Masala French Toast| Spicy French Toast| Masala Bread

Masala French Toast is a twist to the normal french toast. French toast is a sweet version but this is an entirely different variant and is the spicy Indian version on the bread toast. This is quite a quick fix and easy to make, tasty and a flavourful breakfast or brunch. Could be prepared within seconds for any gate crashing guest or could be prepared as an after-school snack.

Tasty filling snack or breakfast prepared without much effort. It does not require any skill to prepare this yummy toast. You could add some grated veggies or cheese to make it more healthier way.

French toast| Eggy Bread i have already shared the recipe in my blog. And another variation of that is Banana French Toast with cinnamon flavour.

INGREDIENTS:
Bread slices- 6-8 slices
Eggs- 4
Milk- 1/2 cup
Turmeric powder- 1/4 teaspoon
Ginger garlic paste- 1/2 teaspoon
Pepper powder- 1/4 teaspoon
Coriander leaves, finely chopped- 3 tablespoons
Green chillies, finely chopped-1-2
Salt- to taste

PROCEDURE:

• Remove the brown edges of the bread  and cut it into triangular shapes; set aside.
• In a deep wide bowl break the eggs and add the milk, turmeric powder, ginger garlic paste, pepper powder, coriander leaves, green chillies and salt.
• Beat well with a whisk or a spoon.
• Heat the flat pan or griddle and grease the pan with oil.
• Take the bread slices and dip one by one inside the egg batter and keep on top of the hot pan.
• Cook the toast on medium flame.
• Now drizzle little oil if necessary and cook till the bread cook till golden colour on the bottom side.
• Now flip it and cook the other side till golden.
• Remove from the pan and serve hot.
• You could add some chopped onion, capsicum also on the egg batter.
• Once cook once side flip it and add some cheese if you wish.
• Serve with green chutney or ketchup.

Note: 

• You could skip eggs and use all purpose flour if you are a vegetarian.
• You could use some red chilli powder instead of green chillies.
• You could use cumin seeds or powder for extra flavour.

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Lemon Bread Upma Recipe

Lemon Bread Upma| Potato Bread Upma| Lemon Bread stirfry recipe is a quick fix breakfast or snack recipe. It is an absolutely tasty way to finish off the leftover bread slices. I had shared yesterday another bread upma recipe with veggies. This is another take on the Vegetable Bread Upma  recipe which vanished with in minutes of preparation at our home. So I had tried another variation like lemon rice instantly and that was real yummy and liked by all. Do try my recipe and let me know the outcome; share your views about the taste.

Preparation Time: 5 minutes
Cooking Time: 15 minutes
Cuisine: South Indian
Serves:2

INGREDIENTS:
Bread slices(white/brown)-5 slices I used sandwich bread
Oil- 3 teaspoons
Mustard seeds- 1/2 teaspoon
Jeera/ Cumin seeds- 1/2 teaspoon
Peanuts/ Ground nut- 2 tablespoons
Dry red chillies-2(optional)
Curry leaves- 2 strands
Onion, chopped- 1/2
Green chillies- 2
Ginger, finely chopped-1/2 inch
Potato, finely chopped-1
Salt- to taste
Turmeric powder- 1/2 teaspoon
Lemon- 1 and 1/2 large (or) 2 small

PROCEDURE:

• Chop the onion, green chillies and ginger. Finely chop the potatoes into small pieces or cubes which makes them cook fast. Align the bread over and over the other, cutting them in a cris-cross manner to get small sized bread pieces.
• Heat oil in a pan and splutter mustard seeds and jeera. Add the peanuts and dry red chillies allow to lightly brown them.

• Now add the onion, green chillies, ginger and curry leaves. Cook till the onion turns translucent.
• Add the finely chopped potato and saute in that oil with some salt; cook in slow flame till the potatoes get cooked.
• Now add the turmeric powder and cook for fifteen seconds till the raw flavour leaves.

