Egg Recipes: The Wholesome Diet
I love eggs!! Infact eggs are the essential part of our balanced diet.
Eggs are the most complete and naturally produced foods which are loaded with lots of nutrients such as proteins and vitamins. They provide you lots of calcium, iron and zinc. They also consists of less calories and fat.
Eggs are the most adaptable ingredient that can be used to prepare numerous delicious dishes. For example, you can use eggs in making dessert items such as puddings, or you can simply scramble or fry the eggs So here i am going to present some of the wonderful egg delights which can be served as breakfast or as snacks for you and your kids to relish.
Potato and Egg Sandwich:
One of my favorite recipe...it's an easy recipe which won't take more than 4-5 minutes to make a filling sandwich.
The ingredients required are: egg, boiled potatoes, butter, olive oil, bread, salt plus pepper.
You can begin with heating an olive oil in a pan and break the egg and cook for 1 minute. Add some salt and pepper and turn the side. Allow it to cook for a minute. Remove it from heat and keep aside. Take two slices of bread, spread low fat butter on one side of each slice. Between the slices of bread, put half of the cooked egg, then thin boiled potato slices. You can add little salt, pepper and few grated cheese. Put the other half of the cooked egg on top. Place in a sandwich toaster with buttered side facing up. Allow it to cook for a minute on each side. Your toasted sandwich is ready to eat.
Egg Salad:
To make egg salad, you will need:
6 eggs, 2 boiled potatoes, 1 capsicum, 1 onion, 1 tomato, 2tsp lemon juice, chopped coriander leaves, salt plus pepper to taste.
To prepare the egg salad, you can cut the eggs into halves. Take away the yolk from the egg and mix it with boiled potatoes. Add salt, pepper, lemon juice and chopped fresh coriander leaves. Fill egg whites with this prepared mixture. You can serve the egg salad along with thin strips of onion rings, chopped capsicum or tomatoes.
Since egg is a very versatile food item, you can try other ingredients too and come up with different varieties of dishes from it.
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