When I was engaged in Survey works for new road construction in North-Eastern India, couple of my fellow engineers and myself found it difficult to carry packed lunch with us. Lunch could not be prepared at that early hour as we used to start from our camp at 6:00 clock. It was very difficult to send lunch at noon also as we would be inside thing jungle about 6 to 7 kilometers from our camp. So we used to carry uncooked raw items and a pressure cooker with us and made our camping food in the jungle everyday. It took just half an hour to cook the food. It was simple and tasted good.

Here is the version of food we used to prepare during our camping days.

Step 1: Ingredients

This recipe will serve four people

One cup of Rice
Lentils, half the quantity of rice. you can mix few varieties for more taste.
Two medium sized onions
Two tomatoes
One large sized potato
Green chilies to your taste
Green vegetables. you can add any vegetables like green beans, carrot, radish and cabbage. Here I have used a small portion of cabbage.
Optional... a small piece of ginger and few garlic pods
A tablespoon of cooking oil
Optional... A tablespoon of masala powder
Salt to taste
Water, three times that of rice

Step 2: Wash Rice and Lentils

You can mix rice and lentils together. wash them in clean water and store separately

Step 3: Prepare Other Ingredients

Finely slice the tomatoes
Chop onions
Cut potato in to long pieces as used in french fries
Split green chilies in two
Finely chop Ginger and garlic
Chop cabbage or any other vegetable to choose to add

Step 4: Cooking Step 1

Place pressure cooker over medium heat and add cooking oil
Add chopped onions to the oil
Add split green chilies
And chopped ginger and garlic
Stir till above ingredients are properly cooked in oil.

Step 5: Cooking Step 2

Add potato pieces and cabbage to the cooker and stir fry for a minute.
Add chopped tomatoes
Add rice and lentil mix to the cooker
Add masala powder. This is optional, you can do without masala also.

Mix all ingredients together and cook for about two to three minutes

Step 6: Cooking Step 2

Now add measured quantity of water to the mix
Add salt to taste
Close the pressure cooker lid and cook for about five to six minutes or three times pressure release from the cooker
remove from heat and keep separately to cool