Upma Recipe

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

How to make vegetable upma:

1. Sift rava through a muslin / cheese cloth or very fine sieve.
2. Heat 1tbsp. pure ghee / unsalted butter and fry rava ,on amoderate heat, stiring constantly to light brown color and set aside.
3. Now heat 2 tbsp oil in a pan and add mustard seeds and allow them to splatter.
4. Add the daals : channa & urad & curry leaves to it and fry till they turn red.
5. Add onion, ginger and green chilies. Sauté for 2-3 minutes.
6. Add all the vegetables, turmeric & chili powder, and salt to taste.
7. Now add 3 cups of water and cover the pan and allow it simmer onlow heat until the vegetables are done.
8. Add the fried rava to it stirring constantly till it becomes little thick.
9. Take off from the heat and lemon juice if desired.
10. Serve hot garnished with cashews and coriander.