Poha/ Flat Beaten Rice.

Poha King of Breakfast: The most popular and very easy breakfast to make.. there are many versions you can make in this. I follow this basic recipe and it turns out delicious everytime.. all you need is few ingredients and you’ll have quick breakfast ready. Poha and Kadak Adrakwali Chai #matchmadeinheaven .. don’t forget to follow my step by step videos and enjoy with your family.. xx

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https://youtu.be/v6tZ_wTDs0U

Granola Bowl.

A bowl of goodness to start your day with loads of positive energy.. a simple breakfast with loads of #freshfruits , #yogurt, #nuts and #granola this is all we need guys to get through this difficult times.. it’s very simple yet healthy and nutritious... I’m relishing this for my breakfast in this cloudy morning. What’s yours???X

Ingredients.

Granola 

Banana 🍌 

Strawberries 🍓 

Mix nuts 

Yogurt 

Some flax seeds 

Some honey 🍯to drizzle on top.. x

Method:

In small serving bowl add granola as a base. 

Then top up with yogurt as a second layer. 

Then add some chopped banana and strawberries.

Now add some mix nuts from top , then sprinkle some flax seeds. 

Drizzle some honey from top. That’s it. You have breakfast ready in no time..x

Mooli Ka Stuffed paratha || Indian Flat Bread.

Mooli Ka Stuffed Paratha/Radish Stuffed Indian Flat Bread, making of this paratha use to be very difficult for me, till I learnt this way and this taste really delicious with curd and pickle. Do try this recipe and please don,t forget to leave your valuable comments. X

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https://youtu.be/g-RQyL4YDGQ

Ingredients.

2 cups wheat flour

100 gram mooli/radish

1/2tsp red chilli powder

1/2tsp coriander powder

1/4tsp ajwain/carom seeds

1/4tsp Nigella seeds

1tsp ginger

1tbsp chopped coriander leaves

Oil for frying paratha

Salt to taste.

Overnight Oatmeal.

Overnight Oatmeal this has become favourite meal in my family and I make this atleast twice a week. It makes a morning job easy and gives a quick meal of the day, which keep the whole day energetic and healthy.

Ingredient's for Soaking.

1 cup oats

1 cup curd

1cup milk

2tbsp honey.

Ingredient's for Garnishing.

Hand full of chopped dry fruits

1 slice banana

1tsp flax seeds

2tbsp dried cranberry.

Making Method.

In a large bowl, add the oats,curd,milk and honey. Mix it well and refrigerate overnight.

Next day, In a large serving bowl, add the soaked oats and garnish with dry fruits, banana, flax seeds and cranberry. 

Serve cold.

Fried Idli.

Fried Idli, this is one of the easiest breakfast if you have left over idli sitting in the fridge and you have no idea what to do with them. All you need is chilli garlic idli powder and some ghee and your yummy breakfast is ready in no time. Serve with some coconut and mint chutney..

Ingredient's.

5 nos idli

2tbsp chilli garlic idli powder (market bought)

1tbsp ghee

10 curry leaves

1/2tsp mustard seeds

Salt to taste.

Cooking Method.

Cut the idlis into small cubes and set it aside.

In a deep frying, add ghee, when its hot, add mustard and curry leaves, When they splutter, add the chilli garlic idli powder and give a quick mix.

Now add the idli cubes, adjust the seasoning and saute for few minutes. Then transfer them into a serving dish.

Serve hot with Coconut and Mint Chutney.

Chilli Cheese Toast With Avocado!

Chilli Cheese Toast With Avocado! Easy beezy breakfast on busy weekdays or weekends. Paired with milkshake or juice makes a very healthy and filling dish.

Ingredients.

4 slices of bread (white or brown)

2 tbsp pizza sauce

1 medium onion, 1 medium tomato. 1 small capsicum (Finely chopped)

1/2 ripped avocado

1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese

Pinch of black pepper powder

Salt to taste.

Cooking Method.

Pre-heat the oven at 180c for 10 minutes.

Apply pizza sauce on the bread on one side. Then arrange the chopped onion, capsicum and tomatoes. Sprinkle some salt and pepper. Then sprinkle the cheese on all the bread.

Grill the bread till the cheese is melted.

Now arrange the avocado slices on top of the grilled toast and sprinkle some more salt and pepper.

Serve hot with tomato ketchup.

Oats Cheese Cake With Britannia Nutrichoice Oats Cookies. Diabetic Friendly.

