Easy Healthy Brunch Recipes | Our health story

Chocolate oat and fruit juice is our usual breakfast. So light that it makes you hungry before noon. That is why we need to have brunch recipes instead of lunch.

This is our health story and the reason why we started cooking healthy recipes. We both had TEN YEARS OF high cholesterol.

Since 2011 it went up and never went down. Every year our blood test result shows our cholesterol on  the high side. It never goes below the recommended levels.

After a decade of inconsistent effort, this day we made big plans to change our diet. Starting with removing all snack foods. No more meats. No more shrimp. No more pastries. No more cakes and increasing our morning exercise

Our breakfast is usually just fruit juice drink made from blended mixed creamy banana, ripe papaya and a juicy watermelon. We drink up the pulp too. Lots of fiber and it is a waste to sieve them out.

Another one of our favorite low cholesterol morning drink is a cup of chocolate oats. Oats has never been my favorite. 

INGREDIENT
2 tbsp oats
1 tbsp honey (adjust to your taste)
150ml Hot water
1 tbsp cocoa powder

When I was a child, my mother likes to make porridge oats for me. It is always gets me into a gagging mode when I try to swallow them. Sadly this negative feeling towards oats continued into my adulthood.

But my high cholesterol got me to rethink about my negativity towards oats. That was when I started to think why not add my favorite food chocolate to the mixture.

This smooth and silky oat chocolate drink will guarantee to win the hearts of those who hate oats. Its like drinking chocolate fuggy brownie. To cut down sugar you can use artificial sweetener. You can also use honey which will give this oat chocolate drink an even better taste. 

Now days we create more brunch recipes than lunch because our light breakfast makes us hungry before noon time

This is our chicken oyster mushroom dish.

INGREDIENT

100g chicken

100g mushrooms

1 onion

5 garlic

1 tbsp soya sauce

1 tbsp fish sauce

1 tbsp oil

1/2 tsp sugar

1 tsp cornflour

Pepper

Marinated the chicken with the sauce for 30 minutes

Fry the chicken until cooked then put aside

Next fry the onions, garlic and mushroom with a little water. Cooked until all water has evaporated then mixed in the cooked chicken. This method will maintain the brown color for the chicken which make its more appealing.

Our 2nd easy stir fry is Broccoli cherry tomato. As usual the only seasoning we used is a teaspoon of chicken stock. You can substitute it with other type of flavoring.

INGREDIENT

Brocolli

Cherry Tomatoes

1 tsp chicken stock

Water

This is a simple and fast vegetable dish to prepare. 

This the start of our new low cholesterol diet and many more healthy lunch recipes to come. Watch the full video of this story.