Can a Quick and easy breakfast be easily made at home? yes! If you are a Bachelor or a hostler you must know the stress of making breakfast each morning. Waking up in the morning, the first thought came to mind, what should I have for my breakfast? And I know how stressful it is every day because we have to take care of our health. We can’t take our health for granted, right?
So, don’t worry. I am here with a quick and easy breakfast recipe that can easily be available in your kitchen, especially for bachelors who stay alone.
A quick and easy breakfast doesn’t mean I am sharing any fast food recipes. But In this Article, I have shared the healthiest and most nutritious recipes to start a day.
Table of Contents
7 easy healthy breakfast recipes
- Moong dal chilla
- Vegetable Appe
- Peanut poha
- coleslaw Sandwich
- Overnight Oats
- Vegetable Rava Upma
- Kala Chana Salad
The Quick and easy breakfast Recipe has to be, “Moong dal chilla”
Moong dal chilla is one of the most nutritious, healthy, and tasty breakfasts. Moong dal is rich in high-quality protein, helpful to lose weight, and also it’s fulfilling. It’s one of the quick breakfasts anyone can make. Great for people who are trying to lose weight.
Let’s jump into the recipe.
Ingredients
| Green moong dal (Green Gram Lentil) | 1,1/2 cup (enough for 1 to 2 people) |
| Chana dal (split chickpea Lentil) | ¼ cup |
| Garlic | 5-6 cloves |
| Ginger | 1/2 inch |
| Green chilly | 2-3 |
| Turmeric | ½ teaspoon |
| Salt as per your taste |
The procedure of making moong dal chilla
- Wash and soak both Dal (lentils) Overnight.
- In the morning, remove all the water and blend it with Garlic, Ginger, and Green chilies with ½ cup of water. Keep the consistency of the batter a little thick. Don’t make a runny batter.
- Take out all the batter from the blender and add turmeric and salt to it. Mix it nicely.
- Heat a pan and grease it with oil.
- Take 1-2 ladles of batter and spread it on the pan.
- Cook it from both the sides
- Serve it warm with a chutney of your choice.
“Vegetable Appe”
The second most easy-to-make breakfast is a famous South Indian dish called Rava Appe/Appam. Rava or semolina is rich in vitamins and minerals. It’s a super healthy and scrumptious breakfast to start a day. You only need Appe/ appam pan which is easily available online or offline at a very affordable price. Vegetable Appe is a healthy and tasty breakfast and snack for everyone. This uses lots of veggies which makes it healthier and tastier too.
Ingredients
| semolina/ suji | 1 Cup |
| curd | 1/2 cup |
| 1 cup | 1/2 cup (chopped carrots, Onion, tomato) |
| Chaat masala | 1 teaspoon |
| Green chili | 1/2 Teaspoon |
| Baking soda | 1 Teaspoon |
| Oil | as required for cooking |
| For Tempering – | |
| mustard seed | 1/2 teaspoon |
| Curry leaves | 7 to 8 |
| Oil | 1/2 Teaspoon |
Process of Making
- 1. Take a bowl and add semolina, curd, and salt. Mix well and keep it aside for 20 minutes.
- 2. After 20 minutes, add water to make a thick batter like an Idli batter.
- 3. Mix all the vegetables in the batter.
- 4. Heat 1/2 teaspoon oil for tadka. Add mustard seeds and curry leaves. Add this tempering to the batter. Mix well.
- 5. Meanwhile, heat an appe pan. Pour the batter into each cavity. Sprinkle 2 to 3 drops of oil and cook it on a low flame. Cover it with a lid and cook.
- 6. Once it gets cooked from one side, flip it and cook it from another side too. Pour 2 drops of oil and cook on a low flame.
- 7. Once done, take it out on a plate.
Delicious ‘Vegetable Appe’ is ready to be served with any type of chutney. I love it with coconut chutney!
“Peanut poha”
Poha is a famous Maharashtrian dish also known as Kanda poha. Poha or chivda is flattened rice and it’s helpful for an upset stomach too. It’s rich in fiber, helps to control blood sugar levels, it’s a good probiotic, is a good source of carbohydrates, easy to digest. It’s used to make so many recipes but for now, I will be sharing the recipe for peanuts Kanda poha, which can be easily made in 20-25 minutes.
Ingredients
| Chivda/ flattened rice | 1 cup |
| Peanuts | handful |
| Curry leaves | 6-7 |
| Potato | 1 |
| Tomatoes | 1 large |
| Onion | 1 large |
| Turmeric | ½ teaspoon |
| Chilies | 3 |
| Mustard seeds | 1 tablespoon |
The procedure of making peanuts Kanda poha
- Wash the chivda or flattened rice and keep it aside.
- Slice onions, and split chilies.
- Chop potato and tomato in cubes.
- Now, heat a pan and add 1-2 tbsp of oil.
- Add mustard seeds and curry leaves. Let it pop.
- Now add onions and green chilies.
- When it’s lightly translucent add potatoes and tomatoes and add salt and turmeric.
- Cover a lid and cook it for some time.
- When tomatoes are nicely cooked with potatoes, add soaked flattened rice or chivda.
- Mix it well with potatoes and cover a lid.
- Cook it for 5 mins and take it off the stove.
- Serve it warm with coconut chutney.
