Dinner is one of those meals in the day when every dietician, nutritionist and doctors say to eat light and healthy food. What We describe as a “food hangover” happens after eating a really huge, extravagant dinner. Eating a huge, high-sugar or high-fat meal at night overwhelms your digestive system. Your body doesn’t get enough sleep during the night, which causes it to be slower the next day both physically and intellectually. Keeping a balance in this situation is crucial. Every night, consume a small, healthy dinner that includes carbs to see how quickly you fall asleep. The next day, you’ll feel upbeat, joyful, and full of life. Additionally, it will help you shed some weight as you go along by clearing your intestines.
Here is what you can have in your dinner
1. Protein fulfilled –
You have to eat dinner, eat food items which are packed with protein. You can consumer pulses, eggs, chicken, milk, paneer, etc which consists huge amount of protein. Sprouts and beans are also known for the protein power they have. Dishes you can make for protein are – Fried dal, boiled eggs, paneer paratha, hot milk, chicken masala, etc.
2. Vegetable on your plate –
It is important that you keep track of your veggie intake because there are many vegetables out there which are high on all the nutrients present out there. You can make vegetable salads with all the vegetables high in nutrients and even add other fillings to it such as milk or tofu. Vegetables are light on stomach as well so it will help in eating a lighter dinner as well.
3. One-pot dinners –
There are many options such as rice and pasta which can be made in one pot. They are healthy as well as can be made easily. For rice you can use brown rice, and for pasta you can use whole wheat pasta. Upma and poha can be eaten for dinner as well.
Here are some recipes which you can use for a healthy meal dinner
1. Poha
Yes, we all know that poha is a breakfast recipe but there is no rule that it cannot be eaten in night as well. It is a very easy-to-cook dish and can be made in 10 minutes and lets not forget how light and healthy it is.
Ingredient –
- Poha
- Onion
- Potato
- Tomato
- Curry leaves
- Peanuts
- Mustard seeds
- Green chilli
- Salt
- Lemon
- Corriander
- Sugar
- First rinse the poha thoroughly. After washing it remove all the water and let it be for 10minutes. Add salt , lemon and a little bit of sugar to the rinsed poha.
- In a pan add oil and let it heat, once it is heated add mustard seeds, green chili, and peanuts to it. Saute them for 30 seconds. After which you need to add onion to it and saute it for 2 to 3 minutes. Add turmeric and salt to onion. And saute for 1 minute again.
- Next step is to put potato and fry it until the potatoes are soft and easily breakable and eatable.
- Next you have to put tomatoes in it saute them only 2 minutes make sure that the potatoes remain in solid form and do not turn mushy.
- Once it is done you have to add poha to the vegetable mixture , mix the poha for 2 minutes add coriander leaves to it and tada your poha is ready!
2. Bhindi ki Sabji and roti
Ingredients
- Bhindi
- Jeera
- Onion
- Dhaniya powder
- Red chilli powder
- Salt
- Turmeric
- Garam masala
- Oil
- In a pan heat oil and once it is heated add jeera to it. Saute the jeera.
- Add onion to the oil and saute until golden brown.
- Add bhindi to the pan with salt and turmeric. And saute the bhindi for atleast 5 to 7minutes.
- Once the bhindi is cooked add other masalas such as red chili and dhaniya powder.
- Saute for 60s and add garam masala to the vegetable. Saute for 30s and tada your bhindi is ready.
3. Aloo pyaaz
Ingredients
- Potato
- Onion
- Jeera
- Dhaniya powder
- Red chilli powder
- Salt
- Jeera powder
- Garam masala
- In a pan heat oil and once it is heated add jeera to it. Saute the jeera.
- Add onion to the oil and saute until golden brown.
- Add Potato to the pan with salt and turmeric. And saute the potato for atleast 5 to 7minutes. Until it is soft and unbreakable
- Once the potato and onion is cooked add other masalas such as red chili and dhaniya powder and jeera powder.
- Saute for 60s and add garam masala to the vegetable. Saute for 30s and tada your Aloo pyaaz is ready.
Here were some of the recipes which you can cook in your dinner time and are healthy as well. It all depends on usage of every product. You can make your item healthy by using less oil and masalas.