Healthy version of Oats Cheese Cake made with Britannia Nutrichoice Oats Cookies and honey, which I learnt at Diabetic Food Trail Masterclass. It was so yummy yet healthy and that stole my heart and never wanted to wait for trying this recipe at home with my own twist. Here comes the recipe of oats cheese cake with my own twist and it taste as good as the original recipe and I must say this is an a awesome dessert or breakfast for the health conscious people who might be bored of eating that plain and tasteless food.. Seriously I can't believe that diabetic food also can be made so tasty until I attended this event. A big thanks to Ms.Seema Pinto and Mr.Manoj Pinto for coming up with this diabetic food trail and making those people happy who are banned to eat something sweet.. There are many more recipes coming up which I have learnt in the event.. People do try this healthy cheese cake you'll definitely fall in love as I have.

Ingredient's.

1 cup quicker oats

1/2 cup cream cheese

3/4 cup yogurt

1/2 cup milk

10 Britannia nutrichoice oats cookies

5 tbsp honey (add more if needed)

1/ 2 cup chopped dry fruits (almonds, cashew and pistachio)

1 tbsp strawberry compound.

Method.

In a mixing bowl, add oats, cream cheese, milk, yogurt and 2tbsp honey and give nice mix. Then cover the lid and refrigerate over night or atleast 4 to 5 hours.

Then finely grind the oats cookies and take it out to another mixing bowl, add the 3tbsp honey and make a crumble, (add more honey if needed, for me this much of honey was enough since we don't like much sweet)

Now take serving glass/bowl, add the cookies crumble down and make a base, then take out the overnight cream cheese mixture and add half of the dry fruits and give a quick mix. then pour the mix on top of the cookies base and garnish with strawberry compound and leftover dry fruits. Then put the glasses back to refrigerator for atleast 25 to 30 minutes to set.

Serve chill.

Akki Roti (Karnataka Style)

Akki Roti (Karnataka Style) is very popular Karnataka Breakfast, can be served with any type of chutney or with chicken curry. It makes a very healthy and filling breakfast. I have  made it in little different way to get a perfect round shape. This roti can be even cooked with raw rice flour but you need a bit of more hard work to roll the roti. This method will give you perfect round shape roti and it solves the purpose of eating akki roti..

Ingredient's.

1 cup rice flour

1 cup water

1tbsp oil

1/2 tsp cumin 

1 large onion, 2 green chillies (finely chopped)

Hand full of chopped coriander leaves

2 tbsp grated coconut

Salt to taste.

Cooking Method.

Bring water to a rolling boil in a sauce pan. Add salt, oil and cumin, give a mix, then add rice flour, onion, green chilles, coriander, coconut and mix well until no lumps remain. 

Turn the heat off. Cover the pan and set it aside for 5 minutes. Now knead the dough while its still hot, make it like a chapati dough.

Heat a tava on medium heat. Once heated, turn the heat to low.

Divide the dough into 2 inch balls and keep them covered under a damp cloth.

Spread some rice flour on the rolling board. Place a ball in the center and sprinkle more flour on top. Keep rolling the ball with the rolling pin into a round with even thickness.

Transfer onto the heated tava with the top surface up and cook the roti both the side. Apply little oil if needed on to both the side.

Follow the same method for the rest of them.

Serve hot with any Chutney or Chicken curry.

Stuffed Omelette With Caramelised Onion.

Stuffed Omelette With Caramelised Onion. This is a very easy stuffed omelette with well caramelised onion, with a hint of paprika and green chillies.. It makes an a awesome breakfast on a lazy weekends or even as a brunch. All you need is just few onion and eggs, that's it and your breakfast is shorted. It's been a long time I have participating in any competitions. All of sudden 3 days back I saw Better Butter Contest on my FB page which includes eggs and eggs are there in our breakfast almost everyday, so I thought why not give it a try. Just because of the contest I'm clicking pictures early mornings, making my hubby to wait on table for his breakfast, so that I don't become lazy and finish the food. Now he is like you have win this because you are making me wait for so long.. The funny thing is my hubby said if at all you win the contest, then take the 3rd price. Because he like the teapot.. hehehe. Anyways lets see what happens.. Do try the recipe and let me know.

Ingredient's.

4 eggs

3 large onion (thinly sliced)

2 green chillies (finely chopped)

1/8 tsp paprika

1/4 tsp ground black pepper

1/8 tsp Italian mix herbs

Pinch of red chilli flakes

Salt to taste

Oil as requires.

Cooking Method.

In a small mixing bowl, whisk the 2 eggs with a pinch of salt and set it aside.

