Appam and Stew
Kerala Style Appams are thin lacy, bowl-shaped pancakes, generally served for breakfast, made from fermented rice flour and coconut milk. They derive their shape from the small special curved shape pan in which it’s cooked, which is called appachatti in malayalam. If you don’t have appachatti, don’t worry…you can make it in a normal skillet or non-stick pan just like a pancake. They are fairly neutral in taste and mostly served with some spicy curry, vegetarian or non-vegetarian stews or with normal milk and sugar.
Poori Masala
Poori also spelled as puri, is a popular breakfast recipe in different parts of India. It is a small disc shaped bread that is deep fried in oil and served with curries such as poori masala, chana masala (kadala curry) etc. It is usually made with either wheat flour or maida or using both the flours. An important tip while kneading for poori’s is to add semolina/rava which will improve its taste. Adding oil/ghee while kneading gives a slight crunch to the soft poori. Always make sure that while deep frying, do not fry them in very hot oil as the pooris will get the burnt colour and lose their perfect flavour.
Drumstick Leaves Omelette
Drumstick leaves omelette or muringayila omelette is a breakfast dish, which provides high nutritional value to both adults and children. This non spicy breakfast made with eggs and drumstick leaves contains all the vitamins and proteins provided by both eggs and drumstick leaves. Drumstick leaves are used as a traditional medicine for stomach pain, cancer, high blood pressure, etc. This recipe is very simple and easy to make and requires very few ingredients. To make this recipe more spicy, you can add crushed black pepper to it.
Ragi Semiya Upma
Ragi Semiya Upma is another healthy, quick and easy breakfast recipe with ragi semiya. Ragi also called finger millet in English, is high in nutrition and has plenty of health benefits. You can make both sweet and savoury version of this ragi upma. I like a bit of spice in this recipe so I add chillies. For children, you can use make the sweeter version of this ragi semiya upma. For this, just sprinkle a teaspoon of sugar when the dish is warm.