🥜🌾 Power-Packed Maharashtrian Breakfast Recipes You’ll Love!

Here’s a curated list of 7 popular Maharashtrian breakfast recipes along with simple, home-style recipes for each—flavorful, satisfying, and perfect for your breakfast table 🌞🍛

🥇 1. Misal Pav (Spicy Sprouted Curry with Pav)

Ingredients:

• 1 cup sprouted matki (moth beans)
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 tomato, chopped
• 1 tsp ginger-garlic paste
• 1 tsp goda masala / garam masala
• 1 tsp red chili powder
• Salt, turmeric
• 2 tbsp oil, mustard seeds, curry leaves
• Farsan for topping
• Pav buns, chopped onion, lemon & coriander

Instructions:

1. Pressure cook sprouts with salt and turmeric.
2. In a pan, heat oil, add mustard, curry leaves, onions. Sauté till golden.
3. Add ginger-garlic, tomatoes, spices, and cooked sprouts. Add water to make a curry.
4. Simmer 10 mins. Serve in a bowl topped with farsan, chopped onion, coriander, lemon.
5. Toast pav with butter and serve hot!

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🥈 2. Thalipeeth (Multigrain Savory Flatbread)

Ingredients:

• 1 cup bhajani flour (or mix of jowar, bajra, rice, besan)
• 1 onion finely chopped
• 2 green chilies, coriander
• Salt, cumin, ajwain
• Warm water to knead
• Ghee or oil to cook

Instructions:

1. Mix all ingredients with water to form a soft dough.
2. Pat flat with wet hands on a greased foil/banana leaf or directly on the pan.
3. Make a hole in the center and cook on tawa with oil/ghee till crispy on both sides.

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🥉 3. Kanda Poha (Flattened Rice with Onion)

Ingredients:

• 1½ cups poha (medium-thick)
• 1 onion, finely chopped
• 2 green chilies, mustard seeds
• ¼ tsp turmeric, salt
• Lemon juice, coriander, peanuts (optional)

Instructions:

1. Rinse poha and keep aside (soft but not mushy).
2. Heat oil, splutter mustard, add chilies, onion. Sauté till soft.
3. Add turmeric, salt, poha. Mix gently.
4. Cover and steam 2–3 mins. Garnish with lemon juice, coriander, and peanuts.

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🌿 4. Sabudana Khichdi (Tapioca Stir Fry)

Ingredients:

• 1 cup sabudana (soaked overnight)
• ½ cup roasted crushed peanuts
• 1 potato chopped
• 1 green chili, cumin, salt
• Lemon juice, coriander

Instructions:

1. Drain soaked sabudana completely. Mix with peanuts and salt.
2. Heat ghee/oil, add cumin, chilies, potato. Cook till soft.
3. Add sabudana mixture. Cook on low till translucent (~5–7 mins).
4. Add lemon juice, coriander, and serve warm.

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🫓 5. Upvas Thalipeeth (Fasting Flatbread)

Ingredients:

• ½ cup rajgira or singhada flour
• 1 boiled potato mashed
• Rock salt, green chili paste, coriander
• Water as needed

Instructions:

1. Mix everything into soft dough.
2. Flatten on banana leaf or foil.
3. Roast on tawa with ghee till golden.

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🌾 6. Pithla-Bhakri (Besan Curry with Millet Roti)

Ingredients for Pithla:

• 1 cup besan (gram flour)
• 1 onion chopped
• 1 tsp mustard, garlic paste
• Curry leaves, turmeric, green chilies
• Water, salt, coriander

Instructions:

1. Heat oil, splutter mustard, garlic, onion, curry leaves.
2. Add besan with water (thin consistency), turmeric, salt.
3. Stir continuously till it thickens. Garnish with coriander.

For Bhakri:

• Use jowar or bajra flour, knead with hot water, roll, and cook on tawa.

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🍯 7. Sheera (Sooji Halwa – Sweet Treat)

Ingredients:

• ½ cup rava (semolina)
• 3 tbsp ghee
• ¼ cup jaggery or sugar
• 1.5 cups water or milk
• Cardamom, chopped nuts

Instructions:

1. Roast rava in ghee until golden.
2. Boil water/milk separately and add to rava carefully.
3. Stir, add jaggery/sugar, cardamom. Cook till ghee separates.