Weekend Carnivore

There are so many times when I need to have a breakfast quickly but I don’t want to reach for anything unhealthy. Usually, these are also the same times when I am on my own which just makes it all the more difficult to come up with something other than yet another bowl of cereal. The good news is that once you get familiar with a wide variety of fruit you can come up with a healthy vegetarian breakfast that is ready nearly as fast as that dreaded bowl of bran flakes.

When I came up with this vegetarian breakfast recipe, I was at the start of my love affair with Greek yoghurt. I have been lactose intolerant since I was an infant and so I tend to try to avoid most dairy. So, when I discovered that, for some reason, Greek yoghurt doesn’t cause my guts to churn like most dairy I went through a period of obsession with it. Which is not a bad thing at all because even the fat free variety of Greek yoghurt I tend to use is really thick and creamy. When you add that it is also really healthy than there is no reason not to make it a regular feature of your diet.

I have found that it works especially well when I want to do a fruit based breakfast and that is exactly what happened with this tropical fruit breakfast that I came up with one morning. I had a part of a mango left but not enough to do a big recipe. So, I chopped it up, threw in some banana and topped it with the Greek yoghurt. It was still missing something. So, I reached for a passion fruit and scraped the pulp out and put it on top of the yoghurt. The passion fruit worked beautifully to sweeten the Greek yoghurt without the need for additional sweetener.

So, here you have it:

Tropical Fruit Breakfast For One

tropical fruit breakfast recipe

Ingredients:
2 ounces mangoes, cut onto small chunks
2 ounces bananas, cut in half lengthwise and then chopped
1 passion fruit, pulp of
3 teaspoons low-fat Greek yogurt or low-fat plain yoghurt

Directions:
1. Put the mango and banana into a bowl.
2. Scoop the pulp out of the passion fruit and gently mix in with the mango and banana.
3. Transfer to your serving dish and top with yoghurt.

Serves 1