Preparation info
  • Serves

    1

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Curries & Bugles: A Memoir and Cookbook of the British Raj

By Jennifer Brennan

Published 1990

  • About

I almost hesitate to add this to the compendium of breakfast dishes, it is so simple. But simple is often best, and sooji is a direct connection to memories of childhood breakfasts in India. I have never even seen a recipe for it, but it comes closest to a hot cream of wheat cereal. There is a big difference, however. Toasting the grains gives a delicious, nutty flavour. Try it for breakfast on a cold winter morning, the kind of weather that used to ice the cream which rose to the to