Apples in waffles make an exciting combination. This recipe is healthy and has every ingredient possible to boost your happy molecules.

Ingredients:
- 2 cups of milk
- 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups of flour
- 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda
- 1/3 cup of melted butter
- 1 cup of finely chopped apples

How to make :
- In a bowl, whisk in the milk , eggs, .flour and butter, until it forms a smooth batter.
- Add apples in the mixture.
- Pour in the batter in a waffle iron and bake till crisp on the outside.

Prep Time:10 Minutes
Cook Time:5 Minutes
Total Time:15 Minutes

The beginnings always set the mood. A morning with a whiff of sweet romance is a sure shot start to a great valentines day. An exquisite valentines day meal need not be a difficult one. Just a little twist to the usual breakfast recipes will do the trick. Charm your partner this valentine with this sweet delight. The nutty fragrance of almonds along with the tartness of fresh strawberries is guaranteed to melt anyone’s heart.

Ingredients:

• 6 slices of bread
• ¼ cup of Milk
• 1-1/2 teaspoons of almond extract
• 1 ½ cup butter
• 3 tablespoons confectioners’ sugar
• Fresh strawberries sliced 

How to make :

• Cut out heart shaped pieces of bread through a cookie cutter.
• In a bowl, combine eggs, milk and ½ teaspoon almond extract
• Dip the bread pieces in the egg mixture.
• In a frying pan , melt 2 tablespoons of butter and cook them for 2-3 minutes on each side.
• For almond butter, combine confectioners’ sugar, the remaining butter and almond extract. Mix well.
• Sprinkle french toast with sugar. Serve with almond butter and sliced strawberries.

Prep Time:5 Minutes
Cook Time:10 Minutes
Total Time:15 Minutes

Ingredients:

• ½ package button mushrooms, sliced
• 2 cloves of garlic: minced
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon butter
• Pepper and salt
• A pinch of parsley
• 2 thick slices of whole wheat or multigrain bread

Procedure:

• Set the oven to 300 and preheat. Bake the bread at 180 for about 510 minutes or until the top is slightly golden.
• In a wok, heat butter and sauté the garlic. Add mushroom, salt, pepper and lemon juice. Cook for about 4-5 minutes on high-medium flame and add chopped parsley.
• Spread on bread and serve warm.
• *Since you are not Bipasha, adding some scrambled eggs to the mushroom will definitely add to the excitment of this dish.

A healthy alternative to traditional pancakes, we didn’t know about this until our friend from Darjeeling suggested it to us. Well, That’s how far as Tofu has reached from China we guess but once we tried it on a dull and dreary saturday morning, we fell in love with it.

Here’s to you a traditional English breakfast with a twist.

Ingredients:

• 1 box silken tofu
• or 1/4 cup low-fat cottage cheese
• 4 egg whites
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

• Blend all in a blender.
• Ladle batter on to a non stick pan and cook both sides until golden brown
• Maple syrup, honey, cranberry juice or cream with fresh fruits. Anything is slurrpable, just fine.

Oatmeal has graced our tables for ages or maybe even centuries and quite happily so. Step inside at 8:00 A.M in our house and you’d find steaming bowls of oatmeal, served and ready to be devoured. And quite contrary to popular opinion about oats, we used to love it: the twist was powdered cinnamon and a dash of vanilla!

This is how oatmeal gets cooked in our home and believe me this will be your family favorite too once you’ve tried this.

Ingredients

• Milk: 1/2 cup
• Water: 1/2 cup
• Sugar: 1tbsp
• Vanilla extract: 1/2 tsp
• Powdered cinnamon: 1/2 tsp + a bit for garnish
• Oats: 3 tbsp

Procedure

Boil the milk & water with vanilla and powdered cinnamon in athick bottomed pan. To this add oats and sugar. Cook till oats leave the side of the pan.

Pour in individual bowls and serve with a dash of cinnamon.

Sunday brunch! The name itself makes you feel so cozy! Getting up late, pampering yourself, treating your taste buds to some delicious platter, strolling by the beach- oh, it feels great to think about it anytime, any day!

And although this Sunday Brunch recipe that I’m going to share is something you’ll need to make ahead of your time, let me tell you, this will be so totally worth it! Make yourself a bunch of homemade herb bread and see how it nudges you to eat more!

Ingredients:

• Warm water: 2 cups
• Dry baker’s yeast: 2 tbsp
• Vegetable oil: 4 tbsp
• Sugar: 2 tbsp
• Salt: 2 tbsp
• All-purpose flour: 5 cups
• Mixed herbs: ½ teaspoon

Procedure:

Step 1: Add yeast to 2 cups of water and mix together. Pour in the salt, sugar and oil to the mixture and let it stand for half an hour.

Note: some recipes call for the mixture of salt to the flour and sugar to the yeast. That’s valid too.

Step 2: Grease a loaf pan with very little oil and keep aside.

