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!

Breakfast Notes -- Sevai Usli

Plan to provide details of my breakfast experiments in this note.

Sevai Usli / Rice Vermicelli Upma


Made an excellent Sevai usli (rice vermicelli) with green peas, sambhar powder and tomato ketchup for breakfast. Last time, I had messed up the vermicelli. This time I got it right. Wish there was a faster way to cook it!

I tweak most of the Indian breakfast recipes and typically add mushrooms, green peas, brocolli and other vegetables to make them more nutritious.

The tomato ketchup is added for the lycopene content! Many times, I simply add tomato paste also.

As you will notice, most of the stuff for this recipe are available in a packet. So now you know why I call myself an experimental packet chef!