Bread Masala

Ingredients:

8 Bread slices

1 medium sized Onion

1 medium sized Tomato

1-2 Green Chillies

1-2 tsp Frozen Green Peas or Cashew nuts

4-5 strands of Coriander leaves

2-3 drops of Lemon Juice

1/4 - 1/2 tsp Garam Masala

1/4 tsp Mustard seeds

2 tsp Oil / Ghee

Pinch of Salt

Recipe:

Remove thick sides of bread slices and cut them into small pieces as shown in the picture below.

Put 2 tsp ghee/oil in a pan and fry chopped bread pieces for about 4-5 mins in medium flame.

Chop onion, tomato into medium sized thin pieces, cut green chilly into two pieces as shown in the picture below. 

Put mustard seeds, 1 tsp oil in a thick bottomed vessel/pan. Once it starts spluttering, add green chillies, chopped onion, frozen green peas. Fry them for about 4-5 mins in medium flame until onion turns golden in color. Add chopped tomatoes, pinch of salt, garam masala and fry them for about 4-5 mins in medium flame. 

Add fried bread pieces and mix well. Keep the masala in low flame for about 1-2 mins.

Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and serve hot.

Jeera Rice

Ingredients:

1 cup Basmathi Rice

1 tsp Cumin seeds / Jeera / Jeerige

1/4 medium sized Onion

1/2 Bey leaf

2 Green Chillies

5-6 strands of Coriander leaves

Salt to taste

2 tsp Ghee

Recipe:

Wash the rice and soak it in water for about 20-30 mins. 

Chop onion, green chillies into medium sized pieces as shown in the picture below. Chop coriander leaves into small pieces as shown in the picture below.

Put 2 tsp Ghee, cumin seeds, bay leaf in a pan. Once cumin seeds starts spluttering add chopped green chillies and onion. Fry them for about 4-5 mins in medium flame until onion turns golden in color. Add 2 1/4 cups of water, salt and bring it to boil. Add soaked rice and cook in high flame by covering a lid until almost all the water content is dried up.

Add chopped coriander leaves and mix well. Keep jeera rice in low flame for about 5-10 mins. 

Serve along with Capsicum Raitha / Any Kind of curries.