Healthy Indian Breakfast Recipes
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SOMETHING' S COOKING Healthy Indian Breakfast Recipes Homemade breakfast recipes inspired by tradition KALYON SUBBARAO www.foodopium.in COPYRIGHT Copyright @ 2021 by Kalyon Subbarao M All the images used in this cookbook are own and cannot be used or published with prior permission. DEDICATION To My Wife Margaret for her unconditional support in everything I do & all her innovative ideas .... My Daughter Tisya for her enthusiastic participation. .... My Mom for her support and recipes :-) THIS E-BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED TO THEM ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This book is a collection of recipes written on my blog, it could not have happened without Blogchatter’s help and initiative of creating an e- book. This is also acknowledging sincerely the help and patience shown in addressing our concerns and issues from blogchatter family and help me create this first e–cookbook, which has always been an elusive dream from the day I started writing my blog and creating my vlog. Can’t thank enough my family for the support in creating and trying out the myriad recipes and bear the brunt of having those for breakfast, lunch, and dinner dishes I cook And finally, to the blogchatter WhatsApp group members, who give suggestions and ideas wholeheartedly and helped me keep the tempo going as they were sharing their work, giving inspiration and in turn helped me push through to get through before the deadline…….! And final not least the various recipes I have scoured through to make these recipes, to my wife and mom who have encouraged me to try out these traditional Indian breakfast recipes, which we normally have on a daily basis. TABLE OF contents 2 3 4 5 Aloo Paratha & Meethi Paratha & Safeed Poha / Palak Thalipeth Sabudana Kichadi Dhokla Avalakki 6 7 8 9 MINI IDLI & PEARL Besan Ki Chilla Mooli Spicy Curry ONION SAMBAR & Instant Palak Paratha Leaves Rice Dosa 10 11 12 13 Pesarattu / Dibba Roti / Vegetable Lapsi Rava Moong Dal dosa Urad Dal Roti Upma Pulao & Dalai Pulao 14 15 16 17 Lapsi Rava Candipappu Nuka / Ven Pongal / Rava Dosa Pulao & Dalai Tuvar Dal Dosa Kattu Pongal Pulao 18 19 Akki Roti / Authors Bio Chawal Ki Roti INTRO Breakfast has always been Indian breakfasts are full of dubbed as the most important options for any person who is meal of the day, the reason looking at having wholesome and being we last have our dinner at healthy breakfast, we as a nation around approximately 8 to 9 pm India are spoilt and blessed with the earlier day after that we do breakfast choices, every 10 to 20 not have anything until the next kilometers the cuisine/food changes, we can find in the north day morning till 9 to 10 am, we the famous parathas made with have almost 10 to 12 hours different fillings like potato, gap, so having sufficient, fenugreek leaves, cabbage, mooli, nutritious food for breakfast which are had with curd, chutney becomes vital for anyone. or pickle and in the south we the world-famous Indian healthy Usually, one’s breakfast should pancake i.e. dosas and uttapams be nutritious and filling as well. which are extremely healthy. One thing one has to keep in mind is that one should have We in this book try to bring you easily digestible foods in the some very healthy and morning as the stomach was on wholesome Indian Breakfast break the whole night, if we Recipes from all corners... have heavy or oily food, we tend to feel full and gloomy the whole day. That’s why we have Food is the most primitive a cup of tea or any other form of comfort. healthy drink in the morning in a way break the fast the body is Andy Rooney on the whole night. Page 1 Aloo Paratha Ingredients 45 min 4 People 3 cups Whole How to DO ? Wheat Flour For Stuffing First, prepare the dough as we 5 to 6 no prepare for chapati. Now prepare the aloo paratha Potatoes Boiled stuffing, the boiled should be 2 no's Green smashed without any lumps and all Chillies Chopped the other items listed under for Finely stuffing. 