Bread Upma

Prep Time: 15 min
Cooking Time: 25 min
Serves: 3

Ingredients

1. Bread loaves - 8
2. Oil - 2 tbsp
3. Peanuts - 2 tbsp
4. Grated ginger - 1 tsp
5. Minced garlic - 1 tsp
6. Green chilly (slit vertically) - 1
7. Salt - to taste

Vegetables

1. Onion (sliced) - 1/2 cup
2. Beans (chopped) - 1/4 cup
3. Cabbage (shredded) - 1/2 cup
4. Capsicum (sliced) - 1/2 cup
5. Carrot (thin strips) - 1/4 cup
6. Baby corn (thin strips) - 1/4 cup

Spice powders

1. Sambhar powder - 1 tsp
2. Red chilly powder - 1/2 tsp
3. Garam masala powder (optioanl) - 1/2 tsp

Sauces

1. Soy sauce - 2 tbsp
2. Del Monte Tomato ketchup - 1 tbsp
3. Del Monte Twango - 1 tbsp
4. Capsico red pepper sauce - 1 tsp

For garnishing

1. Spring onions (chopped) - 3 tbsp

Method

1. Cut each bread loaf in to 6 pieces.
2. Heat a kadai, toast the bread pieces in batches; set aside.
3. Meanwhile wash, chop all the vegetables and set aside.
4. Heat oil in a wok, add peanuts and stir fry for few sec.
5. Add grated ginger, minced garlic, onion, green chilly; saute for few min.
6. Add rest of the vegetables and stir fry in high flame for 3 min.
7. Cover and cook in low flame for 3 to 5 min.
8. Add the spice powders and saute again for 2 min.
9. Add the sauces and toss in high flame for 3 min.
10. Add in the toasted bread pieces; combine well.
11. Adjust salt, sweet, hot & tangy taste as required.
12. Cover & cook again for a min or two in low flame.
13. Switch off gas & serve hot garnished with chopped spring onions.

NOTE

• I have used brown bread for the recipe & hence the colour; can use any bread variety of your choice.