Metabolism Boosting Breakfast Recipes
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Regardless of physical activity, eating high fibre cereal in the morning at least three times a week leads to having a lower body mass index.
Following are three breakfast recipes that will add a little variety to that all important meal, as well as supplying essential vitamins, minerals, enzymes and fiber.
Delicious Tropical Muesli
Serves 2 to 4. Preparation time - 10 minutes.
Ingredients
- Muesli - 100gm
- Wheat flakes- 50gm
- Apple - peeled and grated - 1no
- Low Fat or Skim Fruit Yogurt- 500gm
- Mango - peeled and cut into strips - 1no
- Passion fruit - pulp of 2
- Flaked almonds, toasted - 11/2 tsp
Preparation
Mix together muesli, wheat, apple and half the yogurt in a bowl and refrigerate covered overnight. Divide it into four serving bowls. Top evenly with remaining yogurt, mango, passion fruit pulp and flaked almonds and serve.
Choose plain low-fat yogurt for the fewest calories. Fruit and flavored products have extra calories. Nonfat yogurt sweetened with artificial sweetener is an option for dieters. Plain yogurt is the best choice for cooking.
Terrific Mango
Serves 2. Preparation time - 10 minutes.
Ingredients
- Mango- peeled and chopped -125 gram
- Chopped pineapple - 1 no
- Papaya- peeled and chopped- 125 gram
Kiwi fruits - chopped- 2 no
- Tropical fruit juice - 150 ml
- Honey- 2 tablespoon
Preparation
Mix all the fruit pieces together and pour the fruit juice and honey on top. This is an excellent dish to start your day.
Summer Special Salad
Serves 4. Preparation time - 20 minutes.
Ingredients
- Water melon - 1 no (medium size)
- Tomato - ½ kg
- Celery - 20 gram
- Orange -4 no
- Grapes -100 gram
- Pineapple (chopped) - 1 cup
- Raisins - 12 no
- Salt and pepper - to taste
Blend all the ingredients for the salad dressing in a mixer.
Preparation
Chop all the fruits and vegetables. Take the pulp out of the watermelon and put all the chopped fruits and tomatoes into the outer covering of the watermelon. Pour the salad dressing on top. Garnish with raisins. Serve chilled.
Eating fruit and vegetables raw gives you many of their vitamins undiminished by cooking processes. It also means you get enzymes which are great for helping the digestive process. Watermelon is rich in vitamin C and is also one of the few sources of lycopene, others being tomatoes, red grapefruit and guava. Lycopene is a particularly effective antioxidant.
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