Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Bread Upma

Bread has always been an essential ingredient on the breakfast table.There are days when you laze around and don't feel like cooking elaborate meals for your family.You seek for something fast and simple.A simple bread and butter or jam can be an easy escape.But then the same taste of bread and butter can make your taste buds cry for something different.Here is where this bread upma takes the spotlight.It's quick,simple and tasty.You can experiment by adding various veggies and make it your signature dish.So let's see the ingredient's that you'll need.

Ingredients Serves-2 people

  • 9 slices of white bread cut into cubes
  • 1 large sized chopped tomato
  • 1 medium sized chopped onion
  • Handful of green peas (optional)
  • 1/2 tsp of red chilly powder
  • 1/2 tsp of mustard seeds
  • 2 tbsp of tomato ketchup
  • handful of coriander leaves chopped
  • 1 tbsp of oil
  • salt to taste

Method
  1. Take a pan and heat up the oil.Pour in the mustard seeds and let it crackle.
  2. Add in the onions and saute it for a while till the onions gets translucent.
  3. Add in the tomatoes and mix everything well.Saute till the tomatoes gets half cooked.
  4. Once the tomatoes become slightly soft add in the green peas,chilly powder,tomato sauce and mix everything completely.At this stage you can add the green chilies,too.But i have avoided it.
  5. Add in the chopped coriander leaves and salt.
  6. Mix the bread cubes in.Gently coat the bread pieces with the dry gravy.
  7. And your bread upma is ready.Garnish it the way you like and Eat it up!:)

Tips:-
 1.The tomato ketchup that i used was already sweet.As it's homemade(recipe given on my blog).But if the one you use is not that sweet then you can add in a bit of sugar.
2.You can even add a bit of lemon juice.

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