Bread Poha – Quick Meal fixer

Recipe

• 8-10 slices of bread. Depending on your preference, you can either cut it into bite size chunks or process them in the mixer and make bread crumbs.
• 1 onion – cut into slices
• 2 potato – peeled and cut into small pieces. Smaller pieces take lesser time to cook.
• Any other vegetable of your choice (Bell peppers, carrots, peas, cauliflower etc.). For a quick meal, i would suggest taking vegetables which requires less cooking.
• 1 inch ginger – grated
• 1 garlic – chopped
• 1 tsp garam masala
• 1 tsp dry mango powder (amchur)
• chili powder as per taste
• 2 tsp of freshly squeezed lemon juice
• About 2 tsp of water

for tempering

The spices can be chosen as per your taste buds. I usually take the mustard seed approach but u can go ahead with Cumin as well.

• 2 tsp vegetable oil
• pinch of asafoetida (optional)
• 6-7 curry leaves
• 2 tsp peanuts
• 2 whole dried red chillies

Method

1. Take a broad pan and add the oil to it. Now put in the peanuts and roast till golden brown. Remove from the pan and keep aside.
2. Now to proceed with the tempering, add the asafoetida, mustard seeds, curry leaves and whole dried red chillies. Let the mustard crackle.
3. Now add the onions and fry. Once the onions get translucent, add in the potatoes and other vegetables you chose, salt, ginger, garlic, chili powder and fry on a high flame for a minute. Simmer the flame and cover the pan. Let it cook till the potatoes are done.
4. Now add the bread chunks, a little salt (only enough for bread chunks as you already put in salt required for the veggies), dry mango powder & garam masala. Sprinkle some water to help in creating a saucy base for the veggies to make it easy to mix the veggies with the bread chunks nicely.
5. Keep it on low flame for about 5 minutes. This will make the Bread in the Poha crunchy, slightly toasted, and let the spices set in well. Dash in the lemon juice.
6. Serve hot with peanuts.