100 Indian Tiffin recipes for Breakfast or Dinner - to make your meal planning easy!!

Thinking of what to cook for breakfast or dinner is the most toughest job for me in this world!! And I find it's a common problem for everybody else too... People at home get bored of the usual items if repeated too often. The moment breakfast is served, Sandy will ask what's for lunch and when lunch is served, "what's for dinner today?". I would be like "Somebody please do the meal plan for me!!".

I can manage to decide to cook something for lunch, depending on the vegetables available at home but not for breakfast! In this case I envy north indians because they don't have to think so much... roti and a sabji everyday and for all the three meals. We do cook roti/chapati for dinner, but not everyday. Again thinking of what sabji to make for roti is another problem.

So I am going to have a collection of vegetarian tiffin (light meal) items here, with a link to their recipes. So that we can just bookmark this page and drop by to select an item to cook. Else I would give this list to my hubby and ask him choose everytime based on how long he can wait for me to make it. Half of my tension will be reduced... ooof!!

If you feel that some item is missed out, please comment below so that it is helpful for others like me suffering from this cookingtiffinmania!!

I have tried to group it based on the preparation time and cooking time. Because being a working woman, I don't do much planning ahead of time except for special occassions... like soaking the ingredients overnight, grinding the batter, leaving it to ferment for a while, etc. But I do grind my own dosa/idli batter once in two weeks and stock it in the fridge. Saves me most of the times :)

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I would also do a similar post soon for choosing sidedish/gravy/curry recipe for Roti.

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Dosa Varieties:
(If you have the Dosa batter ready, these are pretty much instant recipes else you will need overnight prep time) :
Prep time <15 mins + Cooking time < 20 minutes:
1. Plain Dosa
2. Masala Dosa
3. Rava Dosa
4. Gothuma / Wheat Dosa
5. Onion Uttappam
6. Oats Dosa
7. Masala Oats Dosa
8. Vegetable Spring Roll Dosa
9. Ragi Dosa
10. Maida Dosa
11. Instant Tomato Dosa

Prep time > 2 hours + Cooking time > 20 mins :
1. Tomato Dosa
2. Adai
3. Aappam
4. Cauliflower Masala Dosa

Requires Overnight Preparation:
1. Sponge Dosa
2. Andhra Pesarattu Dosa

Other Tiffin Varieties:
Prep time <15 mins + Cooking time < 20 minutes:
1. Idli
2. Rava Idli (You need fruit salt for instant version, other version with cooking sodahere)
3. Rava Kichidi/ Kara Bath
4. Poori
5. Batura
6. Palak poori
7. Maida poori
8. Idiyappam
9. Poha
10. Pongal - My Recipe here
11. Oats Pongal
12. Oats Upma
13. Arisi Upma (you need to have rice rava ready)
14. Rava Upma
15. Gothuma / Broken Wheat Upma
16. Semiya Upma
17. Bread Upma
18. Idli Upma (ofcourse with left over idlis)
19. Aval Upma (Flattened rice Upma)
20. Puli / Tamarind Aval
21. Thayir Semiya / Curd Semiya Bath
22. Akki roti/ Rice flour Patties
23. Kuzhi Paniyaaram with Dosa Batter
24. Upma Kozhukattai
25. Kara Kozhukattai
26. Puttu
27. Dhokla
28. Ragi Puttu

North-Indian Tiffin Items:
1. Chappati
2. Phulkha
3. Aalu Parata
4. Cheese Pav Bhaji
5. Gobi Parata
6. Methi Parata

Chinese & Continental Tiffin Items:
1. Chinese Vegetable Noodles
2. Eggless French Toast
3. Cheese chilli garlic toast
4. Veg Momos
5. Cheese Macaroni Pasta
6. Indian Masala Pasta
7. Eggless Pancakes
8. Taco Pasta Salad
9. Veg Burrito
10. Indo-Chinese Vegetable Hakka Noodles NEW!!

Prep time > 2 hours + Cooking time > 20 mins:
1. Ulunthu Vada / Medhu Vada
2. Parotta
3. Naan without yeast - My recipe here

Requires Overnight Preparation:
1. Idli/Dosa Batter
2. Sabudhana Kichidi
3. Kuzhi Paniyaram
4. Kanchipuram Idli

Sidedish for Tiffin Items:
Prep time < 15 mins + Cooking time < 20 mins:
1. Idli Sambar / Tiffin Sambar
2. Kosmalli
3. Vengaya Gotsu
4. Brinjal Gotsu
5. Onion Tomato Gotsu
6. Vegetable Kurma/ Stew
7. Poori masala
8. Kumbakonam Kadappa
9. Chettinadu Therakkal

Prep time > 2 hrs + Cooking time > 20 mins:
1. Vada curry

Requires Overnight Preparation:
1. Chenna masala/ Chole for batura

Chutney:
1. Coconut chutney
2. Onion Chutney
3. Mint chutney - north indian
4. Mint chutney - South Indian
5. Onion Tomato Chutney
6. Red Coconut Chutney
7. Peanut Chutney

Look out for more additions to the list.
I have not included any baking recipes or sandwich recipes over here.
What is your favorite breakfast dish? Do comment below...
Happy Cooking!!

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