Saturday, March 12, 2016

Bread Upma

Bread Upma is one of the easiest snacks/breakfast items one can make. Kids love eating it. We prepare it rarely though as it is made out of maida/all purpose flour which is comparatively less nutritious.

Ingredients used:
2 tsp cooking oil
2-3 medium sized onions chopped
2 tomatoes chopped
1 tsp mustard seeds
1/2 tsp urad dal
1 sprig curry leaves
1 green chilly chopped into fine pieces
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
1/2 tsp red chilly powder
Salt to taste
2 tsp sugar
1 pound bakery bread cut into small cubes.
1/2 cup chopped coriander leaves

How to make:
Stack 4-5 slices of bread at a time. Cut with a sharp knife into medium sized cubes. Repeat the same with the entire loaf.

In a frying pan, heat oil. Let mustard seeds crackle. Add urad dal, curry leaves, green chillies, chopped onions and tomatoes and the powders. Fry well. Then add the bread pieces, salt and sugar.  Mix well. Do not cook after adding the bread. Heating it up is enough. Otherwise, they become crumpled and soggy. Garnish with coriander leaves. Serve hot

P.S: You could add spinach leaves to the same while frying onions and make it healthier.