Indian Food Recipes

For people who are bored with the normal upma, here is a variation. A little spicy and tasty masala upma. This tastes good with cucumber slices by the side.

Ingredients:

• Rava – 1 cup
• Onion – 1 big size
• Tomato – 1 big size
• Curry leaves – 2 branch
• Bengal Gram- 1/2 tbsp
• Mustard – urad dhal mixture – 1/2 tsp
• Chilli powder – 1 tsp
• Coriander powder – 1/2 tsp
• Pepper powder – 1/4 tsp
• Turmeric powder -2 pinches
• Coconut milk – 1/2 cup
• Water – 1/2 cup
• Oil or Ghee for frying
• Salt to taste

Method:

1. Take rava in a kadai and keep the flame in medium.
2. Keep stirring constantly so that heat spreads evenly on all sides of rava.
3. Take rava and taste it. If it is crispy, remove it from flame. The rava will have a light brown tint only. Don’t allow it to darken too much.
4. Keep it aside and allow it to cool.
5. Heat oil in a vessel.
6. Add bengal gram and fry till it turns light brown in colour.
7. Add Onion, curry leaves and fry till onion turns golden brown in colour.
8. Add Tomato and fry till it is cooked.
9. Add all the powders and fry till the raw smell goes (for about 1-2 minutes).
10. Add coconut milk, water and salt.
11. Wait till you see bubbles appearing to the sides of the vessel (i.e. the mixture is about to boil).
12. Lower the flame and add rava slowly little by little and keep stirring constantly to avoid lumps.
13. After rava is mixed well, close the vessel and leave it for 2 -3 minutes.
14. Open the vessel and stir it again. Taste it and see, if it needs more cooking, leave it closed for about 2 minutes.