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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do this often. Today I made rice, dal, fish curry, fried spicy potatoes, and butter-paneer in less than 15 minutes. Fed 6 adults and 2 kids

1) Rice and daal was cooked together in my pressure cooker.  Daal was tempered with cumin seeds, ghee, asoephotida powder and garlic slices.

2) Spicy potatoes - sizzled some dry ground spices in a pan with ghee, (coriander, cumin seeds, turmeric, red chilly powder and salt) with boiled peeled small potatoes. Served with squeeze of lemon and chopped coriander leaves.

3) Butter paneer - Simmered cooked pureed onion-garlic paste with organic home-made creamy tomato soup. Dunked frozen fried paneer in it, 2 heapng tbsn of MDH butter chicken masala, dried fenugreek leaves and a generous pour of heavy cream.

4) Fish curry - Fried fish steaks added to frozen premade mustard-onion masala. Add a little water and simmer for 4-5 minutes to make a thin curry. Add a bit of sour tamarind paste (from concentrate) in water and add to the curry to give the tangy taste.

Kept the salad simple - just sliced cucumber sprinkled with salt.  And I nuked pre-made rotis and spread some kerrygold butter on it to keep it soft and delicious.   All of this in 15 minutes.

I do most of my prep work for food during the weekend and every month I make huge amounts of premade sauces and masalas so that every meal is under 10 minutes. Te best part is that I can cook up a feast to feed any guest who comes to our house unexpectedly because I have the building blocks ready.

This is similar to what the OP did, in that she used a lot of prepped food to make dinner. I don't buy prepped food from the store. I prep the food myself so that I can control the quantity, menu, cost, quality of  ingredients etc.   [/quote]
I could never eat that much curry and spices in a given week. I like more variety in flavors.
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These all have different spices and flavors. Not a good look for you.

[b]That said, if 10 minutes doesn't include hours spent prepping components on a previous day, yeah, I make tons of 10 minute meals too. [/b]Like tonight I made homemade pizza and creamed spinach by warming up the leftover homemade pizza I made Monday and spinach from yesterday. [/quote]

Same here.  I routinely make meals to keep in the freezer - black bean soup, meatballs and gravy, ropa vieja, pork and black beans,  mapo tofu - and can heat them up in 10 minutes.  But that's not what anyone means when they refer to a 10 minute meal.  [/quote]

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