Six easy-to-make healthy breakfast ideas

A great day begins with a good breakfast. While many of us have taken to ready-to-eat packaged stuff or stick to the bread-butter routine due to various reasons, Payal Banka gives you some simple but equally healthy breakfast ideas from traditional kitchens that can help you break the monotony. You can also try the twists for added nutrition. The ingredients are close to nature and give you a total experience

Poha

Ingredients

Soaked poha - 50 gm
Chopped carrot - 1 small
Chopped beans - 5-8 pieces
Chopped onion - 1 small
Chopped tomato - 1 small
Peas - 10-15
Grated ginger, chopped green chillies, curry leaves, chopped coriander leaves for taste
Juice of 1 lemon

Procedure

- In a pan, heat 1 teaspoon of oil and add mustard seeds. Once they start splattering, add curry leaves, green chillies, grated ginger and all chopped vegetables except tomato. Add salt to taste and cover it with a lid. Let the veggies steam.

- After the veggies become soft, add turmeric powder and soaked poha. Cover with a lid and allow it to cook for another fi ve minutes. Let the poha become soft. Add lemon juice, 1 teaspoon sugar, salt (only as per poha) chopped coriander leaves and chopped tomato. Mix well and serve hot.

Pesarattu

Ingredients

- Soaked green split moong dal - 50 gm

- Grated ginger, salt, chopped green chillies, chopped coriander leaves

- For stuffing - 1 small carrot grated, some cabbage grated, 20 gm paneer

Procedure

- For stuffi ng - In a pan, add 1 teaspoon oil, mustard seeds, curry leaves, add all the grated veggies and paneer and salt to taste, also add a little black pepper and mix well.

- For pesarattu - Mix all the ingredients and grind in a grinder. Make a dosa out of this batter. Top this with the veggies and paneer masala.

Foxtail Millet Dosa

Ingredients

- Foxtail millet flour - 30 gm

- Besan/wheat flour - 1 tablespoon

- Chopped onion, ginger, green chillies

Procedure

- Mix all the above ingredients and make a dosa batter.

- Heat a tawa and grease it with a little oil.

- Pour a big ladle of batter starting from corners of the tava and finish it in the middle (like the way you make rava dosa).

Wheat Dosa

Ingredients

- Wheat flour- 3/4th cup

- Chopped onion, ginger, green chillies

Procedure

- Mix all the ingredients above and make a batter with the consistency of idli batter.

- Heat a tava and grease it with a little oil.

- Pour a big ladle of batter starting from corners of the tava and fi nish it in the middle.

Vermicelli Upma

Ingredients

Ragi/wheat vermicelli - 1 cup Chopped carrot - 1 small Chopped beans - 5-8 pieces Chopped onion - 1 small Urad dal - 1 teaspoon Peas - 10-15

- Grated ginger, chopped green chillies, curry leaves, chopped coriander leaves for taste

- Juice of one lemon

Procedure

- In a pan, dry roast the vermicelli and keep it aside. (A lot of people add oil while roasting. If you are looking for a low-calorie version, you can avoid this.)

- Heat 1 teaspoon oil. Add mustard seeds and when they begin to splatter, add grated ginger, chopped green chillies, curry leaves and urad dal

- Add all the chopped veggies, a little salt and cover the pan with a lid. Cook till the vegetables become soft.

- In a different pan, boil water and keep it ready.

- Once the veggies are soft-cooked, add the boiled water to it, then slowly add the roasted vermicelli. Cook till the water dries off.

- Add lemon juice and chopped coriander leaves.

Ragi Dosa

Ingredients

- Ragi flour - 3/4th cup

- Rice flour - 1/2 cup

- Chopped onion, ginger, green chillies.

Procedure

- Mix all the above ingredients and make a batter with the consistency of idli batter

- Heat a tava and grease it with a little oil.

- Pour a big ladle of batter starting from the centre, moving outwards in circular direction. Roast it.



(The writer is the founder of www.dietburrp.com)