Putting together a delicious breakfast, lunch or dinner is a challenge many of us face at home. With seasonal ingredients and our growing palates across regional Indian cuisines and international cuisines, Archana's Kitchen is constantly working on creating meal plate ideas where we combine various regional cuisines to make fun and delicious meal plates. These meal ideas can be for a fusion between regional cuisine in india an the breakfast again will be a fusion between indian and continental cuisines. 

You will find South Indian Recipes, North Indian Recipes, Continental Breakfast Recipes, Continental Main Course Recipes, South indian Breakfast Recipes, North Indian Breakfast Recipes and a whole lot more. Go ahead and use these meal plate ideas and cook wonderful dishes for your family. 

 This Vietnamese meal will leave your tastebuds absolutely satisfied. Customised to suit the Indian palate, this meal of a Vietnamese style chicken curry served with caramelised onions and chili rice with a side of flavourful lemongrass prawn skewers. 

Weekends are always special for all of us, as it is the time to spend with family and friends and enjoy some good food. Here we have made an interesting menu with Persian Style Chicken Stew, Herbed Brown Rice, Roasted Potato Salad & Marble Cake. 

Make this lip smacking and wholesome Coorg Breakfast - Thalia Puttu, Kootu Curry and Ellu Pajji for a weekend and serve it along with a cup of coffee and bowl of fruits.

A delicious meal with no complex flavours, this Kashmiri meal is simplicity at its best. Yakhni Mutton served along with some saffron & fennel rice with a side of some Kashmiri saag and dahi baingan. 

If you are a vegetarian, you can skip the mutton and add either Kashmiri Style Rajma Gogji Recipe - Kidney Beans & Turnip Curry or Kashmiri Monj Haakh Recipe - Knol Khol Flavored With Asafoetida

Each of us absolutely love our regional cuisines, the culture we come from, its corresponding food habits , it is something each of us have been brought up with.  Here is one such meal from the Parsi cuisine, that's absolutely finger licking good.  A creamy Badam nu gosht, served along with rotli and a lovely Masaledar tuvar ni dal to go along with some Vagharela chawal and some salad by the side. *Slurp*

Here is a delicious lunch meal plate that you can prepare for your Sunday meal. We have plated for you a Malvani Fish curry, Konkani Style Pomfret fry, steamed rice & Sol kadhi by the side. This meal is best had on your weekends when you have the mood to get into the kitchen and cook some amazing dishes for your family members. 

Here's a healthy and inviting Continental meal for you which includes some delicious recipes like Spicy Mango Lime Grilled Chicken, Lemon Parsley Quinoa and Pan Roasted Zucchini & Mushroom. This is also a great dinner meal which you can have after your evening workouts.

We all love a fabulous South Indian Meal ! A plate full of South Indian dishes like Thakkali Rasam, Cabbage Poricha Kootu, Vazhaipoo Podimas, Kathirikai Poondu Pirattal, Pachai Payaru Payasam, Steamed Rice, Elai Vadam and Curd, sounds delicious right? Therefore, we got you this comforting and satisfying meal plate which you can make for your weekend Lunch or Dinner. 

Here's a delicious and mouthwatering Continental meal plate which includes Tomato Basil Chicken Curry, Jalapeno Cilantro Lime Rice, Pan Roasted Herbed Baby Potato With Vegetables and Coleslaw Salad on Sliced Apple. This meal plate is inviting and is perfect to serve during weekends to your friends and family or make it if you have guests coming home for dinner.

A lip smacking meal with delicious prawn curry made along with drumsticks served with some steamed rice, a crunchy cabbage carrot poriyal and a flavourful raw mango pachadi will leave your taste buds in absolute glee. 

Here we have an exciting meal bowl of Malaysian Style Chicken Rendang served along with a Fried Egg, Pickled onions, Steamed Rice. It is good to try out something new once in a while for your weekend meals. This will help to understand the different flavours across the world. 

