Description
Bread Upma is one of the easiest, healthy South Indian Style breakfast or snack recipes made with leftover or fresh bread, a few veggies, and spices. It tastes best when served hot. Here’s a healthy and delicious breakfast recipe in 10 minutes!
Scale
Ingredients
- 7–8 bread slices white or whole wheat)
- 2 tablespoons oil
- ½ teaspoon mustard seeds
- 1 teaspoon urad dal
- 1 teaspoon chana dal
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1 medium tomato, chopped
- 10–12 curry leaves
- 1 green chilli finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon kashmiri red chili powder
- Salt to taste
- 1 teaspoon tomato ketchup
- 3 tablespoons coriander leaves (finely chopped)
- Sev for garnishing (optional)
Instructions
To prepare bread upma
- First, cut the bread slices into cubes and keep them aside.
- Next chop the onion, tomato, green chilli and set aside.
- Now heat oil in a pan on medium flame, add mustard seeds.
- Fry it till crackles.
- Add urad-chana dal along with curry leaves.
- Let them crackle for a minute until the curry leaves turn crisp and dal turn change in color.
- Add chopped green chilli and fry it for about 10-12 seconds.
- Then add chopped onions and fry for 2 to 3 minutes until they turn translucent.
- Add kashmiri red chili powder and salt to taste.
- Mix very well and saute the mixture for another 30 seconds on low flame.
- Add tomatoes. Cook until they turn soft and mushy.
- Further, add tomato ketchup and mix the mixture well.
- Finally, add bread cubes and mix gently without breaking the bread cubes.
- Cover and let it cook for 2-3 minutes on low flame. Make sure all the bread pieces absorb the masala.
- Garnish it with some chopped coriander and sev on top while serving.
- Bread upma is ready.
Notes
- Leftover bread or fresh bread both works well in the recipe. For a healthier version, you can use whole wheat bread, multigrain bread, or ragi bread (finger millet bread).
- It is best to toast the bread before making the bread upma. You can toast them on tawa or in a toaster until golden brown and crisp. It adds crispiness to bread upma.
- Instead of oil, you can use butter or ghee, which gives a more rich flavor in this Bread Upma recipe.
- Additionally, you can also add vegetables like carrot, capsicum, peas, and beans to make it more nutritious.
- Alternatively, you can add garam masala, maggi masala, or pav bhaji masala for more flavors.
- Category: Breakfast, Side Dish, Snacks
- Cuisine: Indian, South Indian
Keywords: Indian Breakfast Recipe, South Indian Style Bread Upma Recipe, How to make Bread Upma