• Now add the bread pieces and mix well and cook till the bread pieces heated up and becomes soft.

• Sprinkle little water if required while cooking.
• Finally squeeze the lemon juice on top of bread and immediately switch off the gas and mix well to combine. 

• Notes: Sprinkle little water if required if the mixture is about to burn. Do not pour water and cook like normal upma.
• Donot cook once you add the lemon juice otherwise the whole mixture turns bitter.

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Vegetable Bread Upma| Breakfast Recipes

Bread Upma| Bread Stirfry is an easy and quick to make breakfast or snack made with any white or brown leftover bread. This is quick to make and an easy way to finish off the leftover bread in a tasty way. This time I had some bread slices that were about to expire so I decided to make this upma. My kid loved this upma. Even me started loving this spongy soft bread upma.

You could make this recipe with a few bread pieces and consume as a snack. You can prepare this upma simply with onion, ginger and green chillies like normal upma. I have added some veggies to make it colourful and also healthy.

Preparation Time: 5 minutes
Cooking Time: 10 minutes
Cuisine: South Indian
Serves:2

INGREDIENTS:
Bread slices(white/ brown)- 5 (I used sandwich bread)
Oil- 2 teaspoons
Mustard seeds- 1/2 teaspoon
Jeera/ cumin seeds- 1/2 teaspoon
Curry leaves- 2 strands
Onion, chopped- 1/2 large
Ginger, finely chopped- 1/2 inch
Green chillies-2
Tomato-1/2
Vegetables of choice, finely chopped(carrot-1 small, beans-6, capsicum- 1/4 i used)
Salt- to taste
Turmeric powder- 1/4 teaspoon
Coriander leaves- 2 tablespoons

PROCEDURE:

• Chop the onion, ginger, green chillies, carrot, beans and capsicum. Align the bread one over the other and cut them crisscross 4-5 times to get small sized bread pieces like croutons.

• Heat oil in a pan and splutter the mustard seeds, jeera and curry leaves. Once they crackle add the onion, ginger and green chillies. Once the onion turn translucent add the finely chopped tomato and vegetables with some salt.

• Cook the vegetables in the oil if required sprinkle little water to cook the veggies.
• Once the vegetables get cooked add the turmeric powder and cook for thirty seconds to relieve the raw flavour.
• Now add the bread pieces and mix well; cook for a minute or two till the bread pieces gets the heat, becomes soft and the colour of the bread changes. 

• Sprinkle some chopped coriander leaves and switch off the gas.

• Notes:Use vegetables of your choice to make this upma. You could use cauliflower, sweetcorn, potatoes, cabbage, broccoli too.
• Add  red chilli powder if you like to prepare the dish more spicy.
• Sprinkle little water if required if the mixture is about to burn. Do not pour water and cook like normal upma.

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Nutella Banana Sandwich

An easy to make tiffin or snack sandwich for kids. Easy to make without any prior planning in minutes. Kids would love to have this; even adults too would find this sandwich a toothsome pick. You could also replace nutella with peanut butter.
I have posted earlier the making of Nutella and peanut butter at home. You could check the links for the recipes. I have also posted Nutella Banana Dosa recipe earlier using this same combo. You could make grilled sandwich for crunchy outside and melting gooey inside.

Preparation Time: 2 minutes
Makes: 2 sandwiches

INGREDIENTS:
Banana-1
Nutella/ peanut butter/ Chocolate spread- 4 teaspoons
Bread slices(whole wheat / white bread)-4

PROCEDURE:

• Apply nutella one side of four bread slices. 
• Cut the banana into roundels and arrange on top of nutella applied side of the two bread slices.
• Cover it with another nutella applied bread.

• You could grill it too for few seconds if you wish to have crunchy outside with gooey melting inside.
• Cut diagonally and serve.

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Bread Gulab Jamun

I love like these super easy recipes and  that too with leftover bread slices. The best way to clear out the leftover bread. No need for Gulab Jamun mixes any more. When ever u have left over bread, you can give a delicious make over to them.

