An Indian Oatmeal Breakfast that makes you Feel Vital and Alive

A great way to increase your greens is to have green vegetables for breakfast. I love broccoli and scrambled eggs or a spinach omelette. However sometimes the healthy option per se does not float the boat. I love curries for breakfast, whilst it sounds weird once you have lived in South India, and tasted a masala dosai for breakfast there is no going back. As the weather gets fresher, or even colder in the morning then it is time toi think of thick oatmeal breakfasts redolent with spices.

Healthy Indian Oatmeal breakfast.

Ingredients

1 cup thick whole grain Oatmeal,

1 1/2 cups of Soy or Almond Milk
Large piece of Jaggery, (use thyme honey as a substitute)

Cardamoms crushed

Almond, cashew butter to serve.

Method

First grind the oatmeal coarsly if you like a smoother porridge, though I prefer to use it as is. I dry roast it for two minutes to give it a lovely colour. Add the milk to the porridge, add the sweetener and the cardamoms, and cook in hte microwave for ten minutes on high. Eat it hot or warm, with cashew or almond butter, it thickens on cooling. Sometimes if I am feeling superindugent I also add almonds and golden raisins roasted in ghee. I also love it with fresh dates as the seentener it then gives a sticky toffee pudding oatmeal breakfast.

Pumpkin Oatmeal

Ingredients

1 cup vanilla oat milk or soy milk

1 cup thick whole grain rolled oats

large slice of pumkin steamed and mashed with a fork,

small piece of cinnamom stick,

thyme honey,

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract,

To serve top with

2 teaspoons of almond butter, cashew butter or peanut butter.

Method

Add the milk to the oats and stir, then add the flavourings and the pumkin puree, microwave on half power for five minutes. In theory this is suffucuent to last two mornings in practise it is so scrummy gorgeous that it tends to get eaten immediately.