30 Minutes Dinner Recipes and Ideas

Not always we are in a mood to cook, at times we might be short of time, other times we might be short of energy. For such situations, here is a healthy and quick meal idea. Idli served with sambar and coconut chutney!! Okay, this might look a bit elaborate but believe me it can be fixed in 30 minutes or so. We don’t need any special ingredients for this, not even fresh coconut for the coconut chutney. Instant sooji idli can be prepared in 15-20 minutes, sambar can be done effortlessly as it is a fuss-free sambar recipe and the coconut chutney doesn’t call for breaking or chopping coconut as it doesn’t call for any fresh coconut.

Further, it is important to work simultaneously to bring up a meal in 30 minutes. For this meal idea, you need to

• Soak semolina(sooji/rava) for idli and while it rests start preparing your sambar.
• While the sambar gets pressure cooked, do your chutney and put idlis for steaming.
• By the time idlis get steamed, temper the sambar.
• The chutney is done, sambar has been tempered and idlis have steamed. Demould them and tadaa, your dinner is ready.
• Now just dunk in soft idlis in hot sambar, top with coconut chutney and indulge!

30 Minutes Dinner Recipes

1. Instant Sooji Idli

The recipe gives perfectly soft and spongy idlis made using semolina (sooji/rava). When dipped in a bowl of hot sambar, sooji idli just absorbs it, making each bite of idli sambar so delectable. The conventional idlis made using rice and dal are certainly the best matrch for sambar, but even sooji idlis do proper justice to sambar.

View the recipe here.

2. Easy and quick sambar

There are 210904 sambar recipes, you know what I mean! This one is my favorite, as it just puts all the required ingredients in the pressure cooker in one go. Then we are just left with the tempering part. You can convert this recipe into a one-pot recipe if you don’t strain sambar. In that case, just add the tempering initially and then proceed with the recipe.

View the recipe here.

3. Coconut Chutney (without fresh coconut)

You are on the go, you plan to make idli sambar. Good decision! But idli sambar is incomplete without coconut chutney and coconut chutney is incomplete without coconut but not always do we have fresh coconut at home. No worries, just follow this recipe and be sorted!

View the recipe here.