Lunch with a difference

Having met the lovely owner of Dhaba Lane at an event we ran recently she was kind enough to let me try some of the delicious healthy curries they offer as a lunch delivery option - after all you never know when we might need a working lunch in the world of food tech startups.

Here is the menu we were treated to - a normal portion of each easily went round between three of us for lunch with a little to spare so I had a number of grateful colleagues too!

Menu from Dhaba Lane

Kadai Paneer: Peppers, Onions and Paneer in a thick tomato gravy. The fresh peppers add spicy and sweet flavour to the spices.
Dhaba Chicken: Chicken curry as found on Indian highways. This is simplicity at its best, with freshly ground spices.
Paneer, pepper & gobi paratha: Hand rolled stuff flatbread, its like Paneer pizza flavours stuffed in a paratha, without the grease! We use wholemeal flour.
Salad: Fresh mix leaves tossed with yellow split lentils, spinach, minted courgettes and oil free roasted cauliflower & broccoli. Served with home-made dry mango chutney.

The Dhaba chicken curry and stuffed paratha were my favourite dishes and the ones I would go back to order again. They were both nicely spiced - as you'll remember from previous posts I'm a bit of a chilli fiend - and were even better when pimped up with a bit of the super hot chilli sauce that accompanied the dishes.

The salad made a tasty side and, although I'm not a lover of yellow split peas, they went really well with the rest of the dish a made a filling side to share or even a salad in its own right. The paneer curry was delicious but a bit on the mild side for me. My colleague who prefers to steer clear of spicy dishes loved it.

It made a lovely change for lunch and everything was really clean and fresh tasting. Its hard to find healthy options to eat at work and a healthy curry is an even more unusual find so well worth checking out!