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One Pot Meals-One Pot Indian Recipes (Vegetarian)

November 25, 2011 by PadhuSankar 15 Comments

Working women, students, bachelors, busy women out there – this post is specially for you all . On days, when you come back home, after a hectic day, tired and drained with no energy to slog in the kitchen nor do you feel like going out or use any ready to cook meals, yet you want a comforting meal without much efforts. Moreover eating out not only drains your pocket but also has its own health hazards. Here is an answer to all your problems –One Pot meals – No fuss – Quick – Easy – Less ingredients – only 1 pot to wash.What more do you want?? Go ahead and prepare healthy and scrumptious meals in a jiffy at the comforts of your home. Even beginners can start with one pot dishes with confidence.

one pot mealsThe most simplest and the most easiest of all, prepared with ingredients available all through the year. Quick, comforting one pot dishes list below-

Packed with vitamins and minerals

Tomato rice

Vegetable Pulao (vegetable rice)

Easy Vegetable Biryani (using rice cooker or pressure cooker)

Peas Pulao

Vegetable Fried Rice

Moong dal rice


Mushroom Pulao

Sweet Corn Pulao

Mushroom Biryani

Mint Pulao

Lemon Rice

Curd rice with vegetables

Bisi bela bath recipe

Brinjal rice

Baby corn rice

Carrot rice

Cauliflower Rice

Methi Pulao

Capsicum Masala rice

Vendhaya Keerai sadam

Vegetable Pulao -2 (with garlic and tomato)

Raw Mango rice


Tomato Pulao


Quick Vegetable rice (with brown rice)

Andhra Puliyodharai 

Mint Pulao 

Bagala Bath

Channa Pulao

Peas Pulao (pattani sadam with step wise pictures)

Gooseberry rice

Corn capsicum pulao 

Easy Vegetable Rice

Raw mango rice (Andhra style)

Mushroom Fried Rice  with Vegetable manchurian

Broccoli Rice

Beetroot Pulao

Cracked wheat sambar sadam

Kashmiri Pulao

Tindora Rice (kovakkai sadam)

Karuveppilai Sadam (curry leaves rice)

Persian Dill Rice

One pot Cooker Veg Biryani

Millet Pulao 

Keerai Sadam

Kadamba sadam (no onion no garlic recipe)

Coconut Milk Rice

Also find few Protein packed One pot meals 

Sambar sadam

Rajma Pulao ( Kidney beans rice)

Red beans rice

Paneer Pulao

Moong dal Khichdi

Soya Chunk Pulao

Vegetable Khichdi

Mushroom Paneer Biryani

Potato Capsicum Pulao 

Spinach Khichdi 

Egg Fried Rice 

Tawa Pulao (Mumbai’s popular fast food)

Garlic Rice 

Schezwan Fried Rice 

Double Beans Pulao 

Arisi Paruppu Sadam (Coimbatore Style)

Quinoa Pilaf with Pinto Beans

Kashmiri Pulao (with fruits)

Mochai Kottai Biryani 

More one pot meals 

Beetroot rice 

Bulgur Khichdi 

Bulgur Pulao

Dal Khichdi 

Panchratna Dal Khichdi with brown Rice

Egg Biryani 

Panchratna Dal Khichdi 

Urad dal Rice 

Gujarati Khichdi 

Bottle gourd Rice 

Pepper Jeera Rice (milagu jeeraga sadam)

Persian Dill Rice

Karnataka Style Vangi baath

Methi Khichdi 

Green Pulao with coconut milk

Other filling one pot meals


Cracked wheat khichdi

Thayir semiya

Aval Pulao (poha packed with vegetables)

Vegetable Noodles

Couscous with vegetable sauce

Barley Spinach Khichdi

Foxtail Millet Khichdi



Cracked Wheat Sambar Sadam 


Oats Bisi Bela Bath 

Quinoa Pilaf with nuts

Bulgur Pulao 

Bulgur Khichdi 

Couscous with cauliflower and peas

Curry Leaves Rice 

Bulgur Biryani 

Couscous with Mushroom and peas 

Quinoa Tomato Bath 

Quinoa Mushroom Stuffed Bellpepper


Quinoa Stuffed Tomatoes 


Quinoa with Beans and corn 


Lemon Couscous 

Polenta with vegetables


Bulgur with peas and mint 


Couscous with sweet corn


Coconut couscous with raisins 


Oat Khichdi 


Curd Oats 

Orzo Pasta with tomato and bell pepper

Pasta in tomato sauce (red pasta)

More to come. Stay tuned. If you found this post useful, I would really love it if you pin it or share it with your Facebook fans or Twitter followers or Google+ circles today. All it takes is a simple click on the “pin it” “like,” “share,” “tweet,” or Google+ buttons below the post. It will keep me motivated. Thank you for visiting Padhuskitchen.

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Comments

  1. Santosh Bangar

    November 26, 2011 at 9:23 am

    good information

    Reply
  2. schmetterlingwords

    November 27, 2011 at 9:48 am

    A wealth of informative and useful recipes in one page. Thanks 🙂

    Reply
  3. Anonymous

    May 25, 2012 at 9:54 am

    Dear Padhu,

    I simply love your website….

    Cheers!!

    Reply
  4. vani

    August 31, 2012 at 7:34 am

    Hi,
    I can say this is the bets site i have evr seen.
    please add curry recipes for lunch box, will be good and easy for Working womans.

    Reply
  5. Eleanor Gossett

    October 26, 2012 at 8:14 am

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    Reply
  6. Hari

    January 6, 2013 at 5:33 pm

    for me pls try microwave receipes tooooo pls

    Reply
  7. Geeta Krishna

    January 14, 2013 at 9:44 am

    Could you suggest one-pot meals without rice too – something in the soup variety that a working woman can put on the table to serve a hungry family during cold winters (when you're too lazy to lay out a spread on the table, AND want to cut down on rice?)

    Reply
  8. Siri

    July 24, 2014 at 12:47 am

    Absolutely fabulous!!! I am a doctor & am torn between cooking healthy food & time. Thanks a lot, really appreciate your effort Padhu!!!

    Reply
  9. Edwin Kiran Kumar

    March 25, 2015 at 6:12 pm

    A big Thank You from US! 🙂

    Reply
  10. bhuvaneswari subramanian lucknow

    December 7, 2015 at 8:27 am

    awesome idea. great job. It is really helpful to me. Before find out this post I was really feeling giddiness to get idea what to prepare, how to prepare, because the in timing going to office is fixed. the out time is not fixed. Returning back from office I was confused what to do, is there any easy preparation of food and go for bed earlier and get soon. Here the way I found out. Very much grateful to you.

    Reply
  11. Abhimanyu Veer

    July 16, 2016 at 8:09 pm

    Great effort. Everyone needs to learn to cook healthy good and Indian food is so rich and diverse, and easy too. Loved the Indian recipes and shared with others. Thanks for doing a great job!

    Reply
  12. Tarika Vaswani

    July 21, 2016 at 3:54 pm

    OMG! Thank you SO much for this post. I have just not been able to manage a long day at work + the cooking…but now looks like I will finally be able to do so!

    Reply
  13. Sangeetha Sundaram

    January 4, 2017 at 6:05 am

    Love your recipes. Pls keep posting

    Reply
  14. Anjali Datar

    July 3, 2017 at 7:33 am

    Amazing list of rice preparations. I have always cooked your recipes, some are very similar to what my mum used to make. Well done.
    Thanks

    Reply
  15. Deepa Kamali

    April 13, 2018 at 6:54 am

    My cooking guide.. love you

    Reply

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