Written By: Upneet Pansare | Updated : October 22, 2017 8:12 PM IST
There is a reason why they say breakfast is the most important meal of the day. A number of studies have shown that skipping breakfast leads to coronary heart diseases, high blood pressure and obesity, among other health conditions, according to Neeraj Mehta, Fitness Expert, Nutritionist. To ensure your body is up and running after you wake up, it is also important to have breakfast within a couple of hours of you waking up. Not many of us have the luxury of having someone else cook breakfast for us. So it s not surprising that so many of us end up skipping breakfast or eating something unhealthy like biscuits. With a little bit of planning and time management in the morning, we can make our breakfast and eat it too! All we need our quick breakfast recipes that are tasty, filling, nutritious and most importantly quick to make.
This popular breakfast/snack recipe is kobi cha bhanole which is basically a savoury cabbage cake. The description may not sound tempting, but after you ve made and tasted this recipe, I can bet you ll want to make it again and again. The best part? You can actually store this cake in your fridge for a couple of days or more. So you can easily whip up a batch on Sunday and eat it throughout the week. Bhanole is usually made either in the oven or is steamed and then shallow fried a little. I like to shallow fry it in a pan directly without steaming. Here goes the recipe:
Ingredients:
1 small cabbage finely chopped
1 onion chopped
1 tomato diced
2 green chillies chopped
cup soaked chana dal
1 tsp garam masala
1 tsp jeera
tsp hing
tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp red chilli powder
1 tsp ginger garlic paste
Salt to taste
1 tbsp oil
A bunch of coriander leaves
Method:
1. Drain the chana dal. Put it in the grinder along with chillies and ginger garlic paste. Grind this moisture together.
2. Put this mixture in the bowl along with cabbage, onion, tomato, garam masala, turmeric, salt, oil, red chilli podwer and coriander. Mix it well with a little water. The batter should be a little thick.
3. In a pan, heat some oil and put jeera seeds and hing.
4. Pour the mixture on the pan and cover with lid. Cook for about 5 minutes. The flip the other side.
5. It should turn a little brown on both sides.
6. Turn off the flame. Cut the round cake into squares.
7. Serve hot with chutney or ketchup.
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