Here is a mouthwatering dinner meal plate with Chicken Rezala, Punjabi Dal Tadka, Dhaba Style Ghee Rice and Begun Bhaja. You can make this meal late even on your weekdays as it is simple to make and does not require much of prep work. 

Here is a mouthwatering Meal Plate which you can make for weekend lunch. It includes some delicious recipes such as Mughlai Aloo Lajawab, Spicy Soya Bhurji, Gujarati Methi Thepla and Carrot Raita Recipe With Peanuts. 

Here's a delicious and mouthwatering Everyday Meal Plate which includes Madras Lamb Curry, Ghee Rice, Carrot, Radish & Peanut Salad with Lemon Recipe, Curd, Elai Vadam and sliced Onions.

What more can one ask for, than a healthy homemade meal packed for lunch to be eaten at office or school ? Here is one such meal of a delicious Hariyali Gobi sabzi along with a mixed millet phulka. Adding a bowl of dahi/curd to this meal is always a good idea. 

Have a special dinner menu with your loved ones by preparing a nice flavourful Thai Curry with Green Beans & Sweet Potato served along with Herbed Rice with Green Peas and Steamed Vegetable. Weekends are the only time we get to stay at home and plan on cooking a special meal for yourself and your family members. 

Here is a delicious and wholesome meal plate which has Chettinad Style Tomato Vermicelli Upma, Dhaniya Pudina Chutney and Bananas that you can make for a healthy breakfast. This meal plate is filled with necessary vitamins and minerals that are required for healthy body and mind and will also keep you full till lunch. You can also serve this to your kids, as the love the tanginess from tomato in the Vermicelli Upma.

A middle eastern dish that has been popularised In India and is most often served as a snack during the evening times. The chicken is marinated well in a garlicky yogurt flavoured marinate and then grilled till the chicken tenderises and is cooked. The cooked meat is then wrapped inside a pita bread with creamy hummus spread and pickled cucumber, carrot & green chilli. 

A lip smacking meal that your family will definitely appreciate. This meal is different from the usual. A Thai meal with Thai Yellow Chicken Curry to go with some steamed rice, served along with crispy crunchy vegetable tempura and a sweet dish of the classic Taiwanese Pineapple Cake. 

Here's a delicious Everyday Meal Plate which you can make for your weekdays or weekend lunch. This meal plate includes Gujarati Methi Thepla, Carrot And Capsicum Sabzi, Papad Ki Sabzi, Beetroot, Carrot & Cucumber Salad with Peanuts and Maharashtrian Green Chilli Thecha.

A classic combination of Puri Chole where we have a Bitter Gourd Peel Puri served along with Chana made with Palak & Kala Chana. Make it a complete meal, by serving it along with Pickled Onions, Aam Ras & Chaas.

What a perfect way to start your morning meals with a High Protein Chickpeas and Potato Hash Browns,  the recipes calls for softly cooked chickpeas that are mixed along with potatoes, mixed herbs and seasoning to bring out the flavour & taste. The Hash brown are the best and easy way to make a quick breakfast on a Sunday. Weekends are the time you would want to relax and also you would love to cook something special for your family members. 

A complete meal that can be served at your dinner parties or just as a fancy meal for your family during the weekend. This meal is a special one packed with flavours and different textures. The delicious Layered Paneer Butter Masala Biryani served with a crunchy onion raita,  Crispy Paneer Pakora and the famous Rajasthani Kalmi Vada Recipe. When had a long with some refreshing Pudina lassi and finished off with a lip smacking Mango Sabudana Kheer ! An absolute winner, this meal is not something you can refuse.  

All of us must strive to make every meal healthy in order for our bodies to absorb nutrients from the correct sources and sustain us through the day. Continued routines in eating healthy will help every one of us to lead a long and zestful life. With this in mind, we at Archana's Kitchen come up with meal plates that you can recreate in your homes to provide yourself and your family with the best of what Indian Cuisine has to offer.