Tasty Breakfast Recipes for Bodybuilding
Food is the one of the essential component in bodybuilding. If you are not eating the right thing then the results will be far from from your expectation. Workout and proper routine are also necessary for building muscles. With out these things building muscles is quite difficult task.
We will come back to workout and routine sometime in the near future, but for this article we will discuss about some tasty recipes which you can enjoy without compromising with health.
Sometimes eating healthy food turns out to be boring and tasteless but you can avoid eating these food items since you can not compromise with your health. So if you want to eat something which is tasty and healthy at the same time then this collection is for you.
In order to get something healthy and tasty we need to be concerned with some aspects of nutrition such as Calories, carbs and etc.
Here are some of the aspects.
1. The food needs to be high in Protein.
2. Low in fat.
3. Moderate in Carbs.
4. Minimum sugar.
5. Contain some amount of other essential nutrients such as Vitamins and Minerals.
1) Cheese Omelette.
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| Cheese Omelette |
After seeing the title of the first food item you might be in a thought that "how cheese omelette could be tasty ?" But yes, Cheese is not as unhealthy as you might think. Even if you consider this in your cheat meal then it there is no concern with it since it contains eggs and eggs are complete source of animal based protein.
Ingredients
4 egg whites and 2 whole eggs
Chopped Tomato, Onion and Chili and you can add coriander leaves if you want to.
Low fat Cheese (processed will be great rather than mozzarella)
Olive oil or Non Stick Edible spray
Salt as per taste.
Recipe
1. Let the pan heat on Medium flame and apply olive oil or spray cooking spray and let it heat up.
2. Mean while collect the egg whites, egg and add onion, tomato, chili and salt according to your preference. If you want then you could add Turmeric(Haldi) and Red Chili Powder (Lal Mirch Powder) as per taste.
3. When the pan is hot enough add the egg mixture and let it cook.
4. Cook on both side if you like or Add grated Cheese over the other side and let the raw eggs cook with cheese on top.
Top it up with low cal peri peri or tomato ketchup
This meal comprise of 24 grams on complete protein 12-16 grams of fat with minimum Carbs. Tomato has Vitamin C and Turmeric is good for skin if you add it too.
2) Oats Pancake
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| Pancake |
But in this recipe there is no gluten.
This recipe is high in protein and carbs as well.
Ingredients
4 egg whites or Whole eggs as your preference. (egg yolks are high in fat).
1&1/2 cup rolled oats.
Milk (optional) [if you add milk then you might need to increase the amount of oats as required]
2 Tbsp Sugar or Sugar Free Tablet (optional)
Vanilla Essence 1tsp (optional)
Small amount of Butter or Non Stick Cooking Spray.
Recipe
1. Add all the ingredients in a blender and mix. Since oats need to blended with all the ingredients. Let is sit for 15 mins.
2. Heat the pan on medium low flame.
3. When the pan is hot enough spray the non stick cooking spray or apply small amount of butter and add the batter.
4. Do not flip the batter until larger number of bubbles starts to appear on top.
5. Cook on both the sides.
You can serve it with honey or maple syrup. Do not serve it with whipping cream since it would increase the calories.
Depending on what part of egg you have used the protein content varies from 12-24 grams.
3) High Protein Chocolate Oatmeal
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| Chocolate Oatmeal |
Oatmeal might turnout to be boring at some point. Some people find out oats being their enemy in food since the first time they try. Although oatmeal is healthy the taste is not so plausible and on eating it at daily basis is a horrific job to do.
Here is one of the recipe which will turn your oatmeal much tastier than it was before if you have sweet tooth like me.
Ingredients
1/2 or 1 cup of oats.
1 or 1/2 cup of milk or water [as per your preference]
1 scoop of whey protein or egg protein
Note :- The protein powder suggested here should be unflavored. If it is flavored then you should not add the next ingredient in the list.
1 tbsp Cocoa Powder.
Recipe
1. Add the oats to the water or milk and microwave or heat it on a stove until you find it cooked.
2. Add the cocoa powder before taking it of from the stove and stir it.
3. Let the oatmeal cool down and then add 1 scoop of Unflavored Protein Powder and mix it.
Serve with strawberries on top.
So these were some of the Breakfast recipes We like to share with you. Please try these out and do share your experiences with us.
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