Healthy Recipes ( Breakfast)

Healthy Recipes ( Breakfast)

Healthy Breakfast is the secret to burning double the fat in a regular day. Simple tweaks to the daily recipe can change regular breakfast recipes into healthy recipes. The secret here is to change the type of carbohydrates one consumes during the breakfast. Not all carbohydrates are bad. In fact unrefined carbohydrates are good for us. Unrefined cards like fruits, whole grains & certain lentils are rich in fiber & thus digest slowly. This will also make us eat right during the day as one is less likely to feel hungry.
I am a big fan of Indian breakfast. Most popular Indian breakfast items are a combination of cereals & pulses. This combination provides carbohydrates & protein; both of which are important at the start of the day. To top this, these breakfast items are fermented too. Fermentation coverts carbohydrates & sugar into beneficial acids, thereby increasing the nutritive value of these breakfast items.
Despite these benefits I feel that certain changes can make these recipes even healthier.
A simple dosa is a combination of rice & urad dal. This can be made healthier by addition of soya powder , griddling with olive oil, using brown rice & adding some lentils to the above mixture.
Here are two power packed healthy Indian Dosa recipes:
Mixed Dal Dosa / Adai : Adai is a dosa made with a mixture of dals.
Recipe: ( serves four adults)

100 gms of split red gram dal (toor dal)
150 gms of split green gram dal (moong dal)
100 gms of Bengal gram dal (channa dal)
50 gms of urad dal (black gram dal)
400 gms of brown rice (brown rice is a much better source of unrefined carbs than polished rice)
Soak rice for 4 hours & the lentils for 2 hours. Grind the mixture into a thick paste. This batter needs to be fermented for 4 hours & refrigerated overnight. Herbs & spices like coriander, ginger, pepper / red chilli & cumin seeds can be added during grinding for additional taste. Add salt according to taste & pour the batter into a thin pancake over a hot griddle. Use olive oil to moisten the griddle plate & enjoy the delicious healthy breakfast.
Green dosa / Pesarratu : This is a specialty from the state of Andhra Pradesh & simple to make too.
Recipe:

1 cup whole green dal ( whole moong dal )
¼ cup soya
I cup finely chopped mixture of onions, ginger & coriander.
Salt & green chilies as per taste.
Soak soya & dal for 4 hours. Grind the soaked mixture into a smooth paste . Add the chopped vegetables & herbs. Prepare the dosa in the same manner as Adai. The batter needs to spend about 2 ½ minutes on the griddle.
Additional Friendly healthy recipe tips : Mixed vegetables can be added to almost any Indian breakfast item to make it healthier. Some examples are ; vegetable paratha instead of aloo paratha, grated vegetable idly/ rava idly or even vegetable poha !
Readers of this blog are encouraged to share their secret healthy recipe with other readers.
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