Bread Upma

This is a quick and easy recipe. It was one of my favourite after school snacks.I still remeber the first time my Mom made it. I was in fourth grade I think. She had come back from some event where she had learn’t to make it and there was a little leftover. I had loved it and asked her for the recipe. For the next few weeks that was the only snack I wanted.

When I am in a hurry to serve something different for breakfast this is an easy goto recipe.

Ingredients

• 10 slices bread
• 1/2 cup onion diced small
• 3 green chillies
• 1/4 tsp jeera
• 1/4 tsp rai
• 1/4 tsp urad dal
• 1 dry red chilli
• 2 tbsp oil
• 2 tbsp ghee
• 10 curry leaves
• 1/4 tsp turmeric
• salt to taste

Method

• Heat the oil and ghee together in a pan.
• Add the seasonings ( jeera, rai, urad and red chilli) to the pan.
• Next add the curry leaves
• Add the onionsand green chillies. Saute till the onions become translucent in color.
• Add the turmeric and salt. mix well
• Dip the bread slices in water, squeeze well to remove all the water and crumble into the pan.
• Mix well and cook for a few min.
• Serve hot.

Notes

• You will notice that in the photograph the dish seems to be loaded with onions. I just wanted to use up the extra I had and later realized that I was actually short of a couple of slices of bread.
• I was out of curry leaves and omitted them
• I use both whole wheat and white bread. If you use whole wheat just keep in mind that if you use a variety with honey in it the upma will have a mild sweet taste.