1 ½ Cup Onion Divide the stuffing into equal balls Finely Chopped and keep it aside and do the same with the chapati dough. ½ tsp Turmeric Roll the chapati dough into small ½ tsp Red Chilli round circles keep the stuffing in powder the center and wrap aloo stuffing 2 tsp Grated Ginger with the chapati dough from all ½ tsp Lemon juice sides, similar to modak style. (indian 1 dessert) Roll it gently and shallow fry it on both sides by applying oil on both side 576 Kcal Serve it with curd and pickle, the best accompaniment for aloo paratha. PALAK THALIPEETH Ingredients 55 min 4 People 250 Gms Palak finely choppedHow to DO ? ¾ Cup Whole ·Take a big bowl to add the three flours, Wheat Flour chopped palak, onion, green chilies, and all 3/4 Cup Gram the other ingredients mentioned above. ·Mix flour all of them into a soft dough, apply oil on the dough, and keep it aside for 10 to 15 minutes. ½ Cup Rice Flour ·On a banana leaf, take a ball-sized dough 1 no Red Onion and pat it from inside to outside slowly, Make Finely Chopped a hole in the center of the Talipeeth. ·In the 2 no's Green meanwhile put tawa on gas to be heated, Chillies Chopped and put the flattened/patted Talipeeth with 1 tsp Ajwain the aluminum foil and leave it for some time ½ tsp Coriander and remove the foil from the top. Pour some Powder oil from the sides and in the hole and cover it and cook for 3 to 5 minutes on slow to ¼ tsp Chilli medium heat. Powder 2 ·Once the crust is formed on one side 2 to 3 tbsp. Oil reverse and cook it on the other side for Salt to taste another 2 to 3 minutes on slow to medium 700 Kcal Water heat. Otherwise, the Talipeeth will get burned/charred. Serve it with curd Page 2 REFERENCE: WWW.FOODOPIUM.IN Meethi Paratha Ingredients 45 min 5 People Fenugreek leaves: 3 to 4 cups How to DO ? (cleaned and de Take all the above stemmed) ingredients in a bowl expect Whole wheat flour: oil for frying and salt. 3 to 4 cups Mix it till the dough becomes Chilli powder: 1 tsp similar to chapati dough, it Coriander Powder: be bit softer than the chapati 1 tsp dough as we have added Curd: 1 tbsp. curd in it. Salt to taste Let it rest for a while and then divide the dough into Oil for mixing equal sized balls. Oil for shallow Roll the balls like chapati and frying fry them on tawa till they are 3 done. Serve it with curd and pickle, the best accompaniment for aloo paratha. 355 Kcal SABUDANA KHICHADI RECIPE Ingredients 45 min 3 People ·250 gms Sabudana/Sago How to DO ? ·¼ Cup Peanuts ·Soak sabudana overnight for around Coarsely Grinded 8 hrs, make sure put water just line above the sabudana in the bowl. Fluff ·2 nos Green Chillies the soaked sabudana with fork so ·¼ Cup Peanuts that they separate into single grains. Fried ·Fry the peanuts and keep it aside. ·1 cup cubed potato Take a deep and hard bottomed pan and heat some oil, temper with ·1 sprig Curry mustard seeds, cumin, curry leaves, Leaves cubed potato and green chillies fry ·1 tsp Mustard for some time i.e. till the potato is Seeds cooked. ·1 tsp Jeera ·Put the fluffed sabudana in the pan and keep stirring it, put 1 tsp ground ·¼ Cup Fresh peanut powder at regular intervals 4 Coriander Chopped and stir, this helps in keep the grains Salt as per taste separate and prevent them from forming lumps. 700 Kcal ·Keep frying the sabudana kichadi REFERENCE: WWW.FOODOPIUM.IN until the grains become transparent. Page 3 Once the kichadi is cool serve it. Safeed/White Dhokla Dhokla Batter 8 hrs 4 People Ingredients ·1 Cup Urad Dal How to DO ? ·3 Cup Raw Rice ·Take all the mentioned ·¼ tsp Fenugreek above in big bowl rinse it /Meethi Seeds thoroughly and soak it for 6 ·Salt as required. to 8 hours. ·Remove the water and grind it into thick paste. ·This batter should be fermented for further overnight i.e., 8 to 10 hours, 5 one can add salt at this stage or later when you’re making the dhokla. 715 Kcal ·If one is using Eno, you skip 45 min 4 People the above step of fermenting. Below we are using Eno to Making Dhokla speed up the process of fermenting. How to DO ? ·The batter salt can be Ingredients adjusted when you are Take a big bowl and mix Dhokla batter and ·3 Cups Dhokla Batter making the dhokla as all the items mentioned in the ingredients required. ·¾ cup Curd list except for Eno. ·Below are the instructions ·2 Drops of Lemon ·Meanwhile put water in the steamer and for Safeed/white Dhokla ·1 tsp Chilli Paste put it on heat and grease the dhokla plates Recipe. before use. Note: Please leave a ·1 tsp Ginger Paste ·Now before putting the batter in the gap to the rim of the ·2 tsp refined oil dhokla plates, put Eno and mix it and pour plate while pouring ·Salt As required the batter in the plates. the batter in the ·Keep plates in the steamer for steaming, ·1 Packet Eno plates as the dhokla steam the dhokla for about 15 to 18 minutes.