Make your breakfast fun and healthy with these simple recipes.
Dietitian Jasleen Kaur shares five breakfast recipes. You can share your recipes too!
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Oats and mixed flour onion cheela
Ingredients
- ½ cup rolled oats
- ¼ cup of wholewheat flour
- 2-3 spring onions, chopped
- Ginger paste
- 2 green chillies
- ¾ cumin seeds
- 2 tsp oil
Method
- Mix together the oats and wholewheat flour in a bowl. Add water to make a smooth batter of pouring consistency. Cover and set aside to rest for half an hour.
- Add spring onions, spring onion greens, ginger paste, green chillies, cumin seeds and salt to taste. Mix well.
- Heat a tava and lightly grease it. When moderately hot, wipe it clean with a cloth.
- Pour one spoon of batter on the tava and spread it with the back of a ladle.
- Cook for a while and flip it over.
Fruity yogurt with cereal topping
Ingredients
- 2-3 apples, cut into equal squares
- 8-10 cherries
- 1 cup skimmed milk yogurt
- 1 tsp raisins
- 3-4 walnut or almonds, chopped
- 4 tsp muesli, roasted
Method
- Combine apple and cherries and refrigerate until ready to serve.
- Just before serving, mix chilled fruits, yogurt, raisins and nuts.
- Spoon into individual bowls, sprinkle muesli over it.
Egg chaat
Ingredients
- Whites of hard-boiled egg
- ½ onion, chopped
- ½ cucumber
- 2 green chillies, chopped
- 15 fresh mint leaves
- ¼ tsp salt
- ¾ cumin seeds, roasted and crushed
- ¼ red capsicum, chopped
- 2 tsp of green chutney
Method
- Place the onion, cucumber, green chillies, chopped mint and coriander in a large bowl.
- Cut each egg half into four slices.
- Add the salt, chaat masala , crushed cumin seeds and mint chutney to the bowl and mix.
- Add egg to the onion mixture.
- Make a bed of lettuce and serve the chaat.
Pineapple yogurt
Ingredients
- ½ pineapple, cut into small slices
- 1 inch cinnamon
- ¾ cup drained skimmed milk yogurt
Method
- Place the pineapple and cinnamon in a non stick pan and stew over low heat for 30 minutes.
- Remove the pineapple pieces from pan and mix into yogurt.
Moong Dal Uttapam
Ingredients
- 1 cup skinless split green (moong dal)
- ¼ baking powder
- ¼ turmeric powder
- 1 large capsicum
- 1 small tomato
- 1 onion
- Green chillies as per taste
- Salt as per taste
Method
- Drain the dal and grind it to paste
- Transfer into a bowl and add salt, baking powder and turmeric powder. Mix the above ingredients.
- Heat a non-stick tava, pour a spoon of the dal batter and spread it evenly. Take care that it is not too thin. Serve hot.
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