Healthy Quick Recipes to Kick Start Your Day

The phrase 'breakfast is the most important meal of the day' is repeated and heard so often that it rings dull to our ears by now. The truth is, what makes you 'not-a-morning-person' could be the fact that you don't have the energy to get out of bed jubilantly every day. Starting your daily routine with a good breakfast, a multivitamin, and a hearty breakfast could change all that. One way is learn some healthy quick recipes to kick start your day.  

Who doesn't love the smell of pancakes in the morning? Waking up is hard to do, but it will be easier if you can look forward to a delicious meal which won't take long to make. There are plenty of healthy, quick, recipes out there but Morning Glory Pumpkin Pancakes is one that tastes like it came from a trendy bistro when you can easily whip it up at home in no time.  The trick is to prepare the pumpkin puree, mix it into the pancake batter and just refrigerate. In the morning, all you'll have to do is put a griddle on the stove and enjoy the first of your healthy quick recipes. 

Recipe: Morning Glory Pumpkin Pancakes  

Required Ingredients:  

• 2 1/2 Cup Aunt Jemima Original Pancake Mix

• 3 tablespoons brown sugar

• 2 1/2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice

• 1 teaspoon cinnamon

• ½ teaspoon ginger

• ½ teaspoon salt

• 1 egg

• 1 3/4 cup milk

• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil

• 2 tablespoons vinegar

• 1 cup pumpkin puree 

To make easy pumpkin puree, use sweet pumpkins such as New England or Baby Pam, nor the large ones in the supermarkets. Cut the pumpkins in half and then scoop out the insides. Then place them face down on a baking sheet at 425 degrees for about an hour. After the pumpkins cool, the skins easily come off. Then mash with a potato masher.  

Mix together the liquid ingredients- milk, eggs, oil, vinegar, and pumpkin, which is actually creamier than liquid but you get the idea. Combine the dry ingredients now- pancake mix, sugar, pumpkin pie spice, baking powder, baking soda, ginger, salt, and cinnamon. Stir all of these together just enough to combine. Stirring to roughly will case the fibers in the flour portion of the pancake mixture to fall apart and leave you with runny pancakes.  

Heat a lightly oiled frying pan over medium heat. Pour about half a cup of batter onto the pan for each pancake. Brown on both sides and serve hot with butter and real pancake syrup. 

Health Benefits of Morning Glory Pumpkin Pancakes

Pumpkin

The pumpkin is one of the most nutrient rich fruits there is. It is rich in alpha- carotene, beta-carotene, fiber, Vitamins C and E, potassium, magnesium and pantothenic acid.  Half a cup of pumpkin contains 5 grams of fiber, making it a great addition to many healthy, quick recipes for the fall holiday season.  

Ginger

Ginger root is a very potent medicinal plant. Historically is has been used to treat various ailments and is still used to ease muscle spasms, menstrual cramps, and digestive pains. It acts and an antihistamine, antiviral, antitoxic, and antifungal agent. It is used in the prevention of the common cold and is popularly used to make ginger tea for that purpose, making it a great addiction to any healthy, quick recipe. 

Cinnamon

Cinnamon contains antioxidants and helps the body burn fat by kick starting your metabolism. What could be better than food that burns fat for you? Cinnamon powder is not only great in healthy quick recipes for that reason, but also because the smell of cinnamon wafting through the kitchen and into your home will make it smell like the holidays have arrived!

Healthy quick recipes are not just health-wise delicious, but taste absolutely amazing!