Bread Upma

Ingredients :

1. Bread slices - 4
2. Onion - 1
3. Tomato - 1
4. Urad dal - 1 tsp
5. Chana dal - 1 tsp
6. Ginger - finely chopped 1 inch
7. Green chilly -2
8. Red chilly powder - 1/2 tsp
9. Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
10. Curry leaves
11. Coriander leaves
12. Sambar powder - 1/2 tsp
13. Salt to taste
14. Oil
15. Mustard seeds - 1tsp
16. Jeera - 1/2 tsp
17. Water - 1/2 cup
18. Sev - 3 tsp (Optional) 
19. Lemon juice - 1/2 tsp

Method:

• Remove the slides of the bread slices.
• Cut the bread slices into small pieces.
• Take a pan add oil to it followed by mustard seeds.
• Once mustard seeds starts spluttering add jeera to it.
• Add urad dal, chana dal and green chilly.
• Add finely chopped onions.
• Add finely chopped ginger and fry it for 40 secs.
• Add tomato, red chilly powder and tumeric powder and fry it for some time.
• Add water to the pan and let it boil for 20 secs.
• Add bread pieces and mix it well.
• Stir it for another 3 mins / till the bread pieces are hot enough to have.
• Squeeze a lemon and garnish it with Coriander leaves and sev(Optional).
• Bread upma is ready to have.

Banana Oat Meal

Ingredients :

1. Quaker Original oats - 1/2 cup
2. Milk - 1 cup
3. Sugar - 1/2 tsp
4. Banana - 1
5. Almonds - 2 to 3
6. Walnuts - 1

Method :

• Add Oat meal and milk to one bowl
• Heat it in microwave for about 2 mins / till the oat meal is cooked nicely.
• Add Sugar, Sliced banana, Sliced almonds and walnut.
• Mix it nicely and Banana Oat Meal is ready to have.

Green Gram Ladoo - ( Besan Ladoo Version)

Sunday Special : Today once i woke up was planning to prepare something different. Suddenly my hubby gave idea that why dont we try Besan Ladoo ! which I never prepared before. This recipe is prepared  by my hubby so entire credit goes to him ! :)
We have used Green gram instead of besan/ ladoo flour. As green gram is good for health and also tastes same as besan ladoo. Believe it or not it came out really good ! :)

Ingredients :

1. Green Gram - 1 cup
2. Sugar - 3/4 cup / according to your taste
3. Cardamom - 1 powdered finely
4. Almonds - 7 to 8
5. Ghee - 3 tsp
6. Cashew nuts to garnish

Method :

• Add ghee to the pan and roast green gram till you get nice aroma from that.
• Keep this aside and let it cool for some time.
• Roast almonds with ghee, let it also cool for some time.

• Grind roasted green gram finely and transfer it into a bowl.
• Grind roasted almonds finely and transfer it to the same bowl.
• Add ghee to the pan and keep it on medium flame.
• Once the ghee is hot, keep the flame on low.
• Add mixture of roasted green gram and almonds to it.
• Keep frying it till the color changes to golden brown and also till you get nice aroma.
• Later add sugar and also cardamom powder and mix it nicely.
• Let it rest for 10 mins as making ladoo will be easy when it will be in warm temperature, so now ladoo powder is ready.
• Smear ghee to your hands(Optional).
• Take a handful amount of ladoo powder and make it round with the help of hands.
• Roast cashew nuts in ghee to garnish.
• Place these cashew nuts on top of the ladoo and green gram ladoo is ready to have. :)