Avocado Banana Smoothie

Ingredients:
1 Avocado
1 Banana
1 Pear or Apple
1 mug milk (I use soy/almond/hazelnut milk... Normal skimmed milk is fine too)
1/2 inch ginger (optional)
Few mint leaves (optional)

Method:
Mix all ingredients in a blender. I do not remove the skin from Apple or pear. Bring to a nice smooth thick consistency (add a little water if too thick) and serve immediately.

Ragi and buckwheat (kuttu) porridge

Another healthy breakfast recipe, esp for cold winter mornings. This breakfast high in calcium and fibre and very filling.

Ingredients

1. 1 cup Ragi powder
2. 1/2 cup Buckwheat(kuttu) grains
3. 3 cups water
4. Jaggery
5. Milk (soya / almond / normal milk)
6. Nuts
7. Raisins

Method

1. Dry roast Ragi powder till it gets a roasted smell.
2. Add Buckwheat grains and roast for few more minutes.
3. Add water into the mix and boil it.
4. Add jaggery as per taste to get some sweetness into the mixture.
5. Boil slowly till you get the desired thickness.
6. Add milk, raisins and nuts before serving.

This porridge can be stored in the refrigerator easily 2-3 days.

Oats ka cheela

Healthy breakfast recipe

Ingredients

• 2 cups oat
• 1 cup sooji
• 2 small cups yogurt
• one small onion
• 2 green chillies
• 1 teaspoon cumin powder
• 1 teaspoon coriander powder
• coriander leaves
• salt to taste

Directions

1. Dry roast oat and sooji separately for 5 minutes each.
2. Mix both the ingrediants together with yogurt and mix well and keep aside for ten minutes.
3. Add sliced onion,cumin powder,coriander powder,coriander leaves,chillies and salt according to the taste and mix well and make a batter.
4. Make chillas out of the batter and serve hot with chutney or sauce.

Masala Oats Paniyaram

This one is a great great breakfast  meal or lite dinner option - very quick to make, extremely light and very very healthy since this uses lot of veggies and almost no fat! I got this recipe online and made some minor modifications, but end product is so yummy that my sister, who hates the very mention of oats, has finally started eating them!

The below will make close to 27-28 paniyarams. Hence assuming one, if not like my elder brother, eats 8 to 9, this will suffice for 3 people. Those who like more generous quantities can double the ingredient amounts.

Ingredients 

• 1 cup oats (you can use quaker's)
• 1 cup curd
• 1/2 cup finely chopped onions
• 3/4 cup mixed veggies (I used carrots, cabbage etc - but you can pretty much use anything you like - beans, peas, corn, lentils etc). If you want to add slightly more veggies, that's also fine.
• 2 tbsp semolina
• 2 tsp rice flour
• 2 tsp chickpea flour
• 1 or 2 green chillies, finely chopped
• 2 tsp grated ginger
• Finely chopped coriander leaves
• Some curry leaves
• Pinch of asafoetida
• Pinch of soda
• Salt to taste (I used 1 1/2 tsp)
• Oil - few drops

Method

• Mix oats, semolina, curd, rice flour and chick pea flour in a bowl. Adjust the batter consistency by adding water or butter milk
• Add mixed veggies (you can pulse them for one round in mixer), finely chopped onions, green chillies, grated ginger and curry leaves.
• Add salt and soda.
• Allow the batter to rest for 10-15 mins so that oats gets soaked in curd.
• Heat the appe/ paniyaram pan.
• Add a drop of oil in each mould of the pan.
• If the batter is too thick, you can adjust the consistency of batter once again and spoon out into each mould until it fills upto 3/4th .
• Cook it covered over low flame.
• Flip them in between and cook on other side until they turn golden brown from all the side (takes 3-4 mins each side or lesser)
• Once done serve them warm with chutney of your choice or sauce.

And the dish looks like below and those (like me) who don't know what appe/ paniyaram pan looks like..a picture of the pan is added as well. :)