Breakfast special: Bread Upma (pudding)

This simple breakfast usually comes into picture when you have some left over bread pieces and you don't want to waste them. Very quick, very tasty. My version of Bread Upma is not very crunchy. It is slightly spongy, spicy and tangy.

Preparation and cooking time: 30 mins

Ingredients:

• Bread pieces - 5
• Tomatoes - 2 large or 3 small
• Onion - 1
• Green chilly - 1
• Chopped and crushed ginger
• Turmeric powder - 1 spoon
• Sambar powder - 1 spoon
• Salt
• Curd/ Yoghurt - 2 spoons
• Mustard seeds
• Curry leaves
• Edible oil
• Ghee/ Butter

Preparation:

• Cut the bread pieces into cubes or tear into random pieces.
• Heat a frying pan, add ghee/ butter and fry the bread crumbs. Let them turn to golden brown. Keep aside.

• Heat a cooking pan, add edible oil, mustard seeds and let them splutter.
• Add chopped onions, split green chilly, curry leaves and crushed ginger. Saute well till onions turn golden brown.

• Add chopped tomatoes and saute till they become very soft.

• Add sambar powder, turmeric powder. Mix yoghurt/ curd and salt and add it as well. Stir well for 2 mins.

• Add the bread crumbs and mix well.

• Close it with a lid and cook in low flame for 4 mins.

• Serve hot!

This is a good way to not let your bread pieces go wasted. A breakfast which would be loved by both kids and adults!