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Healthy Breakfast Recipe: Instant Poha Upma - 2 Recipes

Kick-start your day with a healthy breakfast recipe. Looking to add another healthy recipe to your breakfast collection? Well, this surely is going to be a great start. Poha or rice flakes is a healthier alternative to many things normally used in Indian kitchens.  This makes even diabetes-friendly recipes. My diabetic parents-in laws have poha as a snack in the evenings. poha upma Here I am sharing two poha recipes - perhaps poha upma recipes that are unlike the kind of upma you have been having until now. The first simple breakfast recipe uses steamed veggies. It is as simple as steaming vegetables of your choice, say carrots, peas, capsicum and then adding them to a tempering of onion, tomato, and ginger. Finally, your poha upma is ready when you mix pre-soaked poha. Done! So simple; yet so yummy and healthy! I started eating poha a few years back after I found its varied uses as a snacking option and healthy breakfast alternative. Here is a very simple, fil

Rava Dosa: A Healthy Breakfast Option

rava dosa Breakfast is the start of the day's meal planning. When you get to eat "soul food," you don't want anything else. This is exactly what I am experiencing today. Made Rava dosa 'n it tasted yum with potato sambar curry!!! Perfect meal combo to kick-start your day! Super easy to make 'n is equally filling. Recipe : 1 cup rava (suji) 1/2 cup rice flour 1 tsp atta 2 tbsp of curd (optional) 1 cup water (more or less depending on the consistency - the batter should not be too runny) salt as per taste Tempering/tadka ingredients: 1/2 tsp oil mustard seeds curry leaves chana dal, urad dal (optional) Procedure rava thali Mix rava, rice flour, atta, salt, and water. You can add 2 tbsp of curd.. Set it aside for 15-20 minutes. Meanwhile, boil potatoes. Cut boiled potatoes in small sizes. Marinate them with salt, turmeric, and sambar powder. Fry marinated potatoes on tawa/skillet. Pour one cup of water in a pan. Add 2 tsp o

Mix Vegetable Parantha

mix vegetable parantha for breakfast Paranthas are a quintessential breakfast in north India, especially Punjab and Delhi. Being a Punjabi, I have a fondness for paranthas, though I try to make low-calorie paranthas, using least amount of oil, instead of clarified butter. Anyway, I add oats and ragi flour to wheat flour to knead my daily dough for rotis and paranthas. This time I added finely chopped carrot, capsicum, peas, ginger and sprouts to the dough and made mix veg paranthas. These Indian flat bread rotis are healthier form of paranthas and taste great. I enjoyed these with sweet amla chutney. Ingredients wheat flour - 1 cup ragi flour - 1/4 cup Oatmeal (powder)- 1/4 cup salt, oil Ginger grated carom seeds (ajwain) Chopped Vegetables of your choice (carrot, capsicum, peas, cauliflower, methi) Procedure Mix everything and make a semi-soft dough. Let it sit for 10 minutes. Roll out into chapatis or paranthas. Fry using little oil/ghee on either side