Recipe- Easy To Make Vegetable Upma

Upma (Uppittu) is very tasty and easy to make breakfast food item. Vegetable Rava upma is one of the most common traditional south indian breakfast dish and its enjoyed with plain coconut chutney, sambar, green mint chutney or even pickle. Here is the recipe for rava upma/vegetable uppittu.

Ingredients

1 cup Rava / Sooji (Semolina)
25 gms fried Cashew Nuts (optional)
1 inch Ginger chopped
1 chopped Onion
3 Green Chillies slit sideways
1 Potato chopped
1 Capsicum chopped
1 Carrot chopped
1/4 cup Green Peas frozen or fresh
1 tsp Mustard Seeds
1 tsp Urad Daal
1 tsp Channa Daal
Salt to taste
1/2 tsp Turmeric Powder
Chili powder to taste (optional)
2 tblsp Oil
Few curry leaves
Finely chopped coriander leaves
1 tblsp Ghee
Lemon juice to taste

Method

* Sift rava through a muslin / cheese cloth or very fine sieve.

* Heat 1tbsp. pure ghee / unsalted butter and fry rava ,on amoderate heat, stiring constantly to light brown color and set aside.

* Now heat 2 tbsp oil in a pan and add mustard seeds and allow them to splatter.

* Add the daals : channa & urad & curry leaves to it and fry till they turn red.

* Add onion, ginger and green chilies. Sauté for 2-3 minutes.

* Add all the vegetables, turmeric & chili powder, and salt to taste.

* Now add 3 cups of water and cover the pan and allow it simmer onlow heat until the vegetables are done.

* Add the fried rava to it stirring constantly till it becomes little thick.

* Take off from the heat and lemon juice if desired.

* Serve hot garnished with cashews and coriander.