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Breakfast and Brunch in India - an overview
 Great variety is found for breakfast in different regions. Commonly found are eggs, scrambled with spices, potatoes and onions as well as fresh fruit and yoghurt.
Chana puri is a good breakfast option in the North and quite spicy and alu paratha with dhal is another traditional start to the day. The usual North Indian breakfast consists of chapati or paratha breads with a vegetable curry, plus sweets like kaju burfi.
In the South the nearest equivalent is iddi sambar for breakfast, which is steamed rice pancakes (made with fermented batter of rice and split peas) eaten with coconut paste and spiced with chillies. Masala dosa as another option are large thin pancakes served with a potato based spicy filling or mixed vegetables in spicy gravy with yoghurt and coconut chutney.
It is also in the south where branches of the India Coffee House can be depended upon for decent coffee and toast. Therefore the most popular breakfast is an assortment with several possible main dishes, such as idlis, vadas, dosas and chapatis. These are most often served with hot sambar and at least one kind of chutney (usually coconut chutney). Breakfast is usually followed by a glass of tea or coffee, both made with milk and sugar. Pongal is a common breakfast item in Tamil Nadu, while uppittu and kesaribath are the common items in Karnataka. In urban areas, omlettes and simple butter sandwiches are becoming a popular breakfast food.
The Hindi breakfast dish khichri is made with a mixture of lentils, rice and spices. It was the occupying English that adapted this dish by adding smoked haddock, cream and eggs – known as kedgeree.
In the Kashmir region early breakfast would be tea and bread. The tea is green, can be drunk plain or with sugar, cardamom and ground almonds, which is called kahva. The bread would be unleavened wheat bread sometimes slightly sweet (bakirkhani) and sometimes sesame sprinkled (tsachvaru).
Other breakfast items found around this vast region include appam – thin rice pancakes often filled with spiced meat or potatoes and vegetables. Idi-appam – rice noodles eaten with sweet coconut milk or meat curry and puttu – crushed rice and coconut in layers moulded and steamed and served with milk and bananas.
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In India...don't get me started, it is lovely fresh poories with aloo bhaji, mooli or aloo paratha, lassi etc. etc. In the South, idli or dosa. Mamta 10/08/06.
In Maharashtra, Poha(tempered pressed rice flakes), Upma (spicy semolinan preparation), Shira ( sweet semolina pudding with saffron & nuts), Missal pav (Spicy lentil curry) is frequently eaten for breakfast. Mumbai's staple diet...the eternal Vada pav(Tempered potato fritters). Ruturaj 04/08/07
The aloo parathas we had in delhi were magnificent. The only cereal we tended to see was Kelloggs cornflakes
I tried this gorgous, gorgous porridge made from semolina with liquid honey, nuts, raisins and dates In Amrhitsa it was the tastiest porridge.
We also tried this breakfast pizza which was vegetarian, it was the best pizza I had ever tasted. It was here I had an utterpam ohhhhhh my goodness it was the very best thing I had eaten there, it was a fermented white lentil and rice pancake with tomatoes and onions that was fried in a pan. I so would like to find a recipe to be able to make it.
On Christmas day Bruce my partner and I wanted to find a western style restaurant to have our Christmas meals in and we found this great restaurant in central Amrhitsa. He had fish in cream sauce and fried potatoes, which I teased him about having fish and chips for breakfast.
As we moved further down through the south of India the breakfast cuisine really changed, just loved the dosas and the idlis. I took a jar of peanut butter and a jar of marmite with me, and when things were a bit spicy I often had one or the other on chapatis.
We took a side trip up to Darjeeling, and we happened to come across this little cafe with the most wonderful view of the mountains, and ordered breakfast there, it was a typical English breakfast with the most incredible bacon we had ever tasted, and it was the first time we had had bacon in nearly a month by this time, there was bacon, sausages, toast, juice, fried potatoes and we asked for poached eggs ... They poached them alright... in ghee, so that was a bit of a giggle for us.
Loved the breakfasts, but by the time we returned home to New Zealand I was just craving cereal and fresh fruit so much. Tessa 01/10/07
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