Bread Upma

Ingredients

• • Bread - 1 loaf
• • Onions - 4
• • Green chillies - 10
• • Fine bombay rawa - ½ cup
• • Water - 1 ¼ cups
• • Salt - 1 teaspoon
• • Turmeric powder - ½ teaspoon
• • Lemon - 1
• • Oil - 6 tablespoons

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Ingredients For Seasoning

• • Mustard seeds - ½ teaspoon
• • Black gram dal - 1 teaspoon
• • Bengal gram dal - 2 teaspoons
• • Curry leaves - 1 sprig

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Ingredients For Garnishing

• • Cashew nuts (fried) - 1 tablespoon
• • Coriander leaves (cut) - 1 tablespoon
• • Coconut (grated, fresh) - 2 tablespoons (optional)

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Method

• 1. Cut bread slices into very fine pieces.
• 2. Chop onions into small pieces and chillies lengthwise.
• 3. Heat oil in a broad frying pan. Add seasonings, chillies and then onion.
• 4. Fry till onions change its colour. Pour water with turmeric powder, lemon juice and salt.
• 5. When it starts boiling add rawa and mix for a minute or two.
• 6. Put bread pieces to that and fry in medium flame till upma becomes very hot.
• 7. Garnish with coconut, coriander leaves and cashew nuts. Serve hot.

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Note

• • If lemon juice is added at the end, bread absorbs wherever it falls and doesn't mix evenly to the upma. So always add lime juice in the beginning itself.
• • If bread is dry little more water can be sprinkled while frying.