Low-Calorie, Easy to Make Indian Dinner Recipes

Looking for healthy dinner options? Here are some low-calorie Indian dinner recipes by Swapnadeep Mukherjee, Executive Chef, The Metropolitan Hotel & Spa

Murgh Hara Dhaniya 

Serving Size:

2

Time:

25-30 minutes

Difficulty:

Medium

Ingredients

• Chicken 260 gm
• Green coriander 90 gm
• Spinach 132 gm 
• Jeera whole 0.5 gm
• Tomato 100 gm
• Salt to taste
• Ginger                                              13 gm
• Garlic                                                 10 gm
• Red chilli powder                               0.5 gm
• Olive oil                                              1 dessert spoon

Directions

1. Heat olive oil and add jeera, ginger & garlic and stir till it gets brown.
2. Add spinach paste and stir for a few minutes.
3. Add chicken, chopped tomato and coriander with 500 ml water.
4. Add salt to taste and cook till the chicken is tender

Bhutte ki Tikki

Serving Size:

2

Time:

15 minutes

Difficulty:

Easy

Ingredients

• Baby corn                           300 gm
• Potato pahari                        95 gm
• Ginger chopped                     15 gm
• Chilli green                            10 gm
• Olive oil                                   5 ml
• Salt                                        to taste
• Coriander leaves                   20 gm
• Yellow chilli powder                 5 gm
• Black cumin                             5 gm

Directions

1. Mix finely chopped blanched baby corn with boiled potato.
2. Add all ingredients, salt to taste & make a medium soft dough.
3. Divide the prepared dough into eight to ten equal portions. 
4. Wet your hand with a little water and flatten each portion, into a disk of two to three inches diameter. 
5. Pour olive oil into a pan and shallow fry the tikkis on medium flame until they turn golden brown. Garnish with bell peppers or any ingredient of your choice and mint chutney.

Kiwi Burfi

Serving Size:

2

Time:

25-30 minutes

Difficulty:

Easy

Ingredients

• Khoya                          80 gm
• Ghee                              5 gm
• Kiwi sliced                    20 gm
• Sugar                             10 gm

Directions

1. Grate khoya and put it into a pan on slow fire.
2. Keep stirring and add sugar & ghee 
3. Mix it well & keep stirring till it melts.
4. Take it out from the fire and spread it on a plate greased with ghee.
5. Allow it to get a little hard and then cut it with a knife into smaller pieces.
6. Keep sliced kiwi in between three pieces.

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