Breakfast – Time to have a Feast!
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Contrary to this suggestion, many people ignore breakfast on a daily basis. This is why I’m cooking a feast for my family – to make up for the mornings I just gulp a cup of coffee, while the kids have cold cereal. I’m really inclined to Asian cuisine – Thai or Chinese or Indian is my favorite. Just the other day, while browsing through some book trailers, I chanced upon a neat recipe book called The Fortnightly Breakfast .
This is a South Indian recipe book for breakfast and some side dishes. The side dishes alone go great with the main dishes – and there are four to a meal. This is not normal breakfast for a Western table, and all are spicy – guaranteed to wake you up better than a cup of coffee. In Asian and Indian homes, rice and grams (lentils) are the predominant items in everyday recipes. With those ingredients, and a few additions, there is a lot of variety of dishes that can be made.
Some combinations have lots of fiber, proteins, and are very rich in vitamins and iron. The spices sprinkled on dishes are harmless and the ingredients are suitable for all ages. If you notice, people from the South Indian culture are very thin and healthy. Their delicious meals do not have items such as gluten that most people have a hard time processing in their digestive systems and may even become sick from. They don’t have processed items in their recipes either.
You need to maintain an ideal weight to be healthy. To do this, you need to incorporate some fantastic Indian food into your diet plan. If you keep things interesting, you won’t get too bored on your diet, and you may end up losing more weight than your other friends who are also on diets. South Indian food is touted to be the healthiest food on the planet. It also has vitamins, minerals, and many spices that we use here in America for sources of natural healing. Spices like turmeric are put into capsules to help cleanse the body of toxins.
Curry is also used to help heal the common cold, and maybe even cancer. More research is being done, but it is nonetheless true. Many of the varieties mentioned are ideal for travel and can be served cold. So, what are you waiting for? Try some of these fabulous recipes, and your breakfast will never be the same. All of these recipes are to be prepared the night before in order to be able to wake up and cook.
Have you seen any of those Bollywood movies? Those Indian males are good enough for breakfast – only they’ve got too much spice in them. So, yes, Indian recipes for now, just because I needed something to trim down my waistline. Oh well, credit it to marzipan* with crunchy bits of slivered almonds. My kids are already making a racket outside where Jonathan has set up the pingpong table. Well, it’s a Sunday- enjoy!
(* Recipe available here.)
Your Indian chef today,
Sandra Ross
