High Protein Breakfast Recipes (Vegetarian)

Make these high-protein breakfasts for a week and get ready to lose some extra belly fat and weight.

14 High Protein Breakfasts

Breakfast is an essential meal of the day. It helps keep the energy level high. One should never skip breakfast (other than intermittent fasting).

Even if you are on a weight loss diet, you should not skip breakfast. This is the most required food by our body. As we don't eat the whole night, i.e., for more than 8 - 12 hours, we don't eat anything. This is equivalent to fasting.

So, breakfast breaks the fast and provides our body with the required nutrition for the daily function of the system, i.e., body and mind.

Vegetarian Sources of Protein

While we should not skip our first meal of the day, we must include healthy food in our breakfast. Again, if you want to lose some pounds and trim your belly line, you must have protein-rich food in your diet.

Vegetarian protein sources are limited to dairy products, lentils, legumes, and beans. So, you must plan your diet to include foods from this category.

Some high protein foods you must include in your diet: dal or lentils, sprouts, chickpeas (white and black), milk, curd, paneer, tofu, soya bean, soya chunks, nuts, whole grains like oats, quinoa, daliya or cracked wheat, peanut butter, mushrooms, green beans, etc.

Role of Protein In Weight Loss

If you are looking for how protein helps in weight loss, below are a few points to explain:

• It increases metabolism and speeds up the effective loss of calories. Adequate protein helps burn more fat.

• The more high-protein food you eat in breakfast, the less belly fat you will have. Because it acts directly on belly fat and helps reduce it.

• When on a weight-loss diet, we should eat more protein and fiber. Protein primarily helps build muscles, and the body loses muscle and fat during weight loss.

• A lack of protein in the diet results in quick muscle loss. So, eating protein-rich food for a weight loss diet will stop muscle mass loss by burning fat and calories.

• At the same time, it gives a feeling of satiety, keeping you full for longer. Thus, it reduces appetite and stops the craving to overeat unnecessarily.

Also, read my Oatmeal Diet Plan For Weight Loss here.

High-protein vegetarian breakfast recipes:-

1. Palak Moong Dal Chilla / Lentil Crepes with spinach

2. Daliya Khichdi / Cracked wheat porridge

3. Steamed Oats Idli (with veggies)

4. Oats Upma (with veggies)

5. Rava Upma (with veggies)

7. Ragi Idli (with veggies)

8. Ragi Crepes / Adai (with veggies)

9. Protein-Rich Chickpea Salad

10. Moong Dal Idli (with veggies)

11. Paneer Bhurji / Scrambled Paneer

Get here 3 Bonus Recipes that will help you in your weight loss journey:

1. Fig Banana Smoothie

2. Vegetable Raita

3. Oats Coriander Buttermilk

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