Step 3: In a bowl, sift flower and add the yeast mixture. Mix it with a fork and gradually add all of the flour to form a ball around your fork. Take it out from the bowl, sprinkle some flour in your kitchen counter and knead it to form a smooth ball.

Step 4: Keep the dough on a clean bowl and cover it with a tea towel to rise. Let it rise for atleast an hour.

Step 5: Punch out all the air from the risen dough, give it another knead and in the shape you’d want, shape it up, place in your baking tray and let it rise for another half an hour to 45 minutes.

Step 6: Give it an egg wash (See recipe below) using a brush. Sprinkle the herbs on top and pop it in the preheated oven in 425 F. Bake for 20-25 minutes.

Egg wash recipe: One egg, 2-4 tbsp of water. Whisk it briskly and keep aside.

Try with with mayonnaise and olives in brine! Yum!

Okay, tell us what’s more tempting than lazying around in the couch on a Sunday? It’s the Sunday Brunch! Wake up at 10, make a cup of coffee and cook some waffles this Sunday and you’ll know what we mean.

A sweet rupture that makes your day completely dreamy, waffles had been the favorite choice for brunches since ages; whether with strawberries and fresh cream or with chocolate sauce or maple syrup. Waffles never goes wrong! Here’s how to make them:

Ingredients:

• All purpose flour: 1/2 cup
• Wheat flour: 1/2 cup
• Sugar: 1tbsp
• Baking powder: 2 teaspoon
• Eggs: 2
• Salt: A pinch of
• Milk: 1/2 cup + more if you need
• Butter: 2-3 tbsp

Procedure:

• Mix all the ingredients together to make a batter.
• Let it stand for 10 minutes
• Pour in a hot waffle iron and cook it golden.
•  Serve with whipped cream and strawberries or maple syrup.

Although it may sound quite Chinese, (add in your nasal tone, of course), you’d be thrilled to know that there is no such region or term or even a dish called Manchow in China. This, in actual, is made in India, a shining example of what we call, “Indian Chinese” and we are not too ashamed about it! Not as long as its tasty!

Count on us when we say that on a rainy day, a bowl full of hot Manchow from our dear Chinese corner and a couple of friends to tag along is the best thing you can do,unless you’d prefer to have it homemade, chiefly due to hygienic reasons: precisely why we cornered it in the first place!

NOTE: If you are a vegetarian, you can replace chicken with tofu and chicken stock with vegetable stock. You can make vegetable stock by boiling small amount of carrot, spring onion, capsicum and salt together. The boiled veggies can be used in making Pav bhaji.

Okay, here’s the ingredient:

• Carrot: 1 medium, finely chopped
• Cabbage: 1/4^th small, finely chopped
• Spring onion greens: 1 stalk, chopped
• Green capsicum: 1 medium, seeded and chopped
• Boiled chicken: 50 grams, shredded
• Mushroom: 3-4, finely chopped
• Noodles: 1 cup, boiled
• Spring onions: 2, finely chopped
• Garlic: 8-10 small cloves or 7-8 large, finely chopped
• Ginger: ½ inch, finely chopped
• Green chilies: 2, finely chopped
• Chicken stock: 5 cups
• Salt & white pepper powder to taste
• Red chili sauce: ½ tbsp
• Dark soy sauce: 2 tbsp
• Corn flour: 3 tbsp
• Vinegar: 1 tbsp

Procedure:

Step 1: Fry the boiled noodles and keep aside

Step 2: Add oil to a wok and stir in garlic, ginger, green chilies and spring onions. Sauté for a minute or two and add all the vegetables. After a couple of minutes, add the chicken and stir fry

Step 3: Add the chicken stock, salt and pepper and let it come to a boil.

Step 4: Add all the sauces and simmer it for a couple of minutes

Step 5: Dissolve corn flour in half a cup of chicken stock and pour it in. Cook until the soup thickens.

Serve hot with fried noodles, spring onion greens and vinegar.

Enjoy!

If you are in and around Mumbai, you’ll know a place called Panchgani. And if you know this place we are talking about, you’ll know why you just have to be there every after three months! Apart from its abundant natural beauty, Panchgani produces some of the sweetest berries that gets you addicted! Strawberries, mulberries, blue berries, sold by vendors, road side, its a treat if you can bring back a bag full properly: the next few days by default tends to be bright, uplifting and very berry days!

Here are some mulberry pancakes for the coming weekend that with its combination of sweet-tart taste would get you by the taste buds! Try it.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of self raising flour
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla
• 1/4 cup milk
• 1/4 cup mulberries
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 egg

Procedure:

Whisk all the other ingredients except mulberries. Let it stand for 5 minutes. Heat a non stick flat-bottomed pan. Mix the mulberries to your batter gently and pour by ladle: one spoon at a time. Cook until a light golden brown on both sides and serve warm with honey.

No other love for breakfast, we say!