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Sprouts for breakfast - Healthy eats WBB

As a vegetarian, I'm always looking for ways to include quality proteins in our diet. Since we are not too keen on dairy products or eggs - beans, lentils, sprouts and soy are our main options. I love oats porridge or wheat flakes as an easy breakfast as they are rich in fibre, but being low in prot

Ingredients
  

  • 1/2 cup 2-3 cups beans water dried chowli cooked as above in
  • 1/4 cup spring onions scallions chopped / with the white parts
  • 1 tomato finely chopped
  • 1 red chilli dried
  • 1/4 tsp mustard seeds
  • 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
  • 1/4 cup oats rolled
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp spice mix of choice [garam masala / dhania jeera / pav bhaji masala / rajma masala]

Instructions
 

  • In a wok, heat the oil. Splutter the mustard seeds, fry the dried red chilli for a few seconds.
  • Saute the spring onions till bright green and wilted. Next, put in the tomatoes and saute for a minute.
  • Add the cooked chowli sprouts with the water in which it was cooked along with the rolled oats.
  • At this time, put in the spice powders, salt and let it come to a simmer. The oats will absorb all the excess water as they cook. Remove into two serving bowls and eat it hot.

Notes

Notes:
This breakfast will keep you filled for a good 4-5 hours and will satisfy all those who like something savoury / spicy first thing in the morning. It also provides you a good percentage of the daily required 25-30 grams of dietary fibre, almost 4.5 g per bowl coming from the cowpeas itself.
Suganya at Tasty Palettes was the host of Weekend Breakfast Blogging for Feb, the theme being Healthy Eats..
This was prepared in mind keeping the event, but I'm late in posting! Hope to see lots of healthy breakfast eats in the round up.
Catch you there.