5 Easy Yet Nutritious and Delicious Recipes For Breakfast

Milk can serve as the ultimate ingredient for many easy yet nutritious and delicious breakfast dishes. Check out the recipes for these 5 yummy breakfast dishes from milk in our article!

Table of Contents:

1. Milk mixed with granola
2. Milk mixed with cereal and fruits
3. Fresh fruits, cheese, and yogurt, served with milk
4. Milk and fruit ice-blended
5. Milk ice-cream with granola

1. Milk mixed with granola

Granola bar and milk are 2 easy to find ingredients that can be combined to serve as a mouth-watering breakfast dish. It’s of course very nutritious and can give you enough energy to kick-start a bright day.

Ingredients:

• Granola bars
• Sugar-free milk
• Fruits (cherries, grapes, berries, strawberries, banana, etc)

Recipe:

• Step 1: add some granola bars onto a bowl with quantity based on your preference
• Step 2: pour milk onto the bowl. Base the amount of milk and how much “milk-dipped” of the granola bars you want on your preference. Likewise, you can choose to add the granola bars before pouring the milk or vice versa. Each way will result in a different degree of “milk-dippedness” or crispness of the granola.
• Step 3: add slices of cherries, grapes, berries, strawberries, bananas, etc, for more flavors and freshness

 

2. Milk mixed with cereal and fruits

Ingredients:

• Cereal (half a serving)
• Fruits (half a serving): it’s advisable to use fruits of fresh, juicy, sweet-and-sour flavors, to balance the dry crispness of cereal and the bland taste of sugar-free milk.
• Sugar-free milk

Recipe:

• Step 1: add cereal and fruit slices onto a bowl with quantity based on your preference.
• Step 2: pour milk onto the bowl. Base the amount of milk and whether to milk-pour on the cereal or fruit area on your preference. Mix them up all the way and try!
• Step 3: add some slices of sweet-and-sour, fresh cherries, grapes, or strawberries on top. The taste and color of the fruits will surely increase the “yummy-ness” of this dish.

Tips:

The majority of cereal products available on market are fortified with nutrients (fortified cereal), with added nutrition of vitamin A, B1, B2, B3, B6, B12, D and zinc, iron, calcium – that are beneficial to health. (1)

It’s advisable to use fortified cereal products to meet minimum recommended dietary intake (RDI).

Besides, you still need to choose cereal products that contain low amount of sugar and additives at safety levels (such as Oatmeal of Quaker – available in Vietnam’s major supermarkets). Closely following the amount of daily nutrition intake for moderate, sufficient consumption of nutrients is also advisable.

 

3. Fresh fruits, cheese, and yogurt, served with milk

Ingredients:

• Sugar-free milk
• Yogurt (standard/less sugar/sugar-free, with added flavor, etc)
• Cheese (commercial types of domestic brands, cheddar, mozzarella, or specialty types such as brie, comte, camembert, etc)
• Fruits (sweet-and-sour types for freshness: grapes, kiwi, berries, strawberries, banana, cherries, etc)

Recipe:

Cut fruits and cheese into slices or small pieces and eat together to “experiment” new, surprisingly yummy tastes. Milk and yogurts should be drunk by small sips to balance the dry feels of fruits and cheese.

This recipe allows you to eat more fresh, nutritious food without feeling fed up. This recipe also gives you a healthy, pleasant feeling of fullness.

Tips

There has been so far no scientific evidence against eating fruits in the morning (2), which is popularly claimed to have negative impact on our digestive system or health.

Eating fruits in the morning, or at any time throughout the day, all supplements important vitamins and fibers beneficial to our body.

4. Milk and fruit ice-blended

Ingredients:

• Sugar-free milk
• Sweetened condensed milk or sweetened condensed creamer for sweetening
• Fruits (banana, dragon fruit, avocado, sapodilla, etc)
• Well-grounded ice

Recipe:

• Step 1: cut fruits into slices (maximum 8cm) and put into pitcher
• Step 2: add sweetened condensed milk or sweetened condensed creamer to sweeten

  An amount of 20ml should be enough for a serving of 500ml ice-blended. This ratio allows a clear milky aroma while having a safe sugar level.

• Step 3: pour milk into pitcher for creamy flavor

  An amount of 70ml should be enough for a serving of 500ml ice-blended to add flavor and supplement nutrients.

• Step 4: add well-grounded ice, and blend

  Avoid using too much ice which can cause the ice-blended to be too cold and taste bland. To increase the content of the dish, you can add more milk to ensure good taste while increasing nutrition.

Add variations in this recipe according to your preferences.

Tips:

As this is quite a basic and less in amount breakfast dish compared to normal others, you are advised to increase the milk used to add more nutrients to your body and ensure fullness.

Organic whole milk is highly recommended for richness in healthy, natural fat content, and the full-creamy unique taste.

 

5. Milk ice-cream with granola

Ingredients:

• Flour: 15g
• Margarine: 200g
• Sugar-free milk: 170ml
• Sweetened condensed milk or sweetened condensed creamer for sweetening: 60ml
• Vanilla: 1 teaspoon
• Eggs: 2 egg yolks

These ingredients and the according amount are used for 650g of milk ice-cream.

Recipe:

• Step 1: toss egg yolks with sweetened condensed milk or sweetened condensed creamer and use egg beater/beating tool to mix up
• Step 2: add flour and toss up, and pour milk onto all the surface of the mixture. Cook the mixture with moderate heat until it becomes thick.
• Step 3: place the mixture in cooling compartment of the fridge in 30 mins
• Step 4: add margarine and mix up in 2 mins by the average power level of egg beater. Slowly add granola (cereal) while egg beater is still operating. When adding the last amount of granola, increase the power to highest level and mix for 5 more mins and your dish is ready to go!

 

References:

• (1) | Ashley Sobel. (2019). What Is Fortified Cereal, and Is It Healthy?

  https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/fortified-cereal

• (2) | Taylor Jones. (2021). 5 Myths About the Best Time to Eat Fruit (and the Truth):

  https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/best-time-eat-fruit

• Lê Thị Thanh Long. (2015). Thực phẩm chức năng và dinh dưỡng dược:

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