Quick Bread Upma
A wholesome Indian recipe crafted for health-conscious eating: nutritious, delicious, and easy to make at home.
Cubed bread tossed with mustard temper, onion and veggies — a 25-minute bread upma from leftovers.
Bread upma is what you make when you have a few stale slices and no breakfast. Bread cubes are tossed with onion, tomato, mustard and curry leaves until they pick up the flavour. It is ready in ten minutes.
Ingredients
How to Make It
Temper spices; sauté veggies.
Add bread cubes; toss dry.
Finish lemon and coriander.
Nutrition per serving
* Approximate values per serving
Health Benefits
Uses leftover bread with vegetable volume. Prefer whole-wheat cubes.
Stale bread soaks up the tadka without turning to paste. It makes a quick plate that uses things you already have.
Pro Tips
- →Slightly dry/stale bread better.
- →Don’t add water.
- →Serve hot.
- →Use stale or lightly toasted bread so the cubes hold their shape.
- →Toss, do not stir, so the cubes stay whole.
- →Add lemon at the end for freshness.
A calorie note
Most of the calories in this dish come from a few ingredients. For reference, per 100 g: Cooking oil: about 884 kcal (about 40 kcal per teaspoon); Bread: about 265 kcal. Measure these with a spoon or scale, because small changes here move the total more than anything else. Values are rounded from USDA FoodData Central and the Indian Food Composition Tables (IFCT 2017), as of 13 Oct 2026, and vary by variety and by table. General information, not medical advice.
Variations
- 1Add peas.
- 2Peanuts.
- 3Add peas or grated carrot to the tadka for more vegetables.
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