A slice of bread can be turned into any recipe, even into an upma. When you don’t feel like having bread butter or toast, just cut the bread in cubes and toss it in a kadhai with a spice mix and make a delicious bread chiwda or upma.
Here is the recipe to make a simple yet yummy bread upma.
Ingredients:
- Bread: 10 slices cut in cubes
- Onion: 1 medium finely chopped
- Curry leaves
- Green chilies: 2
- Cumin seeds: 1 tsp
- Mustard seeds: 1 tsp
- Turmeric: 1 tsp
- Oil: 1 tbsp
- Green peas: 1 tbsp (optional)
- Tomato: 1 medium finely chopped (optional)
- Coriander: finely chopped 1 tbsp
Method:
- Heat oil in a kadhai.
- Prepare tempering with jeera, rye, curry leaves, and chilies.
- Add onion to this and fry until translucent.
- Then add green peas after this if you want to.
- Add turmeric powder and fry all this.
- Cut the bread and toss it in the kadhai.
- Cover it and leave it for at least 5 mins.
- Add chopped coriander and serve it.
Nutrition: It is advisable to have white bread only occasionally and in minimal quantities as it hardly contains any nutrients. Use of onion and spices adds nutrients like carbohydrates, Vit (B6, C, K, A) iron, etc. to the otherwise unhealthy bread.
Tip: Instead of chili powder you can also make this using green chilies and turmeric.
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