Serves
15 mins	10 mins	3 persons

Recipe type: Lunch Box recipes

Cuisine:  Indian cuisine

Ingredients Cabbage – 2 1/2 cups Cooked rice -1 cup Onions -1 no Green chili -1 no Garlic chopped -3 cloves Curry leaves Turmeric powder -1/2 tsp Salt -1/2 tsp Coriander leaves –few sprigs Seasoning Oil -1 bsp Mustard seeds -1/2 tsp Jeera seeds -1/2 tsp Channa dal -1tsp Urad dal -1tsp Curry leaves –few sprigs Hing -pinch

Method
1. Cook rice such that each grain is separate. Keep it aside till it is cooled. Heat Ghee/oil and add mustard seeds. When they start popping, add all the other ingredients followed by the onions.

2. Add the shredded cabbage, turmeric powder and salt. Sprinkle some water and close the lid. The cabbage will cook in about 5-7 minutes. Add some more water if the curry starts sticking to the pan.Add salt, 1/4 cup water (only if required, most cabbages leave lots of water while cooking, so be careful). 

3. Cover and cook till cabbage is done. Now add the rice little by little to the cooked cabbage curry and mix it with the back of a spatula (my grandmother's tip, so that the rice will not break or become mushy). I have a big wooden fork, so I use that when I make mixed rice like this. Switch off the heat. Add cooked rice and mix well.

Serving suggestions
Yogurt pachadi
Sweet potato fry
Spicy Chips

Notes

·         The ratio of rice to water will be 1:2 and ¼, but the same one whistle will be perfect.

·         Add cashews fried in little ghee to make it richer.