What is Indian Breakfast food?
There is great variety in Indian cuisine, and popular breakfast foods vary from region to region. Eggs scrambled with spices, potatoes, and onions are popular in the morning, as are fresh fruits and yogurt. The Hindi breakfast dish, khichri is made with a mixture of rice, lentils, and spices. During their occupation of India, the English adopted this dish for their own, by adding smoked haddock, cream, and eggs, and renaming it, according to their phonetic translation of the original, kedgeree. Although tea is drunk more often on the whole, in the south of India, coffee is the caffeine provider of choice. Many people buy the beans raw and roast them at home. Popular foods include appam (thin, crepe-like rice pancakes that are often filled with spiced meat or potatoes and vegetables), idi-appam (rice noodles eaten with either sweet coconut milk or a meat curry), idli (small steamed cakes made with a lightly fermented batter of rice and split peas) and puttu (crushed rice and coconut pre
Hello! Breakfast is my favoritr meal of the day and to have an indian breakfast is such a T-R-E-A-T! In East India (Orissa,Bengal) the most popular breakfast are Idly,Bara,Puri and Upama. These are served with Ghuguni (Peas curry) or potato curry and also sweets like Rasogala, chenapoda etc Heres a pic for visual- http://www.flickr.com/photos/monkeyimage… Here is a pic od “IDLY” http://www.flickr.com/photos/lazzari/232… Heres a recipe – Soft Idly recipe- ===Ingredients=== Idly rice 2 cups (Ponni rice if possible) Urud dal 1 cup cooked rice 1/2 cup Fenugreek seeds(Methi) 1/4 tsp Salt as per taste ===Method: === Soak Idly rice and Methi together in water for about 5-6 hours. Soak urud dal in water for 3 1/2 hours. Drain the water from urud dal and grind it in mixie with little water. Fine grind it until the mixture is frothy. Keep
