Breakfast Recipes

1.Aloo Paratha (potato stuffed )

Ingredients needed:

Whole wheat flour - 1 cup
Salt - a pinch
Oil -1 tsp for kneading the dough
Oil for cooking the parathas

For the stuffing:

Potatoes - 2-3
Green chillies -2 seeded
Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
Salt as required
Coriander leaves - handful (finely chopped )
Onion - 1 finely chopped ( optional) - I did not add
Garam masala - 1/4 tsp

Methode:

Take 1 cup of flour, add salt, oil, water and knead into a soft dough. Prepare the dough as for roti.Divide it into 6 equal sized ball.

Pressure cook potatoes till soft. Peel the skin and mash it well. Add chillies, cumin seeds, garam masala, salt and coriander leaves. Now your stuffing is ready.

Make 6 equal sized balls out of the stuffing.

Roll out the dough into small round shape and keep the stuffing on it.

Seal the dough with the stuffing inside. 

Roll it out into round shapes carefully with the sealed part on the top.

Heat a tawa and place the rolled out dough.

You will find small bubbles forming. Apply 2 tsp of oil on the top and flip it over to the other side.
Cook both sides well. Add more oil if needed.

Remove from tawa after both the sides are cooked.

Serve with curd or chutney or pickles. Enjoy yummy aloo parathas.

2.Oats Banana Smoothie

Ingredients needed:

Oats - 2 tbsp
Milk - 3/4 cup
Yogurt - 1/4 cup (plain, low fat yogurt)
Banana - 1 (peel and cut into 3-4 pieces)
Honey - 2 tsp
Walnuts chopped - 1 tbsp

Methode:

Cook oats in 1/2 cup of water and allow it to cool. It will take only 2-3 minutes. You can prepare this even a night before and refrigerate, so that it will be more easier for you in the morning. Alternatively you can even powder raw oats and add it to your smoothie but I personally prefer cooking oats.

In a blender, combine cooked oats, yogurt, chopped banana, honey, little milk and puree it until smooth.

Then add the rest of the milk and blend again.

Add chopped walnuts and serve chilled. 

It’s very simple yet really satisfying. Enjoy preparing this and leave your feedback.

3.Crispy Rava Dosa Recipe

Ingredients needed:

Rice flour - 1 1/2 cup
Rava - 1/2 cup
Maida/ all pupose flour - 2 tbsp
Jeera/cumin seeds - 1 1/2 tsp
Whole black pepper - 1 tsp
Green chilli -1 very finely chopped

milk - 1/4 cup

Onion -1
Water - 2  3/4 cup
Oil for making dosas
Salt as needed

Methode:

Mix rava in 1/4 cup buttermilk and leave it for 15 minutes.

Chop onions and green chillies very finely.

First we will see how to prepare rava dosa batter- 

In a bowl, mix together rice flour, all purpose flour, cumin seeds, whole black pepper, green chillies and salt needed. Add the rava + butter milk mix to it. Then add approximately 2 3/4 cup of water to it little at a time and mix it well so that there are no lumps.Check for salt. Add if required.

Now the batter is ready.

When the tawa is heated well, reduce the flame to medium.

Remember for every dosa, you have to mix the batter well, so that the rava will not settle at the bottom. You cannot spread the rava dosa batter like normal dosa.

After mixing it, take a ladle or a small cupful of batter and fill the outer corners of the tawa

Then the inside of the tawa.

 See how lacy and beautiful it is. To make it easier to understand, I have explained it in 3 easy steps but you can pour the batter at one go following the same method.

Let the dosa get cooked. Rava dosa will take longer time to get cooked than normal dosa, so do not be in a hurry to flip over the dosa. Drizzle a tsp of oil around the dosa.

Let the dosa get cooked evenly on all sides.(You can adjust or move the tawa if needed)

Wait until the bottom turns nice golden brown and the corners start lifting up slightly.

Once the bottom turns golden brown, flip over to the other side. Drizzle another 1/2 tsp of oil around the dosa. Let the other side also get cooked.

Once cooked, remove from flame and serve hot with coconut chutney, sambar .