Monday, September 1, 2025

College room cookoff playbook

 Guide playbook

Food Menu

Aloo matar - https://youtube.com/shorts/RHtv44J36b8?si=csAkBPYQqDksUpkX

With rice or naan or bread

Pasta in rice cooker - https://youtube.com/shorts/xOF4Hdq9yV8?si=dWZTH9BjuwvPZ_ox

White pasta on Instapot

https://youtube.com/shorts/ZZy5HSkRhZc?si=3yjPeMSj5Uqt_60i

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DM_XJYYBrUM/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Sambar rice

Vegetable egg fried rice

Curd rice pickle papad

Puliyogyre rice

Bisi bele bath rice

Salad - Chopped cucumber, tomato, onion , With a dash of Lemon & Salt

Boiled eggs

 

Breakfast

Cereal milk

Bread Toast

Egg – Omlette, Sunny side, Boiled, Poached

 Sandwich maker Sandwiches


 

Recipes (add salt in all)

 

Tadka

Heat 1-2 spoon oil

When hot, add jeera and/or mustard seeds and wait for them to pop.

Then add wet stuff to cool the oil – like curry pata leaves, minced garlic, sliced green chillies,  onion, tomatoes (in this order)

 

Aloo mutter recipe

Microwave 2 potatoes. Then peel & chop potato as cubes.

Make tadka on pan.

Add washed Frozen peas & Chopped potato

 

Aloo Bhaja

Peel & chop 2 potatoes in long fries format.

Make tadka (without tomatoes). Add Potatoes. Stir from time to time. When potato is cooked, sprinkle salt.

 

Dal Fry

Boil Toor dal in Instapot with turmeric & salt & hing.

After dal is cooked, give it a stir to melt/mash all dal together.

On stove & pan, add Oil & tadka with jeera seeds, curry pata, garlic, cut red chilly.

Add onion, tomatoes & cover cook till it melts.

Add mashed dal & give a boil.

 

Vegetable Egg Fried Rice

Bag of frozen mixed veggies.
Wash rice in rice cooker. Add peas, salt, jeera, ghee/butter. 
Add water & cook rice.
Eat with Egg

Curd rice pickle papad

Make rice in rice cooker. When done & steaming, add salt, curd & water and mix together.

Give small tadka of oil, mustard seeds, urad (1sp), curry pata.

Add chopped apple, grapes or pomegranate.

 

Puliyogyre rice

Make rice in rice cooker. When done & steaming, mix MTR Puliypgyre paste & salt.

 

Bisi bele bath rice

Make dal & rice & peas & salt in Instapot. When done & steaming, add MTR Bisibelebath paste and mix.

 

MTR Sambar recipe

Boil Toor dal in Instapot with turmeric & salt & hing.

After cooked, give it a stir to melt all dal together.

On stove & pan, Oil & tadka with mustard seeds, curry pata, garlic, cut red chilly.

Add onion

Then add cut veggies (brinjal, drumstick, bhi NRI, beans, carrots, small potatoes, peas, Lima beans)

Then chopped tomatoes.

Let it melt, then add salt & Sambar powders.

When all mixed up, transfer pan contents to Instapot with dal. Cook it all for another round of Beans 15 minute mode.


 Sandwich maker Sandwich Fillings

Sliced tomatoes, boiled potato, cucumber. Chutney & butter on bread on the inside.
Butter bread & boiled egg slices with sprinkled salt & pepper.