Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, so you can’t afford to joke with choices when it comes to taste and nutrition.
Throw out the cereal and try one of our handpicked easy-to-make breakfast options outlined below. Many of them take less than 20 minutes to prepare before dashing off to work and school.
See if your favourite makes the list:
1. Fruit salad:
Ingredients: Red/green apples, bananas, red/green grapes, strawberries
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Recipe: Nicely cut up pieces of apples, bananas and a handful of grapes and strawberries, mix them up and you’re good to go. Pineapples may be yummy ingredients but cutting them up takes time, so we’ll let them go for now.
Photo credit: Premium Moission2. French toast:
Ingredients: 2-3 bread slices, 2 eggs and melted sugar or honey to taste
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Recipe: Shallow-fry a couple of egg-soaked bread slices and garnish with delicious honey.
Photo credit: Recipetineats3. Toasted sandwich:
Ingredients: 4 bread slices, butter, 1 tin of corned beef or 2 eggs
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Equipment: Sandwich toastmaker
Recipe:
Grease up insides of machine with butter to avoid bread from sticking
Lie flat two slices of buttered bread and add chunks of corned beef for a filling or egg whites and yolks
Place an additional slice on top each one and close up machine.
Put the cream and milk into a large pan and gently bring to just below boiling point. Meanwhile, in a large bowl, whisk the yolks, cornflour, sugar and vanilla. Gradually pour the hot milk mixture onto the sugar mixture, whisking constantly.
Wipe out the saucepan and pour the mixture back into it. Heat gently, stirring with a wooden spoon (see Steps 1 and 2, for stirring tips) until the custard is thickened, but before any lumps form. Eat hot or cold.
(Recipe source: BBC Good Food)
Photo credit: Myrecipes.com6.Pap (ogi or akamu):
Ingredients:
Wet Corn Starch
Water (Hot and Cold)
Evaporated Milk
Sugar (to taste)
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Recipe:
Put some lumps of raw pap (wet corn starch) in a big bowl to accommodate eventual rising
Crush the lumps of pap into very small pieces with a tablespoon
Mix with cold water in small quantities till you have a medium consistency
Pour in boiling water slowly but steadily in a circular motion, stirring in the process
Stop stirring and reduce the flow of water you are pouring till the pap has completely set.
Mix the corn starch/flour with the 700 mls of cold water in a pot.
Stir continuously with a wooden spatula even after it thickens to prevent lumps
Pour some water into pot and leave to simmer for about 10 minutes while covered on medium heat.
(Recipe Source: All Nigerian Recipes)
Photo credit:allnigerianrecipes8. Club Sandwiches:
Ingredients:
4 slices of bread
2 sardines
1 fresh plum tomato
1 medium carrot
¼ small cabbage
2 tablespoons mayonnaise or mayonnaise
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Recipe:
Clean and slice up vegetables neatly
Mash sardines separately with a fork and mix with the margarine/mayonnaise.
Add vegetables to mashed sardines and stir thoroughly
Spread your freshly prepared sardine-veg filling in between slices of crustless bread.
Photo credit: The Bitten Word9. Bread and scrambled eggs:
Ingredients: 2 eggs, 1 tablespoon of milk, frying oil, salt to taste
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Recipe:
Beat egg whites, yolk and milk in a plastic bowl and season with salt
Pour into frying pan and stir gently with spatula as it thickens.
Leave to cook for a couple of minutes, and you’re good to go with a loaf of hot, fresh bread
Photo credit: Kcuisine10. Hotdogs:
Ingredients:
2 frozen Frankfurters
2 hotdog buns
2/3 tomatoes
Ketchup for taste
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Recipe:
1. Heat up frozen frankfurters in a microwave for a couple of minutes. Alternatively, you can steam it up in boiling, hot water for 2-3 minutes
2. Chop up tomatoes into neat slices
3. Place frankfurters and tomato slices into buns and top up with some ketchup. Voila!
Photo credit: Deviant Art (Mind Fresher)
There you go! You never have to skip breakfast again.
Did we miss any of your favourites? Share them with us below.
Ify Halim is a Writer and media enthusiast based in Lagos. She enjoys writing self-help/inspirational articles with published work in UYD Magazine, Edufrica, Our Stories Inc. and The Keele Concourse. She currently works at ConnectNigeria.com, Nigeria’s Information Portal. Follow her on Twitter @MissHalim or visit her online space at ifyhalim.wordpress.com
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