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Healthy and Delicious Recipes for Your Lunch and Dinner

As we say “health is wealth”, it is essential to be diet conscious and eat healthy and delicious recipes regularly.  Your diet should contain nutrients, minerals, protein, vitamins and a good amount of fiber in order to boost your metabolism. Good food also results in reducing anxiety and stress. When you eat healthily you give out positive vibrations and make your surroundings healthy.

It is important to follow a healthy diet and work out daily in order to stay fit and young. Our body becomes lazy and inactive if we do not exercise regularly.

However, we all love to have dessert after our meal. Don’t wait and order a cake from the birthday cakes delivered melbourne. You can also book one for your special ones on their special days. It is a great idea to express your love by sending gifts and a cake to your loved ones.

Now coming to our healthy recipes for lunch and dinner.

1.	Olive and Mushroom Curry Recipe

1. Olive and Mushroom Curry: Recipe

Ingredients: 1 tsp oil, 1 inch ginger, 5 cloves of garlic, 3 dried red chilies, 1 onion; roughly chopped, 2 tomatoes; chopped, 12-15 cashews, 1 cup water, ½ tsp salt, 1 tbsp butter, 6-8 mushrooms; chopped, 5-7 olives, ½ tbsp turmeric powder, ½ tsp sugar, ½ tsp red chilly powder, 1 tsp black salt, 1/3 cup fresh cream, salt to taste, 1 tbsp ketchup.

Step 1: Firstly, heat oil in a pan. Now, add in the ginger, garlic; chopped and chilies. Let it cook for a minute and now, add in onions. Cook the onions nicely until they start turning into golden brown color. Now, add in tomatoes and cook for a minute., add cashews, water and salt cook till the tomatoes become mushy. Now, cool it and blitz to a smooth paste.

Step 2: Now, melt butter in a pan, add mushrooms and cook till they turn brown, and add in the olives, add the pasta  and add in all the other ingredients and cook for 2-4 mins.

Step 3: Now, take it off heat, finish with olives, and a drizzle of fresh cream.

Your Olive and Mushroom Curry is ready to serve!

Pan-Fried Rice recipe

2. Pan-Fried Rice: Recipe

Ingredients: 1 tsp vegetable oil, 1 onion; chopped, 2 green chilies, 4 cloves of garlic; chopped, 1 tsp ginger; grated, 2 stalk celery; chopped, 2 cups blanched veggies (carrots, broccoli, baby corn, bell pepper and French beans), 1 tbsp vegetable stock powder, 2 cups water, ½ tsp vinegar, salt to taste, 2 tbsp corn flour, mixed with 4 tbsp water, spring onions; chopped.

For the rice: 1/3 cup rice; boiled, 1 tbsp light soy sauce, 1tbsp vegetable oil.

Step 1: Firstly, heat oil in a pan. Then, add in 1 onion; chopped, 2 green chilies, 4 cloves of garlic; chopped, 1 tsp ginger; grated, and 2 stalk celery; chopped. Then, sauté it for a minute.

Step 2: Now, add in all the veggies: 2 cups blanched veggies (carrots, broccoli, baby corn, bell pepper and French beans), 1 tbsp vegetable stock powder, 2 cups water, ½ tsp vinegar, salt to taste, and let it cook for 2 mins on a medium heat. Add in the corn flour mixed with 4 tbsp water and let it cook for 4-5 mins on medium flame.  

Step 3: Then, pour in soy sauce to the boiled rice and mix it. Now, heat oil in a pan. Then, add in the rice and let it fry for 4-5 mins. Lastly, mix the veggies into rice. You can add coriander; finely chopped to garnish.

Substitutes:

  • Vegetable stock powder- Maggi magic cube
  • Light soy sauce- salt and ½ tsp dark soy sauce
  • Veggies- carrots, mushroom, spring onion, sweet corn, capsicum, spinach, and cabbage.

Your Pan-Fried Rice is ready to serve!

Vegan Mee Goreng Recipe

3. Vegan Mee Goreng: Recipe

Ingredients: 4 tbsp light soy sauce, 4 tbsp brown sugar, 1 tbsp garlic, ¼ tsp pepper, 2 tbsp light soy sauce, 2 tbsp dark soy sauce, 1 tbsp ketchup, 1 tsp sesame oil, 1 tbsp chilly, 150 g noodles; boiled, 200 g tofu, 1 tbsp oil, 1 tbsp garlic; chopped, 1 spring onion whites and greens chopped, 1 cup of cabbage; thinly sliced.

Step 1: Firstly, cook 4 tbsp light soy sauce, 4 tbsp brown sugar, 1 tbsp garlic, and ¼ tsp pepper on high heat for 2-3 mins or till it reduces into ½.

Step 2: Now, heat the oil in a pan. Then, add garlic and spring onion white sauté for 30 secs. Add in spring onion greens and cabbage cook the cabbage is done. Now, add in noodles and the sauce.

Step 3: Then, mix this well. Add in tofu. Now, toss this a couple of times. Serve this hot.

Substitutes:

  • Brown sugar- Normal grain sugar
  • Sesame oil- Vegetable oil
  • Tofu- Paneer

Your Vegan Mee Goreng is ready to serve!

Conclusion

The recipes contain a lot of green vegetables and a good amount of nutrients. I’m sure that you will love it. You can always prepare olive mushroom curry for lunch and have it with a whole-wheat tortilla. Hope you like all our recipes and try them out at the earliest. You can also treat yourself to a dessert by booking your dessert from the best birthday cake delivery in melbourne.

These three recipes are absolutely delicious and mind-blowing. We recommend you to surely prepare this at your home and enjoy healthy living.