“Coleslaw Sandwich”
The coleslaw sandwich can be the best option to start a day! on lazy days when you don’t feel like cooking a heavy breakfast, you can go with a crunchy mixed veg coleslaw sandwich. It’s an easy-peasy recipe. Not many efforts are needed. You can customize this sandwich however you want to. Just go to your kitchen and I am sure you have all the ingredients in your kitchen itself. Green and bright veggies are rich in vitamins and minerals. Having it for breakfast will be a great start to a day. such ingredients are readily available in the house of the bachelor, right? LOL. Jokes apart, let’s dig into the recipe.
Ingredients
| Brown bread/ white bread (I recommend brown bread otherwise you can use any bread | |
| Veggies (cabbage, carrots, cucumber, capsicum, tomatoes, onion) | |
| Mayonnaise | 4 tablespoon |
| Ketchup/ tomato sauce(optional) | 1- 2 tablespoon |
| Green Chutney(optional) | 1 tablespoon |
| Black pepper | 1 teaspoon |
| Salt- as per taste | |
| Butter/ cheese spread |
Procedure
- First of all, wash all the vegetables and Cut veggies into juliennes.
- Mix all the chopped veggies in a bowl, and add black pepper, salt, all the sauces, and mayonnaise. Mix it nicely.
- Now take some bread. Cut off its sides.
- Apply and spread butter/cheese spread on both sides of the bread.
- Take a mixture of veggies, and spread it on one side of the bread slice.
- Cover it with another slice of bread.
- You can enjoy it this way or you can grill both sides in a pan.
- Enjoy it with ketchup or sauce.
“Overnight oats”
One of the most simple and easy, healthy breakfasts it is. And I am sure you will thank me later for this breakfast idea.! Oats are rich in high vitamins and minerals like magnesium, iron, copper, vitamins, and zinc. It’s loaded with nutrition. So, I will be sharing basic overnight oats recipes. As there are varieties of oatmeal recipes on the internet. make this quick and easy breakfast recipe so you don’t have to wake up early in the morning. Prepare it at night and enjoy it in the morning.
Ingredients
| Plain rolled oats | 1 cup |
| Curd/milk | ¼ cup |
| Honey/ maple syrup/ brown sugar | 2 tablespoon |
| pumpkin seeds/sunflower seeds/ flax seeds/ chia seeds | |
| Dried berries | |
| Almonds/ dates | |
| Peanut butter | 1 tablespoon |
| Seeds for garnishing/toppings | |
| Banana | 1 large |
Process of Making
- Take a jar or a bowl.
- Combine oats, curd or milk, and any sweetener.
- Mixing it with liquid is just for soaking oats to make it soft.
- Add any sweeteners like honey, brown sugar, or maple syrup to make it sweet.
- Mix it well and refrigerate it overnight.
Yay! Your easy breakfast recipe is ready to eat, you only have to add garnishings.
“Vegetable Rava Upma”
How could I miss this delicious South Indian breakfast on the list of Easy healthy breakfast recipes? Rava is a great source of protein and healthy carbohydrates. It is considered much more nutritious than other cereals. Rava upma with the goodness of fresh vegetables in the morning is all you need to kickstart a day. There are a lot of recipes made with Rava, you can either make halwa out of it, plain upma, or vegetable upma. You only need a few ingredients and you are all set to make it in just a few minutes.
Ingredients
| Rava/semolina | 1 cup |
| Veggies – carrots, capsicum, green peas, tomato, onion. | |
| Mustard seeds | 1/4 teaspoon |
| Cumin seeds | 1/4 teaspoon |
| Curry leaves | 5-6 |
| Chilies | 2-3 |
| Salt | according to your taste |
So, let’s begin the recipe.
- Heat a pan, and add 4-5 tbsp of oil.
- Add 1 teaspoon mustard seeds, and ½ teaspoon cumin seeds, and let it pop.
- Now, add curry leaves and all the veggies, and cook it until it’s translucent.
- Use 2.5 to 3 cups of water for 1 cup of Rava.
- When veggies are translucent, now add water to them.
- Add 1 cup of Rava and stir it.
- Cover a lid.
- Cook it until all water is absorbed by Rava.
- Serve it warm with coconut chutney.
“Kala Chana(Black chickpeas) Salad“
The power pack, quick, and easy breakfast recipe among all is kala chana salad. Loaded with proteins and deliciousness. Black Chickpeas are rich in high-quality protein, which is very important for muscle building. Also, it’s rich in fiber, vitamins, calcium, etc. overnight soaked Black chickpeas are also recommended by doctors to cure many health issues. Kala Chana Salad is one of the healthy breakfast options for bachelors because You don’t have to put any much effort. Just soak a handful of black chickpeas overnight and customize it the next morning however you want to. In this article, I am sharing an Easy kala chana salad recipe.
Ingredients to make Kala Chana Salad
| Ingredients | Quantity |
| black chickpea/ kala chana | 1/2 cup |
| Roasted cumin powder | 1/4 tspn |
| Salt | as per taste |
| Lemon juice | 1 And 1/2 tablespoon |
| Cucumber | 1 medium |
| Freshly crushed Black pepper | 1/4 tspn |
| tomato | 1 small |
| Coriander leaves | 1 tbsp finely chopped |
| Onion | 1 medium |
| Green chilies | 2-3 |
| carrot | 1 medium |
| beetroot | 1/2 |
Process Of Making
- To make kala chana salad, wash and soak 1/2 cup of Black chickpea(kala chana) Overnight.
- The next morning, take a pressure cooker, and add in soaked black chickpeas with 1 and 1/2 cups of water, and salt. Pressure cook it until 2 -3 whistles.
- while the chickpeas are boiling, cut all the veggies
- After then, add boiled black chickpeas with veggies, add seasonings and your delicious kala chana salad is ready in just 10 minutes!
