Green Peas Sweet Corn Bread Upma

We regularly buy multi cereal sliced bread that contains wheat, oat, maize, soya, channa. We have it for breakfast. For dinner I make garlic bread also. Sometimes bread slices are not fully consumed as planned. What to do with excess bread slices ? At times family members also get bored with bread slices.

You can surprise your family members with a delicious Green Peas Sweet Corn Bread Upma. Even children will like it in their lunch boxes. It is easy and simple to prepare.

Serves: 4

Cooking time: 30 minutes approximately

Ingredients

• Multi grain or any type of bread – 8 slices
• American sweet corn – ½ cup
• Frozen green peas – ½ cup
• Capsicum chopped – 1 no
• Carrot chopped – 1 no
• Tomato chopped – 1 no
• Green chilli chopped – 1 no
• Onion chopped – 1 no
• Coriander chopped – few
• Curry leaves chopped – few
• Ginger chopped – 1 table spoon
• Red chilli powder – ½ tea spoon
• Lemon juice – ½ tea spoon
• Salt as for taste
• For seasoning
  • Mustard – ½ tea spoon
  • Urad dal – ½ tea spoon
  • Bengal gram – 1 table spoon
  • Peanut – handful
  • Asafetida powder – pinch
  • Oil – 4 tea spoon

Method

• Boil green peas and corn with little salt; crumble the bread nicely.
• Heat a pan with oil and do the seasoning.

• Add chopped curry leaves, coriander leaves, ginger, green chilli, onion and fry for few minutes till onion is transparent.

• Now add chopped carrot, capsicum, salt and fry till both are just done.

• Add tomato and fry for few minutes till it is soft; now add boiled peas, corn and mix.

• Add red chilli powder, mix well and fry for few seconds; add crumbled bread and fry for few seconds.

• Switch of gas, add lemon juice and mix well.

• Serve hot. You may not need any chutney or sauce.

Tips

• Do not try with stale (where date of expiry is over) bread.