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 recipe from Indian breakfast menu. 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 Ideas
Great recipes for a weekday menu. Easy cooking for that hectic morning brekkie! Read on our Indian recipes for breakfast.
Sabudana ,these tapioca pearls are perfect for an easy khichdi.Whether you wanna fast or go gluten-free, this is a very simple and easy recipe,also famous on the streets of Indore and Bhopal in MP,India
Healthy poha for an easy vegan gluten-free start.Pair it with some lemon tea or a smoothie and you are good to go! This is a common breakfast recipe in India. You will find this recipe prepared in different way across the whole of India.
Batata vada or vada pav? Make it a healthy choice by air frying instead of frying ! A very famous recipe from Indian breakfast list served with pav/bread in Mumbai from Maharashtra,India.
Khaman or Instant dhokla is a recipe you will make time and again. Perfect with some fried chilly and mint chutney.This is one of the famous gujarati breakfast recipes in India.
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.Oats are very versatile, you can also make a quick oats dosa with oats powder.This is one of the healthy Indian breakfast recipes and you can even prepare this in advance and just temper it in the morning.
Sandwich dhokla. Perfect mix of sooji rava and besan with a hint of mint chutney in between.
This paratha recipe is a very nutritious north Indian breakfast recipe made with whole wheat flour and lentils.
Sabudana vada air-fried or otherwise makes for a good gluten-free breakfast.
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! This is an easy & healthy breakfast recipe Indian style.
A simple vegetable rava upma recipe that includes tomatoes as well. This has to be in your menu of quick and easy Indian breakfast recipes.
Craving South Indian? Here is a list of south Indian breakfast recipes which will make you go Wow! Most of the recipes are have very less oil, which makes them an easy option for healthy Indian breakfast recipes.
Vegetable rava idli is a very easy recipe that can be made with just rava/sooji and some vegetables.
Methi thepla is a simple flatbread made with whole wheat flour and methi leaves (fenugreek). This is a popular indian breakfast from Gujarat.
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.
Chitranna | South Indian Lemon rice | Nimmakaya pulihora recipe
Equipment
- pan /saucepan
- Grater for ginger
- Air fryer optional ( for air fried peanuts)
Ingredients
- 1.5 cup cooked rice
- 3 tablespoon lemon juice
- ½ teaspoon turmeric powder
For tempering
- 2 tablespoon oil
- 1 tablespoon urad dal/split black gram soaked in water for 20 mins and drained
- 1 tablespoon channa dal/split bengal gram soaked in water for 20 mins and drained
- ¼ cup peanuts fried or roasted
- Generous pinch of heeng/asafoetida Avoid if gluten-free
- 1 teaspoon mustard seeds
- ½ teaspoon ginger
- 3 sprigs of curry leaves
- 2 dried red chilli optional
- Salt as per taste
Instructions
- Heat a pan. Fry peanuts and keep it aside or use air fried peanuts. Add mustard seeds, dried red chilies and curry leaves. Let it splutter.
- Now, add soaked dal/lentils, ginger, asafoetida and let it cook for couple of minutes.
- Meanwhile, add turmeric powder, lemon juice and salt to cooked rice.
- Mix rice with tempering with fried or roasted peanuts.
- 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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