Just to share with you………..
During my childhood days I am very scared of the name “UPMA”. I hate upma’s like anything. When I started cooking I love UPMA’s because it is the simplest and quickest one to make. I know only wheat upma called “gouthuma rava” in tamil ,white upma and Idli upma ( made with left over idli’s). After coming to US I learnt this bread upma. My daughter loves bread and chease but if I buy one packet after finishing 4-5 slices than expiry date comes and I used to throw the bread packet. To solve this problem when I browsed I came to know about Bread Upma. Now I am buying wheat bread packets for making healthy wheat bread upma for breakfast.
Ingredients 1. Bread slices - 5 2. Oil - 2 tsp 3. Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp 4. Channa dal - 1/2 tsp 5. Urad dal - 1/2 tsp 6. Roasted peanut - hand full (optional) 7. curry and corriander leaves 8. onion - 1 small size 9. green chillies - 3
Preparation
1. In kadai heat oil and splutter mustard seeds and curry leaves.
2. Add channa dal,urad dal and peanut one by one and roast it.
3. Add chopped onions and slitted green chillies.
4. Add the bread pieces and roast it well.
5. Before turning of the stove just garnish with corriander leaves
Tips
I have shown you the simplest version.you can make it rich with many ways.
1. You can add ginder garlic past little and veggies like carrot,peas along with onion.
2. You can add roasted cashewnuts for extra crunchness.
3. You can add few lemon drops if you like bit of sour taste.
Just to share with you……..
Cheese sandwich is simple and easy to make in a minute.
For kids
Take two bread slices toast it with ghee (your wish) buy form grocey store the square shaped slices cheese coming as a pack (eg singles). This cheese is available in almost all the grocery shops. Keep the cheese slice inbetween the two toasted bread slices. Cut diagonally and give your kids. They find it easy to hold and eat nicely.
My kid ,she even don’t want to toast the bread. She is 3 year old . She used to make her own sandwich and eat it. She will takeout cheese slice from refrigerator keep the slice inbetween bread slices and she will eat it.
You can aslo make variation in this. Buy hot dog buns. slice the butter stick ask your kid to open the hotdog bun (which has cut to open) and ask him/her to arrange the sliced butter sticks in straight line and him/her to close the bun and eat it. Since they are making they really enjoy this. I have seen this in my kid.
For Grownups
You can make a slight variation to what i have mentioned so that adults also like this sandwich. This is very simple sandwich which can be made in 2 mins. We need 2 mins only for toasing the bread. You can toast it using toaster or in dosa tava . This can be liked both by adults and kids.
Sandwich
Ingredients
- Breadslices -2
- Kraft cheese slice-1
- onion slices -1 ( take big onion and make a thin slice which willcome as circle)
- tomato slice-1(take big tomato and make a thin slice like circle,if tomato is small make 2 slices)
Preparation
- Toast the bread.
- Take one slice bread on the top of keep stacking cheese slice,tomato slice and then onion slice ( or in any order). Cover with another slice of bread.
- Cut in diagnal and make it into two halves.
- Simple sandwich is ready. Which is good for breakfast.
Just to share with you……
Bajji is the simplest snack we can make to have in the evenings. During winter season we really want something hot in the evening. I had so many varieties of bajji’s but for all the batter is same. Bread bajji is the onw which I used to have during my MCA. That was the first time (in hostel) where I had bread bajji. One lady used to bring in the afternoon and evening we have to rush for it. Whenever I make bread bajji’s I remember those pleasant memories. I had Chilli bajji for the first time in Kodaikannal when I was in 5th standard. National Nursery and Primary School in Madathukkulam is the school where I studied till my 5th grade.
Make Potato bajji, Onion bajji, Brinjal bajji, Cauliflower bajji, Applam bajji, Plaintain bajji/Vallakkai bajji, Bread bajji, Chilli bajji using same batter.
Ingredients for Batter
1. Besan Flour /Kadalamavu – 1 cup
2. Salt as need
3. Little appa soda if you have (sodium bicorbonate)
4. Little color powder. If you don’t have color powder add 1/4 tsp of turmeric powder because the besan which we are getting in US is not giving very good color like Indian Kadalamavu.
Preparation of batter
1. Mix all the ingredients together well by adding little water so that it will be in idli/dasa batter consistency. This batter is sued for making different bajji’s.
Tips
1. If you want more crispy then you can add a teasppon of rice flour while making batter.
2. If your batter is not fine and it has lumps just give one spin in your mixie to get smooth batter. But be careful whe you are using your mixi because only very less water is need when compared to mixing with hand.
1.Bread Bajji
1. Take bread slice. Cut diagonally and make four triangles. Dip each in batter and fry in oil.
2. Potatoes and Brinal bajji
3. Onion Bajji
Take big onion/Periyavenkayam slice into rounds and dip in batter then fry that in oil.
4. Plaintain/Valakkai Bajji
Make thin slices with the grater dip that in batter and fry in oil.
5. Appalam Bajji
Take one appalam cut it into half dip that in batter and fry that in oil.
6. Chilli bajji
Take long green chilli on the tail end side cut to split into two portion but at the head end it should be attached and the stem should be there. Dip this in batter and fry in oil.
7. Cauliflower bajji
Boil water and put the cauliflower florets,little salt and cook it. Then put that in paper napkin and take out all the water then dip each florets in bajji batter and fry well.
