Rava Upma/Rawa Upma / Suji Upma/ Semolina Upma-Quick and healthy Breakfast Recipes/Healthy Breakfast recipe for children
According
to Wiki “ Upma or Uppuma or Uppittu is a common South Indian, Maharashtrian and
Sri Lankan Tamils breakfast dish, cooked as a thick porridge from dry roasted
semolina or coarse rice flour. Various seasonings and/or vegetables are often
added during the cooking, depending on individual preferences. These days, it
is popular in most parts of India and is prepared in various ways”
However
I must add that it is also cooked in Bengali household with a little variation
in the cooking method. It also brings back memories of Delhi University PGW
hostel days when we used to eagerly wait for weekend for some good food and
Upma was one of them in the breakfast.
I
usually cook this almost every second weekend for my daughter as she can easily
self-feed this breakfast. It is healthy, easy to make without much fuss, adults
can eat it too. I don’t know why I didn’t
think about sharing the recipe before till someone requested the recipe.
Without
much ado, the recipe.
Rava Upma/ Suji Upma/ Semolina Upma-Quick
and healthy Breakfast Recipes/Healthy Breakfast recipe for children
Preparation
Time: 15 minutes
Cooking
time: 25 minutes
Serve: 4
Level
Of Cooking: Moderate
Ingredients for Vegetable Upma Recipe
1 1/2 cups Semolina
(rava/suji)
1 medium Carrot
cut into ¼ inch cubes
6-8 French
beans, cut into ¼ inch cubes
1/2 cup Green
peas
1 medium Green
capsicum
1 medium Onion (optional)
2 Green
chillies (optional)
1 inch piece Ginger
2 tablespoons olive
oil (or less if you do not fry the veggies or the cashew nut)
1/2 teaspoon Mustard
seeds
10 Curry leaves
1 teaspoons Split
black gram skinless (dhuli urad dal)
1 tea spoon split
Bengal gram
1 tablespoon
coconut
10 cashew nut (optional)
2 cup water
Salt to taste
Method:
1.
Dry
roast the Suji/rava in a fry pan till they are slightly goldish (not too much
not too much) and there is a nutty flavour. Then keep them
aside
2.
Wash
and cut all the vegetables. You can actually use as many and as much veggie as
you want
3.
Give
oil in the fry pan and warm
4.
Add
mustard seed
5.
When
it starts popping add the Urad dal and Bengal gram, fry till they are lightly golden
(1mins maybe or less!!)
6.
Add
curry leave, onion and the cashew nut and fry till onions are translucent, by
this time nuts should be fried too.
7.
Add
veggies and sauté a little
8.
Add
warm water
9.
Add
the rava or suji.
10. Add salt as per taste and add green
chili ( if using)
11. Cook
till water is reduced and the upma is thick in consistency
12. Garnish with coconut and serve with coconut
chutney or coconut tomato chutney
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