In a nonstick frying pan, add little oil, saute the onion for few seconds, then add rest of the ingredients and fry till onions are well caramelised, then remove from the and set it aside.

Now in the same frying pan add little more oil and allow the oil to heat, pour the egg mixture on to the frying pan and cook on over medium heat. As the eggs sets on top lift the edges, letting the uncooked eggs to flow underneath. when eggs are set, add the half of the onion mixture to the omelette on one side and roll the otherside on top and cook for another minute, on a low flame.

Then take out the omelette on to a serving plate.

Serve hot with some Toast.

(Make 2 eggs at a time and divide the onion into 2 portion)

Cinnamon Rolls.

Cinnamon Rolls is sweet bread rolls, which is usually served for breakfast and even dessert. This makes a quick breakfast if made one night before and served with hot cup a coffee. This is a very easy recipe because every house has this basic ingredients at home. When all the basic ingredients are added together they make a very spongy and delicious rolls. Do try this recipe and let me know!!!

Ingredient's.

1+1/4tsp yeast

1/4cup Sugar

1/4cup warm water (115 degrees)

3/4cup whole milk

1/4tsp vanilla extract

1 Egg

1/4cup butter (melted)

4 cups of All Purpose Flour

1/4cup of Melted Butter, to brush over the top before baking.

For the Filling.

1/3cup butter, at room temperature

3/4cup brown sugar

1/4cup sugar

1+ 1/2 tbsp ground cinnamon.

For the Glaze,

1+ 1/4 cups powdered sugar

1/2tsp vanilla extract

3 to 4 tbsp warm milk.

Baking Method.

In a small bowl, combine the warm water and 1tsp sugar, sprinkle the yeast over the top and let it sit for about 5 minutes.

In the bowl mix the egg, milk, sugar and melted butter. Add 2 cups of the flour and the water and mix. then add vanilla and yeast mixture, mix until its all incorporated and slowly add about 2 more cups of flour. Knead the dough for 5 to 7 minutes or until you have a smooth dough. Cover the dough with plastic wrap and place it in a warm spot to rise for about 2 hours.

In a mean time. Take a small bowl, mix together the brown sugar, white sugar and cinnamon for the filling, set aside.

When the dough is doubled in size, punch the dough down and roll it out onto a floured surface into a 15x9” rectangle. Spread the soft butter over the top and sprinkle evenly over the sugar and cinnamon mixture. Staring from one of the long ends, tightly roll the dough into a jelly roll form. Cut into 10 to 12 slices and place them cut side down in a well buttered square baking pan. Cover with plastic wrap and put them back into a warm spot to rise for another 1 hours.

Meanwhile preheat oven to 350 degrees. Once risen, brush them with some melted butter and bake them for about 30 minutes or until golden brown.

While the cinnamon rolls cool for a few minutes make the glaze. Mix all the ingredients of the glaze, and make a runny glaze consistency. Immediately pour the glaze over the cinnamon rolls and enjoy!

Cinnamon & Dried Plums Breakfast Muffins.

Cinnamon & Dried Plums Breakfast Muffins. This is best muffins to have for breakfast with a glass milk to start a day with lots of energy, since it has all the goodness of dried plums, butter, milk etc. I'm a huge fan of muffins and I really enjoy baking them more then a cake and I bake them quite often with different ingredients. This is a full proof recipe which I follow every time and I always get a best result. Do bake and enjoy..

Yeilds: 9 medium Muffins

Preparation time: 10minutes

Baking time: 20 minutes.

Ingredient's

1/2+1/4 cup all purpose flour

1/4 cup butter

1tsp vanilla essence

1tsp baking powder

1/3 cup sugar

1tsp cinnamon powder

1 egg

1/3 cup milk

1 cup mix dried plums.

Baking Method.

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Line muffins tin with liners and set aside.

In a small bowl, mix together the flour and baking powder and cinnamon powder. set aside. 

In a another mixing bowl, cream together the sugar and butter. Add the eggs, vanilla and cream together until you get a smooth mixture.

Add the dry ingredients and dried plums, mix together and slowly add the milk and just mix everything to combine. DO NOT OVERMIX! 

Make sure you give everything a good stir with a spatula from the bottom to incorporate any bit that wasn't mixed.

Scoop the batter into your lined muffins tin, make sure it's only filled ¾ of the way up because they will rise. Bake for 20 minutes and let cool for sometime.

Serve for Breakfast with your favourite drinks.

Store them in a airtight container.

