Breakfast for the Week!

If your daily breakfast is boring, puts you back in a slumber, and adds that extra curves, it’s time for some breakfast makeover. Breakfast makeover doesn’t have to mean that you torture your mornings with a glass of tasteless milk or treat yourself to a boring combo of bread and butter. You can always kick-start your mornings with a set of creative morning meals.

Here is how you can plan out some early morning fun!

Mondays

Start your day with a two-egg omelette every Monday. Dress it up with spinach to start with a healthy dose of proteins. When it comes to having breakfast, nothing beats eggs. They contain eight amino acids and are extremely nutritious. Doctors suggest that one must have eggs daily, but twice or thrice a month would do good too. Bon Appetit! Many best breakfast places in Mumbai are famous for serving the best 2 egg omelette.

Tuesdays

Treat yourself with quinoa cereals with apple, cinnamon and flaxseeds sprinkled all over. Quinoa is loaded with fibre and proteins and hence makes for a good start to Tuesdays!

Wednesdays

Make it porridge for Wednesdays. Dress it up with cinnamon and berries. Cinnamon is clinically proven to stabilise blood sugar levels and helps curb sugar cravings. It also boosts high level of proteins and fibre.

Thursdays

Try scrambled tofu with tomatoes for healthy Thursdays. Not only is tofu a source of omega 3 fatty acids but also helps fight sign of menopause.

Fridays

Go with a low GI breakfast scrambled eggs and feta for Fridays. Low GI carbs release energy into your bodies slowly and hence help keep your energy levels consistent throughout the day.

Saturdays

Kick off the weekend with a delightful concoction of avocado, basil and tomato on freshly baked bread.

Sundays

It’s Sunday, and you are free to pamper yourself to a weekend treat. Have pancakes with a dollop of natural yoghurt for a perfect weekend meal. You can visit a top restaurants in Mumbai for the same too.

Spicing up the lamb burgers in Pitas

A lamb burger recipe sounds pretty fine, not dramatically easy, but neither particularly difficult too. Something a person who has a fetish for non-vegan culinary stuff wouldn’t mind trying once in a while.

The recipe I came across on a television show was a different one though. Till now I was living under an assumption that burger is just served in a pita. But the show broke the confines of my assumptions- the burger is cooked in a pita!

Well that was something never even heard of before, let alone tried. But then, an ardent non-vegan, I had to try that version of lamb burger. I had no reason for doing so, I just had to.

So I hopped into the apron, all geared up to take the challenge. It wasn’t one of the most daunting, time-consuming recipes ever neither was the effort way too draining. The burger baby just demands attention- plenty of it too—to grill it to the right temperature and level in order to bring out the delectable flavour. It’s not difficult though—the pitas need to be just filled and sealed properly. You just need to shift and turn the pitas around in order to prevent them from getting charred. Sprinkle the lamb with coriander and cumin, cinnamon, salt and pepper and cover and chill for at least one hour. 

Prepare the pitas and open one pita one at a time by cutting along the seam, halfway around the perimeter. Spoon-fill into the pitas and spread the veggies till the edges. Grill the pitas until the insides are thoroughly cooked and the bread is crisp.

And believe me, it works. Like wonders.

Cooking burgers in pitas is a delightfully wonderful stuff. The lamb is flavourful and the coriander and cinnamon adds delectability to it. The genius idea can as well be applied to tenderloin steak as well.

Breakfast to Gain Weight

In a world which is struck with obesity as an endemic and the obese lot while trying to lose weight by practicing several methods as can be seen in their calorie consciousness at several breakfast places in Delhi. There are others who are struggling to gain weight due to multiple reasons.

Several conditions which might result in an individual’s inability to gain weight include but is not limited to genetics, high metabolism and fussy eating habits. One of the easiest ways to gain weight is to eat piles of delicacies like pastries and several fried palates in a restaurant in Vasant Kunj or cooking these in your home itself. However take a note that this is not a healthy way of gaining weight. In spite of gorging on thoughtlessly it is essential to gain weight in a manner which is natural. Apart from these fried and other stuffed with calories food it is important to include natural and healthy food in your meal plan. Go for high energy and nutrient rich food for weight gain. Here are some foods which you should be incorporating in your breakfast regime:

-Oatmeal Peanut Porridge

“100 grams of oatmeal provides you with 400 calories and 28 grams of unsalted peanuts give you about 166 calories” quotes a renowned health magazine. What better than including health and taste at the same time! Begin by dry roasting the oats and then soak them in a cup of water. Now add some water in a pan and add roasted oats with water. Cook it for 3 minutes while stirring it continuously. Now remove the pan from fire and add peanuts and raisins to it followed by milk and honey. To make it more interesting, add banana slices to it. Serve it hot in any breakfast placein Delhi.

-Dry Fruit chocolate milkshake

Begin by adding banana, almonds and dates to the blender. Blend this mixture to have a smooth paste. Add Nesquik and mix it, followed by the addition of milk and blend it to have a thick and smooth milkshake. Serve it hot to enjoy it early morning.