Recipe:-
Upma Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 12-15 minutes
Serves: 02
Ingredients
For Sautéing Rava
1 ½ tbsp ghee
1 cups/ 165 gms bombay rava/ sooji
For Upma
3 tbsp oil (any refined oil)
1 tsp mustard Seeds
1 tbsp gota urad/ whole polished urad
1 tbsp chana dal/ bengal gram
8 no cashew nuts, cut into half
1 tbsp ginger, chopped
1 medium onion, chopped
1 medium fresh green chilli, chopped
12-15 no curry leaves
3 ½ cups water
Salt to taste
¼ tsp sugar
1 wedge of lime
1 tbsp fresh coriander leaves with it’s tender stems, chopped
1 tbsp ghee
Process:-
● Heat ghee in kadhai and heat. Add rava and saute for 2-3 minutes on low flame. Stir continuously while stirring so that every grain of rava should coat with a ghee evenly. Remove from the flame and keep aside for later use.
● For Upma, heat oil in a same kadhai and splutter mustard seeds, follo
wed by chana dal, gota urad and cashew nuts. Saute until they turn light brown. ● Now add ginger and cook for a minute until ginger releases its raw smell.
● Add onion, green chilli and curry leaves and saute until onion turn translucence.
● Add in water, salt, sugar and allow it to boil. When it starts boiling allow it it to boil for a 2 minute. In this way all the flavors will infuse in water.
● Now at this stage add in prepared rava. Stir continuously while cooking to avoid any lumps.
● When almost all the water is absorbs reduce the flame (make sure it must have porridgey consistency) and cover with the lid for 1 minute.
● Remove the lid and sprinkle lime juice, coriander leaves and ghee. Mix well.
● Serve immediately.