Adai/Lentil Dosa

Adai is a very famous South Indian dish which is made out of mix lentils and rice. You can add your choice of green leaves or veggies to make it more healthier and It is usually prepared for breakfast, but I even prefer to eat any time of the day. It is very simple to prepare and does not need much planning as for dosa and the good thing about this adai is, it does not need fermentation and you can prepare in no time. All you have to do just soak the rice and mix lentils for about 2 to 3hours. Then grind it to paste and make adai. Adai is usually little thicker then the dosa. It goes well with avial, coconut chutney or as it is.

Ingredient's.

1cup rice

1/2cup mix lentils(toor dal, urad dal, channa dal)

5 to 6 dry red chillis

10 curry leaves

1/2tsp finely chopped ginger

1/4tsp asafoetida/hing

Salt to taste

Oil for making adai.

Cooking Method.

Soak rice and dal together for 2- 3 hours.

Grind it to smooth paste along with red chilli, curry leaves, ginger, hing and salt. The batter should not be thick nor watery.

Heat a griddle or a non stick tawa and pour a ladle full of batter and spread it in circular motion. Drizzle a tsp of oil around the adai. Let it get cooked. Once cooked remove from tawa.

Serve it hot with coconut chutney, avial or as it is.

Instant Rava Idli.

Instant Rava Idli is the best and healthy breakfast. Idli use to be only breakfast dish before in my house but nowadays it has taken the place in lunch, dinner and even evening snacks too. I'm a very big fan of idlis because there is no oil or any masala and they taste great without chutney too. Here in England I'm not able to make over night idli or dosa batter because of the horrible climate, since last 4days it is continuously raining. Keeping this climate in my mind I came up with instant idea using little bit of active yeast.. I know it wont give the same taste but it's better then nothing and I'm happy with it. For this rava idli instead of yeast I have used baking soda and they were very soft and spongy. If your idli is soft and spongy then what else you want.

Ingredient's.

1 cup rava (sooji)

3/4 cup curd

1/2tsp finely chopped giner

1 small onion, 2 small green chillis (finely chopped)

2tbsp chopped coriander leaves

Pinch of baking soda

1/4cup of water

Salt to taste.

Ingredient's For Tempering

1/4tsp channa dal

1/4tsp urad dal

1/4tsp mustard

Few chopped curry leaves

1tbsp oil.

Cooking Method.

In a big mixing bowl, add rava(sooji), curd, onion, green chilli, ginger, baking soda, salt and water, mix them all together well and set it aside for 10 minutes.

In the mean time heat water in a idli steamer and make tempering using all the tempering ingredients. Then mix the tempering into the rava mixture and give quick stir, add more water if you needed to bring it to the right consistency of idli batter. Now pour the ladle full of idli batter into the idli maker trays and steam them for about 15 to 20 minutes.. Take idlis out.

Serve hot with Coconut Chutney and Sambar.

Breakfast Chocolate Chunks Muffins..

Chocolate Chunks Muffins.. Muffins are very versatile you can keep on changing or adding the ingredients and they taste better every time. I have never baked the muffins by following the same recipe I keep the measurement same and change the ingredients each time I bake. Last week I bought a pack of chocolate chunks cookies from pound land and from there only I got this name idea and I wanted to add the cookies also in the muffins but unfortunately they were no cookies left, then I decided to save that recipe for one more day and just do with chocolate and cinnamon... I have added the dairymilk chocolate but I felt it was better if I would have added some other chocolate. No problem I will leave it to you all to choose from your favourite chocolate and enjoy this muffins for breakfast.

Preparation time: 10 minutes 

Baking time: 20 minutes 

Serving: 9 medium cupcakes.

Ingredient's.

1/2cups all-purpose flour

1/6 cup cocoa powder 

1tsp baking powder

1/4 cup chocolate chunks

1/4tsp cinnamon powder 

1/3 cup milk

1tsp vanilla extract

1/4 cup butter

1/3 cup white sugar

1egg, room temperature.

Baking Method.

Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line 9 cup muffin pans with paper baking cups.

Stir together the flour, baking powder, coco powder and cinnamon in a large bowl, set it aside.

Beat the butter and sugar in a large bowl until light and fluffy. Add the egg and beat for another 1minute.

Add the dry ingredients and just mix together and slowly add the milk and just mix everything to combine. Add chocolate chunks and make sure you give everything a good stir with a spatula from the bottom to incorporate any bit that wasn't mixed.

Scoop the batter into your lined cupcake tin, make sure it's only filled ¾ of the way up because they will rise. Bake for 18-20 minutes and let cool before serving.

Serve with whipped cream or just like that.