Bread Upma | Upma Recipes

When we met my friend last month in a get-together, he asked if my blog is focused on women or people who are experts in cooking. I said "No, it is for everyone". He then suggested me to post some recipes which are easy so that bachelors or newbies can try. So I decided to tag/label my easy-to-cook recipes as "Quickies/Bachelor(ette) cooking" per his request and here it goes.
Bread upma is my

Chicken, Spinach and Artichoke Rice

Today I got some fresh baby spinach from fresh food market. I usually wilt the spinach down cool it and freeze it after putting it in a freezer bad. This is how I store spinach and use it later if I am not going to use it the same day, else it will stay in my fridge unused and get spoiled.

I had leftover rice from last night and wanted to use that up instead of cooking rice today and make another batch of leftovers. So I got a new idea to make a new recipe out of the leftovers. I remembered that I had put some of the Oven Fried Chicken in my freezer which I made the day before yesterday. So why not come up with new recipe??

Anush loved this rice because it was not spicy and it had chicken in it. :-)

Ingredients:

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1 can Artichoke hearts drained and chopped  lightly

1 breast piece of the Oven Fried Cicken (you can click the link to see the recipe) chopped

1 bag of spinach (chopped coarsely)

Salt and Pepper to taste

1/4 cup grated Parmesan Cheese

1 small Onion chopped

1 cup Cooked Rice (I used Basmati Rice or you can cook rice with 1 cup of rice and 1 1/2 cups water)

1/4 tsp Garlic powder or 1 pod freshly chopped garlic

1 tbsp Butter

1 tsp Olive oil

Method:

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1. In a pan add olive oil and butter, add the garlic powder and onions and saute it until the onions turn transparent.

2. Add the spinach and artichokes, salt and pepper and cook for another minute.

3. Add the rice and chicken and mix well.

4. Off the flame and add the cheese and mix again and serve hot or warm.

Note: you can add scrambled egg or any other choice of meat to eat and also can top it with more cheese or crushed bacon.

Yellu Podi Saadam/Sesame Rice - Day 6 Blogging Marathon

It has been a hectic day. My Son isn't well from yesterday night. Though everything was ready in the morning, i couldnt find time to sit and do the post. Atlast found some time to finish it before the day ends. Sesame Rice is another flavourful rice, very quick to make.

Ingredients
1 cup Rice,Cooked
2 tbsp White Sesame Seeds
3 -4 nos Red Chillies
1 tsp Urad Dal/Black Gram Dal
3-4nos Cashews
Salt to taste


Seasoning
2 tbsp Gingely Oil/Ghee
1/2 tsp Mustard Seeds
1/4 tsp broken urad dal/Black Gram dal
Hing a pinch
Curry leaves a few

Sorry for a Bad Picture!!!!!!

Method

Heat a pna ad dry roast the seeds in a low flame till light brown in colour.  Heat half a tsp of oil and fry red chillies with black gram dal and Cashews.  Cool the ingredients and Powder them.  Heat rest of the Oil/Ghee Separately and splutter mustard seeds and fry curry leaves and hing. Add Broken urad dal and fry them until brown.  Add Cooked Rice with Salt and the grounded powder. Mix Well. Garnish with any Roasted Nuts or just coriander leaves.  

Check out the bloggers doing the Blogging Marathon, along with me.. 
Group 1 
30 Minutes Meals: Gayathri Anand
Baked Goods: Monika
For On Going Events: Gayathri Kumar, Usha
Kids Friendly: PJ, Savitha, Smitha, Veena Aravind, Srivalli
Rice Varieties: Champa, Divya, Padma 


Group 2
30 Minutes Meals:Priya Mahadavan, Pavani,
Seven Days of Salad: lla, Divya Vikram,
For Ongoing 7 Events: Priya Suresh, Suma Gandlur, Harini,
Kids Friendly: Vatsala, Jay, Kamalika
Seven Days of Rice: Veena Krishnakumar, Padma Rekha and myself