Pack happiness in your lunch dabba or tiffin box. What's more thrilling than opening a delicious container of lunch in office? We offered you 10 ideas. Here's 12 more...
Try something quite different in your lunchbox -- Shristi Sahoo's chila or griddle-fried pancakes, made from buckwheat, spinach, grated carrots, green chillies and more. Totally yum.
Please find the recipe here: Buckwheat Chila
An inspired thought for a lunch would be Shweta Dwivedi's falafels. Your kids are sure to love them. Crisp on the outside and soft on the inside, send a few pita bread pockets along with a little ribboned salad.
Please find the recipe here: Falafels
Fill a bread roll or half a baguette with a mix of chopped/sliced raw vegetables, cheese, mayonnaise, mustard and cold meat and enjoy Zelda Pande's jalapeno sub rolls.
Please find the recipe here: Subway-Style Sandwiches
Mayur Sanap cooks up a variety of Indian greens and potatoes, ideal, with a few chapattis, for a school/office tiffin.
Please find the recipe here: Green Amaranth Sabji
As cheerful a choice for an office or school lunch as its colour, Nisha Singh's flavourful version utilises peanuts along with chillies, mustard seeds and small amounts of dal in the seasoning.
Please find the recipe here: Lemon Rice
A little bit of Konkani food can enter your lunchbox with Seema Nayak's bharela-baingan. Pack with rotis or a small amount of chaval. The small, round eggplants are stuffed with a fragrant mixture of coconut, spices, herbs, then slow-cooked to perfection.
Please find the recipe here: Stuffed Brinjal
Hansveen Sabharwal's eminently packable poha is plenty crunchy as it includes peanuts, along with onions, and spices.
Please find the recipe here: Crunchy Poha
What can be more satisfying than opening a lunch container full of a mushroom-paneer preparation, to be had with rotis or a little rice. Karen D'Souza's recipe has a delicate balance of spices and a creamy texture --it's delicious and will make your colleagues tuck into your dabba too.
Please find the recipe here: Shahi Paneer Mushroom Kurma
The bewitching aroma of a pulav with peas and ghee and spices will make your work day a happy one. Dhanashri Pardikar fills rice, green peas, and a blend of warming spices in a pressure cooker, and it's ready in no time. Carry a little pickle as an accompaniment or her beetroot raita.
Please find the recipe here: Peas Pulav
Chaat for lunch? An interesting idea. Pack the papdis in Romi Chatterjee's recipe separately and add in later. Makes for a light repast.
Please find the recipe here: Papri Chaat
Get in your or your child's daily quota of vegetables via this nutritious, easy-to-make pulav by Anubha Sawhney. Simply soak the rice, sauté chopped vegetables with aromatic spices, and cook everything together in a pressure cooker.
Please find the recipe here: Vegetable Pulav
Go very healthy and pack Ritu Abraham's filling and protein-rich salad. This vibrant dish combines four types of lentils/legumes -- green mung, lobiya (black-eyed peas), lal lobiya (red kidney beans), and chickpeas along with crisp diced vegetables, zesty green chillies, and a squeeze of lemon juice.
Please find the recipe here: Mixed Lentil Salad