My son and me finished almost all jamuns and had even not allowed them time to soak in sugar syrup. My kid was asking for more and more. Same thing will happen when u prepare them at your home for sure. You could make this with any left over bread you have it in fridge.

Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 15 minutes
Cuisine: North Indian
Makes: 10 large or 15 medium sized Jamuns

INGREDIENTS:
Bread slices- 8
Milk- 1/2 cup
Milk powder- 2 tablespoons
Baking Soda- 1/4 teaspoon (optional)
Oil- 1 cup

For Syrup:
Sugar- 1 cup
Water- 1/2 cup
Cardamom pods- 3 pods
Rose water/ essence- 1/2 teaspoon (optional)

PROCEDURE:

• In a pan add the sugar with water and make the sugar syrup by constant stirring till the sugar get dissolved well forming sticky consistency just before the single thread stage.(pisukku padam- You can check by keeping the syrup in between thumb and index finger)

• Take the bread slices and trim the brown edges.
• Take the milk in a broad bowl and dip the bread slices one by one and squeeze well the wet slices to remove the moisture from it.

• Add the squeezed bread slices in a blender jar and add the milk powder with it and grind as a paste to get a uniform mixture.
• The mixture will be slightly sticky but if you roll them on your palm it should not stick to your palm.
• In case if it sticks tear a bread slice into small pieces and add without dipping into milk then pulse again to grind well.

• Take a small gooseberry sized mixture and roll as small smooth surfaced ball without any cracks on surface.
• While rolling on your palm roll smoothly do not give pressure else your jamuns turns hard.
• Like wise make 10 big sized or 15 medium sized jamuns.
• Heat oil in a pan on medium flame till hot. Reduce the flame to low and start frying the jamuns.

• Do not keep the flame to medium or high, because the outside only gets cooked and the inside stays uncooked. Infact at times the surface of jamuns would get burnt at high flame.
• Heat the sugar syrup and put off the gas immediately transfer the warm jamuns into the sugar syrup for soaking around 4-5 hours.

• Note: 
• Fry the bread balls in low flame or medium low flame never fry them in medium high or high flame.
• Add 1/4 teaspoons of baking soda if you want to get soft Jamuns. If you add more the jamun balls starts to disintegrate while frying.
• Adding milk powder in this recipe is optional but squeeze well the bread slice dipped in milk. 
• Health watchers can avoid  milk powder or you could replace it with fat free milk powder too.
• Adding rose water is also optional as it can also be avoided.

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Stuffed Bread Bajji/ Potato Stuffed Bread Fritters/ Potato Stuffed Bread Pakora

       Bread Bajji is always my favorite snack. I was knowing only simple bread bajji before marriage and years back once we happened to buy bread bajji from a shop and they stuffed potato inside and we liked it a lot.  The Bajji was so filling and yummy. Bajji was soft on inside and so crispy on outside.

       If i have leftover bread inside fridge i used to make simple bread bajji frequently for evening snack. Tasting stuffed bread bajji made me to try that and it came out really well and tasty. After having this bajji you wont feel hungry any more. A perfect hunger snack. Easy to make snack in minutes. Perfect with a cup of tea in the evening. School going kids love to taste this treat after returning from school with hunger. Left over bread can be utilized in this manner to make this bajjis. This is a must try dish for potato lovers.

