Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, upma. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Upma is a traditional South Indian breakfast dish made by simmering roasted semolina in spiced boiling water. The term UPMA is derived from various South Indian words like uppumavu, upittu, uppindi. One of the most common Indian breakfast, Rava Upma or simply Upma is a savory porridge made with semolina and veggies.
Upma is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Upma is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have upma using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Upma:
- Get 1 cup semolina /Rava/sooji
- Take 2.5 cup water
- Prepare To taste salt
- Prepare 1 big onion
- Prepare 3-4 green chillies
- Prepare leaves curry
- Take 2 tsp cooking oil
- Make ready 1 tsp mustard seeds
- Get 1 tsp urad dal
- Get 1 tsp Chana dal
- Make ready 1 copped carrot
Essentially, upma is a thick, porridge-like breakfast dish that is made from coarse rice flour or semolina that has been dry-roasted. Its extremely versatile, so don't be afraid to experiment with ingredients. Upma is one of the most common South Indian breakfast recipes, which is now popular all over India. rava upma is a quick preparation using common ingredients available in the Indian kitchen. Upma or Uppuma or Uppittu is a common South Indian and Sri Lankan Tamil breakfast dish, cooked as a thick porridge from dry roasted semolina or coarse rice flour.
Steps to make Upma:
- Heat a pan or kadai first. add the rava
- Begin to roast the rava. stir often while roasting the rava. - the rava or sooji grains should become fragrant and start to look dry, separate and crisp. don’t brown the rava.
- Once the rava becomes fragrant and starts to look dry and crisp, then switch off the flame and add the roasted rava in a plate and keep aside. In a pan, heat ghee or oil and add mustard seeds.
- When you see and hear crackling sound of mustard seeds it means they are getting fried and then add chana dal and urad dal. Fry till it begins to brown a bit.
- Now add the finely chopped onions. saute the onions till they become translucent.then add the chopped green chilli, ginger and curry leaves.
- Add water to this mixture also add salt as required. Stir well on a medium to high flame, heat the water and let it come to a rolling boiling. when the water comes to a rolling boil, lower the flame to it's lowest. then add the rava in 4 to 5 batches with a spoon.
- Once you add the rava, stir immediately.Then again add the next batch of rava. stir again. once you added whole rawa, - quickly stir and mix very well. the rava grains absorb water and thus swell and get cooked.
- Cover and allow the rava upma to steam for 2 minutes on the low flame. then switch off the flame. here the rava is cooked and the upma is ready. lastly add some coriander leaves to upma and stir it well.
- Serve upma with lemon pickel or you can also add sev and carrot for garnishing
Various seasonings and/or vegetables are often added during the cooking, depending on individual preferences. Upma is a popular South Indian Breakfast dish. There are varieties of upma and I love all types of upma because they are very quick to prepare and also very delicious. Fortified with vegetables they make a. Upma Sooji is a great dish for breakfast or brunch.
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