Breakfast Notes -- Dalia Delight

As you all know, I am a firm believer in the thought that women should be treated to a well-deserved rest on Sunday. Hubbies should do the cooking -- at least the breakfast, if not the cooking for the entire day. This I call the HSBC formula -- Hubbies Sunday Breakfast Compulsory.

Well, for those who are too tired to cook or don't have any skills -- they can take a small walk and get some nice jalebi-fafda or idli-vada-sambhar or daal pakwan! Of course, one of my close friends-cousin relies on thambi.com (not a real website but a small joint in Kandivali West offering idli-vadas). He just calls his thambi (brother in Tamil, I think) who delivers some fantastic idli-vada-sambhar.

Wives can also make it easy for their hubbies by having a nice usal cooked the night before, order some pav and some farsan. You have a delicious Maharastrian breakfast of Missal Pav!

I had some organic dalia and I thought of making SMS -- Sunday Morning Surprise! This was sweet dalia with nice alphonso pieces. But I hate removing the skin of mangoes (in fact I make it a point to eat them) and at 8:00 am I cannot miss Rangoli! So SMS turned into a simple Dalia Delight.

I simply microwaved the organic dalia in milk for 5 minutes and then added Lion's Date Syrup. Had to keep on adding milk as the dalia kept on absorbing it! But had it in a decent consistency -- almost a sheera consistency. Needless to add, you can add more milk and have it like a watery porridge.

Dalia is nothing but broken wheat (lapsi). So it is healthy -- full of vitamins, minerals and nutrition, not to mention fibre. The full of course is a bit of an exaggeration, right!



I sort of enjoyed my Dalia Delight. The organic dalia was rather very fine and hence it was almost like rava, so the dalia turned out to be very smooth.

I had forgotten that we had some nice ripe jackfruit gharo (gharo is Konkani word for segments of jackfruit). I could have easily added strips of these segments to give it another nutrition and taste boost.


Of course, earlier I used to do this with normal lapsi (broken wheat) and organic gud (jaggery). This turns out even better.

Hope my student/other friends in UK, France, USA, Korea and rest of the world, who have to cook for themselves got an idea for a quick breakfast.

Also, I hope I have inspired some hubbies to take up the ladle and do some cooking. Believe me, it is fun! So, enjoy!