Bread Upma

Bread upma is a breakfast or snack item made out of bread. It can be prepared with common ingredients found in most Indian kitchens. It’s an easy dish to prepare and cook. This also happens to be one of my most favourite snack item.

Bread upma, ready to eat.

 
Recipe

Preparation time: 10 minutes

Cooking time: 10-15 minutes.

Ingredients:

1.    6 slices of regular bread, crumbled. If bread is not soft, sprinkle some water into the bread into and mix. If the bread is too hard, you can dip the slices in water and take it out, squeeze out the water. Then crumble it and dry it under the fan for 10-15 minutes.

2.    Finely chopped onions: 1/2 cup

3.    Chopped tomatoes: 1 cup

4.    Finely chopped green chillies: 1-3 tsp (as per tolerance)

5.    Turmeric (Haldi) powder: 1 tsp

6.    Coriander (Dhania) powder: 2 tsp

7.    Mustard seeds: 1/2 tsp

8.    Finely chopped fresh coriander leaves (for garnishing

9.    Vegetable oil: 2 tbsp

Preparation: 

1.    Heat the oil in a kadai/deep pan, on medium flame.

2.    When the oil is hot, add the mustard seeds and let it splutter a little.

3.    Add the chopped onions and fry till translucent.

4.    Then add the chopped tomatos and the salt. Cook the onion-tomato mix till the tomatoes melt.

5.    Add the turmeric powder and coriander powder and cook on low flame, while stirring, till it becomes thick gravy.

6.    Add the chopped chillies and cook for another minute.

7.    Add the bread crumbs and mix well on high flame for about one minute.

8.    Add chopped coriander leaves and turn off the flame. Keep it covered for two minutes and then serve.

Pictorial recipe for Bread Upma

Do try out this dish and let us know your feedback and results. Happy eating!