INGREDIENTS:
Bread slices- 4- 6
Oil- 2 cups (to fry)

For stuffing:
Jeera- 1/4 teaspoon
Onion, chopped- 1/2
Green chilli, chopped-1
Ginger garlic paste/ chopped-1 teaspoon
Turmeric powder- 1/4 teaspoon(optional)
Chilli powder- 1/2 teaspoon
Garam masala powder- big pinch
Potato, mashed-1(1 cup)
Salt- to taste
Coriander leaves, chopped- 1 teaspoon

For the batter:
Gram Flour/ Kadalai maavu- 1 cup
Rice Flour- 1/2 cup
Corn Flour- 1 tablespoon (optional)
Asafetida- 1/4 teaspoon
Chilli powder- 1 teaspoon
Baking soda/ Soda podi- pinch
Oil- 1 to 2 teaspoon
Salt -to taste

PROCEDURE:

• First prepare the stuffing for the bajji by boiling the potatoes. Pressure cook the potato for 3 whistles on medium flame.
• Once the steam releases peel the potatoes and mash them with potato masher or with hand.
• Heat oil in a pan and jeera; then add the chopped onion and green chilli for about thirty seconds. Cook till soft then add the ginger garlic paste and cook till the raw smell leaves for thirty seconds.

• Add turmeric, chilli powder and garam masala powder and saute for fifteen seconds.
• Add the mashed potato and salt; mix well till uniformly combined.

• Add some coriander leaves and switch off the gas.
• Allow the mixture to cool.
• Take a tablespoon of stuffing and spread over the bread slices. Add more filling if required. 

• Flatten the filling well using a palatte knife or backside of the spoon.
• Keep another bread slice to cover the stuffing. Press with your hands to stick both slices and the stuffing together.(Otherwise while dipping inside the batter the stuffing may fall); 
• Cut the sandwiched bread slices diagonally to get two sandwich from one sandwich. If you are using sandwich bread (bigger size)give one more diagonal cut to get 4 sandwich from one sandwich; set aside.
• In a bowl add gram flour, rice flour, corn flour, Asafetida, chilli powder, baking soda, oil and salt; dry mix with hand or using a spoon.

• Add water and mix well till you get the bajji batter consistency (If you drop the batter using a spoon it has to fall)
• Heat oil in a pan till smoking hot and reduce the flame.
• Dip the sandwiched bread slices with stuffing inside the batter.

• Drop the slices inside the hot oil and fry them on both sides till crispy.
• Drain from oil and keep on top of kitchen towl.
• Serve hot with tomato ketchup or spicy chutneys.

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Avocado Egg Sandwich

       There are many versions of Egg Sandwiches available. All versions are so tasty and liked by all age groups. But I always give importance to the one which is so healthy. This sandwich is also so tasty and filling. Healthy by the addition of Avocadaos. A simple and an easy to prepare sandwich. Perfect healthy Breakfast. Can be sent for kids lunch box, suits travel and also picnics.

       Checkout my other Egg sandwiches too. Egg Salad Sandwich, Scrambled Egg Sandwich (with veggies), Beansprouts Egg Sandwich, Boiled Egg Sandwich.

INGREDIENTS:

Bread slices- 10
Eggs, Hard boiled-3
Avocado, scooped-1
Mayonnaise- 1 tablespoon
Thick yogurt/ Sour cream- 1 tablespoon
Garlic, minced/ crushed- 1/2 teaspoon
Pickled cucumber/ Gherkins, chopped- 2 teaspoons
Jalapenos, chopped- 1 teaspoon
Salt- pinch
Pepper powder- big pinch
Lettuce leaves, cut into two-2

PROCEDURE:

• Hard boil the eggs for about 5-8 minutes. Allow to cool, peel them and roughly chop them.
• Scoop out the avocado using a spoon and add in a bowl and mash it using a backside of the fork. Add roughly chopped the eggs and and add mayonnaise, yogurt/ sour cream, minced garlic and mash roughly using backside of the fork. But make sure that you do not mash them too fine, the texture should be a bit chunky.

• Then add chopped cucumber/ gherkins, chopped jalapeno with the egg mixture and mix well.
• Season with salt and pepper and mix well.

• Take a bread slice and keep a lettuce leaf; add a tablespoon of filling and close with another slice of a bread.

       You might also like Egg Salad Sandwich, Scrambled Egg Sandwich(with veggies), Beansprouts Egg Sandwich, Boiled Egg Sandwich.

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