It's important to pack an interesting but nutritionally wholesome lunchbox for office or for your kids to take to school/college. It prevents between-meal snacking and consumption of junk food/a less-ideal outside meal.
Enjoy the flavours of South India in your dabba with Vani Sudarshan's recipe for simple rice rotis made with very few ingredients and packed with chutney.
Please find the recipe here: Rice Rotis With Coconut Chutney
Poonam Menon Mallick's sandwiches are filled with boneless chicken, crunchy carrots, beans, all bound together with mayonnaise and a sprinkle of oregano. A pinch of chilly flakes adds further zest.
Please find the recipe here: Chicken Sandwiches
Easy and satisfying, pre-boiled rice is scrambled with eggs, onions and spice, to whip up Dhanesh MS's ideal tiffin fare.
Please find the recipe here: Egg Rice
Brunch to go... Make Bhasmasur Raksha's spicy spinach-tomato-egg scramble, with minimum oil and wrap up wholegrain bread or rotis with it.
Please find the recipe here: Spinach Egg Scramble
A bit experimental, Deepali Gupta's take on pizza might reheat well in your tiffin box. It transforms lady's fingers into a tangy, pizza-inspired delight, finishing with a squeeze of lime juice, salt, oregano, chilly flakes.
Please find the recipe here: Tangy Pizza Bhindi
With a little kitchen magic, create tasty roti rolls from leftover chapatis. Lakshmi Grandhim's rolls call for simply sautéing chopped onions, green chillies, grated carrots, and tomatoes in a little oil until tender. Season and spread onto a chapati, roll it up, and lunch is in the bag.
Please find the recipe here: Chapati Roll
Whole green gram or sabut mung is boiled into a khichdi with rice and masalas as per Vasanta K's recipe. Excellent for a filling, healthy meal. Consider adding a few veggies too.
Please find the recipe here: Green Gram Khichdi
An exciting masoor dal or red lentil fry by RD Rangdal, with sauteed garlic, chilly powder, green coriander, can be filled in your lunchbox along with rotis or quinoa or red rice and voila noon-day khaana is taiyar.
Please find the recipe here: Red Dal Fry
A fast recipe to mollify your Chinese food longings by food blogger Sangita Agrawal, made with umpteen types of veggies and a Chinese tadka. Designed for office dabbas.
Please find the recipe here: Vegetable Fried Rice
Sweet figs in a salad, dressed with a garlic balsamic vinaigrette... A timeless mixing of sweet with salty -- figs, rocket, feta, onions -- is a heavenly and complex food pairing, courtesy Zelda Pande, great to take for lunch. Box enough of it and also a few slices wholegrain bread.
Please find the recipe here: Fig Rocket Salad