Bread upma recipe
Bread upma recipe - Easy breakfast, after school snack or even lunch box idea for your kids with bread as main ingredient and other easily available ingredients.
Servings: 2
Ingredients
- 4 Bread slice
- 1 Onion
- 1 Tomato
- 2 Green Chilli
- ¾ tsp Sambar powder
- ⅛ tsp Turmeric powder
- ½ tsp Ginger garlic paste optional
- 1 tsp Ghee
- 1 Curry Leaves sprig
- Coriander leaves To garnish
- Salt as needed
To temper
- Oil - 1 tbsp
- Mustard - ¾ tsp
- Urad dal - 1 tsp
- Chana dal - 1 tsp
- Cashew nuts optional - 4
Instructions
- Cut the bread slices into bite size squares. Slice the onion, slit green chillies and chop tomato.
- Heat a pan with oil and temper with the items given under the ‘To Temper’ table (I omitted cashews).
- Fry onions till transparent and add the ginger garlic paste and fry for 30 secs.
- Add tomatoes, salt and fry till tomatoes turn soft.
- Sprinkle turmeric and sambar powder and stir well. Sprinkle some water.
- Add the bread pieces and mix/toss well.
- Add ghee, keep in low flame and cook for two minutes to see golden brown spots here and there in the bread pieces.
Notes
- Add a tsp of garam masala/ kitchen king masala/ biryani masala/ pav bhaji masala for extra punch and flavour to this recipe.
- You can omit tomatoes and add tomato sauce/ketchup.
- Cashew, ghee are optional to enhance the taste.
- You can wheat bread (or multigrain/whole meal bread)instead of white bread.
- Sprinkle a tsp of lemon juice at the end if you want an extra zing.