We take breakfast very seriously

Healthy, nutritious, filling and packed with energy. If there is a contest for families that take their morning meal seriously, mine would end up in the top.

Breakfast today was 'Grilled Chicken' Sandwich NOT Grilled 'Chicken Sandwich' :D.


What you would need:
Grilled Chicken ( you can buy this off the counter in many restaurants, if you wish to make your own you will need to marinate chicken in curd, chilli powder, salt and grill this on slow heat with constant application of butter) - cut into bite size
Fresh baked bread
Onions - Finely chopped **
Tomatoes - Finely chopped
Green Chillies - Finely chopped
Fresh coriander leaves - finely chopped
Butter
Cheese slices ( You can use grated cheese of your choice as well)
Pepper

Prep:
Apply butter on one side of the bread, put the cheese slice over this.
Then put layers of chicken, onion , tomoatoes, green chillies and corainder leaves. Sprinkle some pepper
Butter another slice of bread and cover the sandwich.

You can grill, toast or pan toast this sandwich. I made the pan toasted version today and it was delicious :) . Enjoy with a bit of ketchup !!

** Do not restrict your sandwich to these vegetables, use what you have at home, thin slices of mushroom, carrots capsicum etc would make this sandwich even better.

Sunday lunch recipe - Parsi brown rice with a veggie twist

This has to be, hands down, my favourite rice recipe when I want to keep it simple and delicate.

What you would need :
Rice - 1 cup
Water -2 1/2 cups ( 2 times the rice quantity and extra for the veggies)
White sugar - 1/4 tsp
Onions - sliced 1/3 cup
Garam masala - 1/2 tsp
Cinnamon stick - 1/4 inch stick
Chopped Veggies - As much and whatever you like - I used 1 cup of chopped capsicum, cabbage, beans , cauliflower florets and sprouts :). Just remember that you are adding only 1/2 cup water for the veggies to steam. So if you add more//less veggies vary the quantity of water accordingly.
Oil - 2 tsp

Prep:
Wash the rice and then soak in cups of water for half hour.
Heat some oil in the rice cooker , add the cardamom stick till lightly aromatic.
Add sugar and stir till it melts. Now add the onion slices and ensure that they are well coated with the caramel. Add the garam masala and stir for a few seconds till the onions brown.

Add the rice along with the water and cook over high flame till the rice is half boiled ( do not completely close the cooker.)
Give the rice a quick stir and add the veggies.

Cover the lid completely and let the rice cook till well done ( 2 whistles in a pressure cooker and around 15 minutes of rice steam setting in a micro wave.)

Serve Hot and enjoy. Do try this out and tell me how you like it.

Adding the vegetables was my variation, tell me if you have any other ideas that can add a twist to the traditional Parsi brown rice recipe.