Bread Almond Upma

Want to eat simple and easy yet delicious breakfast in mins? This is the recipe you must try.......

I had this left over stuffing mix (used can used leftover bread) and it was little that I could not make a full recipe out of this. Today morning I was very hungry and wanted to eat something nice and hot...so came up with this wonderful recipe.

Hats off to leftovers!! ;-)

Ingredients:

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1 small Onion chopped

1 big Tomato chopped

2 Green Chilies

Salt to taste

2 cups Whole/white wheat Bread stuffing mix/ left over crushed bread

1 tbsp Lemon juice

¼ cup Cilantro chopped

¼ cup Water

1tsp Oil

Method:

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1. In a sauce pan add oil. When it is hot add onions and green chilies and fry until golden brown, Add tomatoes and salt and cover and cook for about 2 mins until the tomatoes are soft.

2. Add almonds and stir well.

3. Add the bread and sprinkle some water evenly and mix well for 30 secs.

4. Off the flame and add lime juice and mix well again.

5. Garnish it with chopped cilantro and serve when it is hot.

6. Your healthy and easy in mins bread almond upma is ready!

Red Chili Lamb Curry

Today the weather was so good. It was not so cold or very hot in the morning. So we (myself and anush) decided to go with Shoj to the place where he usually takes our waste stuff to recycle.

On our way to the recycle place, we saw farm produce veggies for sale. We parked the car to buy some of the fresh veggies and eggs.

Anush enjoyed being there because he saw cat, dog, hen, goat, cow all raised by the farm produce owner. We also got some fresh cow's milk and I prepared yogurt out of it.........we enjoyed the whole time being there.

When we returned home I smelled some nice curry from some where, probably from my neighbor’s house, so decided to make spicy lamb curry.

Ingredients:

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1 ½ lb lamb cleaned, cut into bite size pieces and washed.

2 medium red Onions sliced

1 big Tomato chopped

2 sprigs of curry leaves

2 tbsp Ginger-garlic paste

1 tsp Turmeric powder

1 tbsp Red chili powder

1 tsp Black pepper powder

8-10 dry Red chilies

1 tsp Garam masala powder

¼ cup water

Salt

Whole Garam Masala:

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1 Bay leaf

6 Cloves

3 Cardamoms

½ tsp Fennel Seeds

1 tsp Cumin Seeds

1 tsp Caraway Seeds

1 tsp Kasuri Methi

1 tbsp Oil

½ cup Cilantro chopped

Method:

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1. In pressure cooker add all the ingredients except onion, tomato, curry leaves and garam masala powder and add half the salt and cook the lamb for about 3 whistles. Let the pressure go completely.

2. In a heavy bottom pan add oil, when the oil is medium hot add whole garam masala and when the aroma comes, add curry leaves, onions and rest of the salt and fry until golden brown.

3. Now open the cooker and mix well. Now water the masala water to the pan of onions keep the mutton pieces aside.

4. cover and boil on medium high heat until the gravy gets reduced to half of it.

5. Now add the mutton pieces, tomatoes, cover and cook again until the gravy gets thick and less watery.

6. Now add garam masala powder and mix well and cook for another min.

Garnish with chopped cilantro and serve hot with chapati/roti or rice/pulav.

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