Easy & healthy breakfast recipes are a must for the rush hour. It is always said you should start your day with a good meal. However, it is here that most people get disarray. Not eating breakfast on time, results in headaches, acidity and even migraine. Indian breakfast recipes help you eat a balanced diet too. You need not have fried stuff daily but steamed idli, dhokla low oil upma dosa help you have a good breakfast daily.Indian veg recipes has a perfect mix of everything. Yes, everything is important whether its vitamins and minerals or carbohydrates, proteins and fat. Everything in a limited quantity is good for the body else it results in cravings. You do not need to have eggs and milk for a complete meal. There are lots of veggies and fruits which help you achieve the target.
Some people take tea or coffee empty stomach. This leads to acidity over a period of time. Always have something to eat when you have your cuppa. You need them to cook fast and taste good even when you are in a hurry. Good food makes a great start for the day. If you do not have time to cook in the morning, have a bowl of overnight oats or any Indian breakfast recipe. At least eat something rather than staying hungry. It is quite a long gap from the time you have eaten dinner and staying hungry as you go working along with routine only increases acidity.
Indian breakfast recipes
Great recipes for a weekday menu. Easy cooking for that hectic morning brekkie!
Healthy poha for an easy vegan gluten-free start.Pair it with some lemon tea or a smoothie and you are good to go!
Batata vada or vada pav? Make it a healthy choice by air frying instead of frying !
Khaman or Instant dhokla is a recipe you will make time and again. Perfect with some fried chilly and mint chutney.
Mixed dal dhokla is a good way to have your lentils.
Want to eat oats, yet cannot? Oats dhokla gives you a chance to eat them hot.
Sandwich dhokla. Perfect mix of sooji rava and besan with a hint of mint chutney in between.
Sabudana vada air-fried or otherwise makes for a good gluten-free breakfast.
Sabudana ,these tapioca pearls are perfect for an easy khichdi.Whether you wanna fast or go gluten-free, the
Classic Birchers mueseli or overnight oats have been on every fit foodie's menu. Its easy to make and great for the gut too. Whether you are vegan or vegetarian, eat maple syrup or honey, you can simply pair this big bowl of oats with bananas and seasonal fruit for an all year round breakfast.
Air- fried beet cutlets make a mean burger for your brunch. Cooks in a jiffy too and tastes finger licking good!
Craving South Indian? Here is a list of recipes which will make you go Wow!
Top tip
At our home, we do not believe in food wastage, hence if we have left over rice or flatbread, we temper them with some spices and use it as a breakfast on next day.
You can temper with any spices, the core of the being
- Mustard seeds
- Cumin seeds
- Chillies
- Ginger
- Curry leaves
- Turmeric
- Salt
See the recipe below which is both vegan and gluten-free and an example of using left over rice.
Lemon Rice
Ingredients
- 1.5 cup cooked rice
For tempering
- 2 tbsp oil
- 1 tbsp urad dal/split black gram soaked in water for 20 mins and drained
- 1 tbsp channa dal/split bengal gram soaked in water for 20 mins and drained
- ¼ cup peanuts
- ¼ cup cashews optional
- Generous pinch of heeng/asafoetida Avoid if gluten-free
- 1 tsp mustard seeds
- ½ tsp turmeric powder
- ½ tsp ginger
- 3 sprigs of curry leaves
- 3 tbsp lemon juice
- 2 dried red chilli
- Salt as per taste
Instructions
- Cook rice and keep it aside. Ensure they are not mushy.
- Add turmeric and lemon juice to rice, keep it aside.
- In a pan,heat oil and and saute peanuts, keep it aside.
- Add mustard seeds,let it splutter.
- Add curry leaves followed by chillies and soaked lentils.
- Let it roast.Add asafoetida & ginger
- Add peanuts,rice and mix well
- Serve hot.
Notes
You may also use left over rice for this recipe.Only add the lemon mix to it.
Click here to see another interesting flatbread recipe eaten for breakfast -Besani.
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