‘Breakfast’, the word itself denotes the deep meaning lying behind, which is ‘breaking fast’. Hence, rightly said, it is the most important meal of the day. Although it is hard to believe, but among meals, it is breakfast which mostly determines our health condition. A good and balanced breakfast is one of the main reasons behind one’s fitness, alertness, intellect and good mood. A nutritious breakfast kick-starts our metabolism, provides sufficient energy to our brain and thus helps in our ability to concentrate. Also, a healthy and complete breakfast tends to keep us full, thus indicating the body to avoid any unnecessary junk intake, which in turn helps in maintaining a healthy weight.
So much benefits from the first meal of the day, it is obvious that it is breakfast which also calls for utmost care, planning and preparation. But, as we all are privy to the fact, that on very rare occasions do reality and perfection go hand in hand. Thus, in this case also we have to overcome couple of hurdles to arrive at what we actually want. Although everyday we want to start our day with a perfect dose of health and taste, but we seldom get the chance to fulfil our desire in a proper way. Unfortunately, though breakfast is the most important meal, but due to our hectic day in day out schedule, it is during breakfast that we are the busiest, juggling between most of our responsibilities. And, in the race against time, it is during breakfast we ignore our basic nutrients requirement and tend to compromise on the contents by replacing with something which is easily available. Thus, neither the need for health nor the need for taste get their fair dues😌.
Having said that and bringing forth the scary side of life, does not mean we cannot fix or correct the situation😊. Although it is difficult to change our busy schedule, but with proper planning and patience, we can rectify our breakfast intake by introducing and tweaking dishes that will take care of our requirement of taste, health and most importantly our tight schedule. ‘Paneer Egg Bhurji or Scrambled Egg & Cottage Cheese Recipe’ is one such dish, where we have the goodness of both paneer or cottage cheese and the super food egg. What else! The dish is equally quick to make as well as to eat, thus ticking off all the criteria of a perfect breakfast, that we require for our busy mornings. Yes, you may just need the support of a roti or a slice of bread or probably you may not need anything, as the dish is sufficient in itself and you are ready to face the day full of excitement and surprises. Also, there is no prize for guessing that the dish Paneer Egg Bhurji is delicious to taste, combining the benefits and the divine taste of paneer and my ever-favourite egg.
So, get on to the step-by-step recipe of ‘Paneer Egg Bhurji Or Scrambled Egg & Cottage Cheese’, to start the day on a perfect note.
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Recipe: Paneer Egg Bhurji Or Scrambled Egg & Cottage Cheese Recipe
Preparation Time: 15 minutes (approx.) Cooking Time: 28 minutes (approx.) Equipment Used: A knife, a cutting board, a pan and a turner Yield: Serves 3-4
Ingredients:
- 200 gm paneer or cottage cheese
- ½ garlic or 15 cloves of garlic
- 1 medium sized onion
- 1 tomato
- 2 green chillies
- ½ cup chopped coriander leaves
- 3 tablespoon refined oil
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon turmeric powder
- 3 eggs
- ¼ teaspoon garam masala powder
- 1.7 inch X 1.2 inch ginger
- ¼ teaspoon sugar
Method:
- Take out the paneer or cottage cheese few hours in advance if the paneer is refrigerated
- Crumble the paneer and keep it aside
- Chop the garlic cloves, onion, tomato and green chillies
- Soak the coriander leaves in water and keep them aside
- Heat a pan and heat oil in the pan once the pan is hot
- Temper the oil with chopped garlic once the oil turns hot
- Add chopped onion and fry the onion once the garlic pieces are sauteed
- Once the onion pieces are fried or the onion pieces start turning golden brown, add chopped tomato and chopped green chillies
- Mix the ingredients and add ½ teaspoon salt and ½ teaspoon turmeric powder
- Add eggs one by one and mix each egg immediately after adding the same into the pan
- Stir continuously till the eggs are completely fried and no gooeyness remain
- Add the crumbled paneer and stir till the paneer pieces completely mix with the other ingredients
- Add garam masala powder and grate the ginger piece into the bhurji
- Taste and adjust salt. I have added ½ teaspoon salt alongwith ¼ teaspoon sugar
- Switch off the flame and chop and spread coriander leaves on top of the dish
Take out the paneer or cottage cheese few hours in advance from refrigerator.
Crumble the paneer. Chop and keep vegetables ready.
Heat oil.
Temper the oil with chopped garlic.
Fry the onion.
Add chopped tomato and chopped green chillies.
Add ½ teaspoon salt and ½ teaspoon turmeric powder.
Add eggs one by one and mix each egg immediately after adding the same into the pan.
Stir continuously till the eggs are completely fried.
Add the crumbled paneer and stir till the paneer pieces mix with the other ingredients.
Add garam masala powder.
Grate the ginger piece into the bhurji.
Taste and adjust salt.
Add sugar.
Switch off the flame and chop and spread coriander leaves on top of the dish.
Tips:
- Soak the coriander leaves in water way ahead of adding them into the dish, so that the leaves get rid of sand and dust particles
- In case you are using non-stick pan, heat the pan on low flame
- I prefer to cook the eggs first, so that the particles of egg can be tasted separately from paneer particles. But you can add paneer and egg together, or can add paneer before egg. The choice is yours
