5 healthy and easy to make breakfast choices in India and their health benefits

These 5 breakfast dishes can make your morning healthy and tasty.

These dishes are so easy to make and on top of that, they keep your tummy in check as well. They are part of our everyday Indian lifestyle.

You must have heard many people saying, “breakfast is the most important meal of the day”. Yea, we completely agree, but does it have to be something that you cannot eat every day? How about something from our mom’s choice, something delicious yet healthy enough to keep you balanced.

Breakfast could be your morning ’way to go’ if you choose right and healthy. Don’t worry, we won’t suggest you any hardcore health diet for your breakfast. We will not be telling you the whole recipe of these dishes either. You can find hundreds of methods of making those dishes on YouTube anyway so why waste your time. So, we’ll tell you how these dishes are healthy and best suited for Indian people all things considered.

Poha

Now, who among you haven’t heard of the legend of the Poha? To be frank, I kept Poha in the first place because it’s my favorite breakfast dish, call it favoritism if you want. ‘English people’ call it flattened rice or rice flakes, but we don’t do that here.

Being the soul food of north India, especially the Malwa region of Madhya Pradesh, it does pack some very genuine health benefits. But first, projecting it as a healthy dish, we do not recommend to add potato and peanuts in Poha.

So, the first benefit of having Poha in breakfast is that its easily digestible. Despite of it being light food, it can keep you full for quite some time. Its one of the first choices of people who are focused on losing weight. It has high energy density carbohydrates with a low percentage of fat.

Its an Iron-rich dish and helps your body maintain the blood sugar level. Its considered a low-calorie food with 76.9% of healthy carbohydrates. It does not create problems of acidity and gas and that’s why lazy people love Poha. After reading this I’m sure many of you must be craving for a bowl full of Poha. Well, Go ahead.

Rawa Upma

Upma originally is a South Indian dish but it has managed to intensely popularize itself in North India. The main reason is its easy recipe, great taste and nutritional value. There are more than 60 variants of Upma available throughout the nation. Today, you can get spiced Upma in almost every restaurant in all parts of the country.

The best thing about Upma is that it is highly customizable according to your taste and ingredient availability. On top of that, it is considered a highly nutritious dish. You can find Upma in the breakfast choices of many big celebrities.

A bowl of Upma can give you vital vitamins, high fiber content and healthy carbohydrates like Poha. It digests slowly and like Poha, it keeps you full for an even longer duration. So, it can be your everyday go-to if you want to lose weight speedily. Upma is an Iron-rich food because of Semolina as its main ingredient. It has many other necessary minerals and when packed with green vegetables, it can easily fulfill your daily nutrition demand.

Soupy Oats Noodles (New)

This one time I made masala oats (Saffola Masala oats) and added a packet of Maggi in it with vegetables and stuff. You know that Maggi is not something you should eat for breakfast. But when you make it with oats, it becomes healthy enough. Anyway, it’s about Masala oats, our 3^rd breakfast dish, easy to make and extremely nutritious.

I know many people don’t like raw cooked oats, there’s no taste in it. But it’s a different story with masala oats, when packed with peas, carrot and all other green vegetables you can find.

Oats is a type of cereal grain grown in fields just like wheat and barley. Its not quite a part of Indian food habits yet but its popularity is growing with each day. The main reason is that its highly recommended by all the fitness experts in the world.

Oats are called whole grain and are gluten-free, high fiber, minerals and antioxidants food, its something you just can’t ignore. Oats contain a powerful fiber category called Beta Glucan that can lower cholesterol levels, protecting you from all kinds of heart disease.

The quality of antioxidants present in it can improve your blood sugar level. They are particularly healthy for the skin, helps in preventing childhood asthma, controls aging symptoms and many more. You can read more about the benefits of eating oatmeal also known as Porridge, here

Spicy vegetable Dalia

Now, this is a dish that you cannot deny or have any alternative of. Dalia is a part of the Indian lifestyle as well as food habits. It is an Indian superfood, made from raw wheat and can be made in hundreds of different variants.

You must already know 3-5 ways of making Dalia, with vegetables and masala like Maggi, regular boiled Dalia with milk, fried in oil with spices and boiled afterward and likewise.

Dalia contains super quality of fiber, perfect for weight loss program and a rich source of manganese, potassium and iron. It’s a low-fat diet and recommended for diabetic people and those with abnormal digestion.

In a remarkable study, it was found that Dalia reduces the risk of breast cancer to a great extent. It takes time to digest and provide you with enough fiber and minerals to complete your daily needs.

Seviyan Kheer

Seviyan is the most common and popular food of North and North-West India. It is called Vermicelli in English (I came to know this while writing this blog), sounds fancy, isn’t it?

It is considered a dessert when cooked with a decent quantity of milk and dry fruits (fried in ghee). Regardless, it is easy to make, the best way to put milk in you and it tastes amazing.

Seviyan kheer gives you combined benefits of milk (Proteins, Vitamin A & B12, Calcium & Phosphorus, Riboflavin ), wheat (Fibre, Iron, Thiamine, Vitamin B6 & numerous minerals ) and dry fruits (Vitamins E, Omega-3 fatty acids, Fiber and Antioxidants).

Seviyan Kheer at breakfast can provide you some rare yet vital nutrients which you might not get from your regular diet. For those, especially girls, who passionately dislike milk, it is a quite tasty way to put milk in you.

Our Indian lifestyle has a way to create a kind of importance for certain things which often turn out to be beneficial. You can experience this with many things around you.

If a certain dish, a habit, some tree or even your feelings are beneficial to you and people around you, you will find them somehow attached to some auspicious day or festival or even a religious ritual.

It’s the specialty of our culture. It can make you do things that may not look good and logical to you at first, but in reality, they can benefit you more than you can imagine.

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