Start your day healthy!

We all know that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It’s the fuel our body needs to get us going through the day. If you are looking for the ultimate power breakfast to keep you full until lunch, consider these breakfast ideas which deliver a wholesome mix of carbs and protein. Executive sous chef Lokesh Jarodia at Novotel Imagica Khopoli has come up with these healthy recipes.

Bircher Muesli

Ingredients

• Oats 80 gm
• Plain yoghurt 40 gm
• Banana (chopped) 20 gm
• Raisin (chopped) 15 gm
• Walnut (chopped) 10 gm
• Almonds (chopped) 10 gm
• Honey 30 ml
• Orange juice 100 ml

Preparation

• Mix oats, apple, yoghurt, banana, raisins, walnuts, almonds, honey, and orange juice together in a bowl.
• Chill in chiller or walk-in for at least 1 hour to set.

Strawberry Parfait

Ingredients

• Muesli 50gm
• Curd 50 gm
• Strawberry puree 30 gm
• Honey 20 gm
• Maple syrup 10gm

Preparation:
In a glass, first arrange a layer of muesli, then strawberry puree, followed by curd.
Garnish with honey and maple syrup.

Missal Pav

Ingredients

• Green moong dal 30 gm
• Matki sprouts 30 gm
• Mixed bean sprouts 30 gm
• Farsaan 20 gm
• Sev 10 gm
• Onions 50 gm
• Tomato 100 gm
• Green chilli 1 no
• Jeera whole 2 gm
• Deggi mirch 2 gm
• Salt To taste
• Oil 10 gm
• Lemon 1 no
• Coriander powder 3 gm
• Ginger-garlic paste 30 gm
• Goda masala 2 gm

Preparation

• Heat oil, and add jeera, onion, tomato, chilli and ginger garlic paste into it. Saute the mixture nicely.
• Add all powdered masalas, then moong dal and matki and bean sprouts. Cook them well on low flame.
• Add farsaan at last and serve hot with Pav.

Egg Benedict
Ingredients

• Bacon 2 pieces
• Chopped parsley 2 gm
• Eggs 4 No
• Vinegar white 10 ml
• English muffin 2 no

Hollandaise Sauce:

• Unsalted butter 100 gm
• Egg yolk 3 No
• Lemon juice 10 ml
• Salt To taste
• Cayenne pepper To taste

Preparation

• Cook the bacon in a hot griddle. Now put water in a sauce pan, simmer it, add vinegar and poached eggs.
• Make hollandaise sauce and cut the English muffin into half and toast it.
• To assemble, butter one side of an English muffin. Top with two slices of bacon. Trim the bacon to fit the muffin.
• Put a poached egg on top of the bacon, and then pour some hollandaise over it. Sprinkle some parsley on it and serve hot.

Mix fruit Danish
Ingredients

• Butter block:
• Unsalted butter 225gm
• Maida 25gm

Danish pastry:

• Maida 500gm
• Salt 9gm
• Sugar 25gm
• Gluten 19gm
• Fresh yeast 19gm
• Bread improver 5gm
• Butter 21gm

Preparation:

• Knead the dough together, and then on the other side mix the dough and butter together to make tikki.
• Now keep dough and tikki in chiller till temperature equals. Then sheet it layer by layer.
• Arrange the tikki butter in the middle of the dough and lock the butter in the dough by folding 4 times.
• Keep the dough in chiller, and shape the Danish as required. After shaping Danish, bake in the oven at 220°c.
• Garnish with fresh fruits/ edible flowers.