Plants for processing various vegetable, rice, cereals into ready-to-eat Indian meals can be set up on a turnkey basis. The Processing plant includes vegetable washing-peeling-cutting-size reduction, Cooking, final packaging in cans /retortable pouches and post filling retorting. Meals like Dal, Paneer Makhni, Aloo Matar, Kadhi, Chana, palak paneer, meat, chicken, fish, boiled rice can be prepared and packed in cans/retortable pouches/trays which can offer a shelf life of 6/12 months.