Bread Besan Toast - Eggless Spicy French Toast - Quick Snack

Bread besan toast is a nice alternative to the French toast, for those who do not eat eggs. This is a very quick snack which can be prepared in less than 15 minutes. Use a wheat or multi-grain bread to make this evening snack a healthier option.

Ingredients
 

Bread - 3

Besan flour - 1/2 cup

Onion - 1/2, finely chopped

Coriander leaves - 1/2 tbsp, finely choped

Green chilli - 1, thinly sliced

Salt - as per taste

Hing - a pinch

Water - for making the batter

Oil/Ghee to toast 

 

Method

 

1. Mix all the above ingredients except bread to form a thin batter.

2. Dip each bread piece in the batter.

3. Heat the tawa, drizzle oil and toast both sides till light brown.While toasting press the bread slices so that all sides are cooked properly.

4. Cut each bread pieces into half diagonally.

5. Serve hot with tomato sauce!

Masala Idly - Idly LeftOvers

What to do with left over idlis. Idly upma is the only option that comes to our mind. For a change you can try this masala idly, idly pieces tossed with onion, tomatoes, capsicum and the regular spices. Its so flavorful and spicy, takes less than 15 mins to prepare. Here's the recipe!

Ingredients

Left over idlis - 5 or 6, cut into cubes or any preferred size
Onion - 1, chopped finely
Tomatoes - 2, chopped finely
Garlic - 2 or 3, chopped finely
Green chilli - 1 or 2, slit lengthwise
Capsicum - 1 tbsp, finely chopped (use any color)
Red chilli powder - 1/4 tsp
Garam masala - 1 tsp
Coriander leaves - fistful, finely chopped
Oil - 2 or 3 tsp
Curry leaves - few
Salt a pinch
(You can also use vegetables like carrot, cooked peas etc optionally)

Method

• Heat oil in a pan and add the curry leaves, garlic and green chillies. Saute for few mins. Then add the chopped onions and saute until they turn transparent. Now add the chopped tomatoes, red chilli powder, garam masala powder and required salt.
• Saute until the tomatoes turn mushy. Now add the finely chopped coriander leaves and the cubed idlis. Mix well and turn off the flame. Keep covered for couple of minutes so that the flavors blend well. Serve warm with plain curd or with ketchup.

Easy Bread-Jam Pinwheels

Kids love the combination of bread and jam. The usual bread-jam sandwich can be made attractive with these bite sized pinwheels. It would just take less than 10 minutes to prepare this. Today was the "Pot Lunch" day  at Prajwal's school. Kids has to help mom in preparing their snacks and they need to share it with their friends. So I made this pinwheels and my lil one helped me in rolling them. I made it with butter and jam combination. You can also use mayonnaise or any cheese spread or any green chutney as a variation. You can also make this a day before and refrigerate. Here I did not refrigerate, so I couldn't get perfect shaped ones. But don't worry about that, they will taste good anyways :-)

Ingredients

Bread slices
Butter
Fruit Jam

Method

Trim the sides of the bread slices and on a rolling board, place the slices and roll on them real hard. You will find that bread will become like a sheet.

Spread the butter on the top. Place another slice of bread above the butter spread bread. Roll with the rolling pin to make it flat. Now spread the jam.  Then from one side, roll inward very tightly to join the other side. You will get a long roll. Cut into smaller pieces.

If you are making this way ahead, refrigerate after rolling them. Do not cut them into small pinwheels. Refrigerate and take them out when you need to serve them. Then cut them into smaller pieces and serve.