Referred to as the most important meal of the day, breakfast is a must-have. When on a weight management journey, we tend to eat simple and more nutritious meals. However, diet and nutrition don’t always mean eating just boring food all the time. You can make those meals interesting and more appetizing too. Thus, starting off with a tasty breakfast in the morning is a thumbs up. In our Indian style of cooking, most of the dishes prepared for breakfast are quite low in carbohydrates.
The spices used while preparing the dishes are beneficial for losing weight. These meals assist your body in digestion and also maintain your heart’s health. It also has high fibre content and a low saturated fat content. If made correctly, Indian food can be quite nutritious for you. It is high in antioxidants, minerals, and vitamins that are all required for a successful weight management journey. You can also include some weight management gummies to boost up the weight loss process.
Peeps…let us scroll down through some nutritious yet tasty ideas that you can include while preparing your breakfast:
1. Masala Oatmeal
Eating just simple oats may not be appetizing. However, eating some masala oats can surely be delicious enough to please your taste buds. Masala Oats is a flavorful oats breakfast porridge made with a variety of veggies and fragrant Indian spices. It is a low-calorie vegan Indian breakfast meal that is both nutritious and tasty. A bowl of oatmeal provides 168 calories per serving.
Follow the steps one by one to make a yummy masala oatmeal bowl:
- Put a pressure cooker on the stove and heat it.
- When done, put ghee or oil, and cumin seeds
- Add the green chillies, onion, ginger, and garlic now. Cook for about 2-3 minutes, so that the onions are transparent. Mix in the tomato and seasonings. Combine thoroughly.
- Mix in the veggies, oats, and water. Stir well. Deglaze the pot if anything is sticking to the bottom.
- Put the lid over the pot now.
- Pressure cook the ingredients for about 8 minutes at high temperature. Turn off the stove then.
- Let the meal set for at least 10 minutes. Now, manually release the pressure.
- Lift the lid and squeeze a few drops of lemon juice. Mix everything well.
2. Rava Ragi Idli
Idli is a classic South Indian lentil cake that is steamed and is a common breakfast item in Indian households. Thus, the recipe provided below is a nutritious, easy, immediate, and no-grind ragi idli. Because of its low glycemic index, idli helps reduce hunger pangs and inhibits starch absorption, which aids in diabetic blood sugar regulation. This idli goes well with chutney, sambar, or podi.
- Mix ½ cup of ragi flour with ½ cup of semolina, and salt in a mixing bowl. Stir until it is well combined.
- Put ½ cup of yoghurt into the flour mixture, and combine thoroughly.
- Make small additions of water and form the batter.
- Allow the batter to rest for around 15-30 minutes.
- Mix the batter in one go and then add water if necessary. The batter’s consistency should be similar to an Idli batter.
- Then, add ¼ tea of baking soda, and mix until it is well combined.
- Make sure to fill the greased plates with the batter. Steam and cook it for about 8-10 minutes on high heat.
3. Beetroot Tortillas
You might be familiar with the health benefits that beetroot provides when trying to lose weight. However, for those who don’t, let’s have a look at them first. They are low in fat and calories, but rich in water. This might assist you in balancing your overall energy intake. Veg Tortillas or Tacos are Mexican dishes that use hand-sized wheat or corn tortillas filled with vegetable fillings.
However, you can make this recipe using beet puree mixed in the dough of wheat flour and all-purpose flour. This recipe for homemade tacos is simple and can be made in under 30 minutes.
- Take a container. Mix ½ cup of wheat flour. Next, add ½ cup of maida and then put 1 teaspoon of salt.
- Then add the puree of beetroots.
- Further, add curd and knead it into a slightly loose dough. Keep it covered for 5 minutes.
- While you wait, wash the veggies and then chop them.
- Put butter in a saucepan and cook it. When it is melted, add garlic. Be careful not to cook the garlic too long as the taste of burning will overpower the entire flavour.
- Add your favourite vegetables such as tomatoes, onions, capsicum, french beans corn, peas, etc.
- Then put 1 teaspoon of tomato ketchup.
- Sprinkle some seasonings and cook vegetables for 5 minutes. Allow the water to evaporate.
- Turn off the fire and let’s go back to tortillas.
- Take out some portion of the dough. Make it smaller than chapati, and larger than poori.
- For those who prefer a firm texture, you might bake the tortillas.
- After all the tortillas have been cooked, spread them out across a large wooden surface.
- Fill them with the fillings you had prepared. Then, roll them up and keep a dip. Some pumpkin yoghurt dip would go best with these tortillas.
Eat them hot Enjoy!!
In Summary
The yummy and delicious recipes that we have provided above can be easily prepared by you and enjoyed while you are trying to lose weight. They will not only keep your tummy full but also provide complete nutrition to your body. Additionally, these tasty breakfast recipes would keep your cravings for all those fried and oily food away.
Along with these flavourful dishes, you can include some weight loss gummies in your regular routine. These gummies are composed of multiple nutritional elements such as L-Carnitine, Green Coffee, Garcinia Cambogia extract, and Vitamin C. Named “The Beach Body” gummies, these rabbit-shaped treats contain 0 grams of sugar. Chewing just two of them before going to bed would provide the ultimate boost to your weight loss process.