Rava Onion Upma Recipe - Healthy Breakfast Recipe

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Upma or uppuma is made from Rava (called cream of wheat or semolina,)is a popular Indian breakfast dish. It is one of the commonly made recipes in south indian recipes. It is called 'Uppitu'(Kannada), 'Tikhat Sanja'(Marathi), 'Suji ka namkeen halwa'(hindi) in indian languages.

It is a healthy breakfast or a filling snack. My family loves to eat it at lunch or dinner too. It can be a one dish meal with the many vegetables added to it.

It is a very nutritious dish because of the variety of vegetables added to it. Onions, beans, carrots, peas, potatoes, tomatoes, capsicum etc. are generally added to this. You many add only one or a combination of vegetables to it.

I have also made it by adding cabbage or cucumber or eggplant(brinjal) to it and it tastes good too. You can add these other vegetables if you are fasting and want to avoid using onions.

The image above is of vegetable upma with beans, carrots, peas which makes it colorful. I love it when the food is colorful. Don't you?

You can also make vegetable masala upma by adding a variety of vegetables and your favorite masala - spice mix.

How to make Onion Upma

Ingredients for onion upma to make 2-3 servings.

• Rava - 1 cup
• water - 2 cups
• Onion - 1 large
• green chillis - 2 or more according to taste.
• curry leaves - 7-8
• oil - 3 tbsp
• Mustard seeds - 1/2 teaspoon
• chana dal - 1 tsp
• urad dal - 1 tsp
• salt - 1 1/2 tsp or to taste
• sugar - 1/2 tsp
• Fresh grated coconut - 2 tbsp
• coriander leaves - 1 small bunch

Preparation:

• Roast rava on mediam flame for 7-8 minutes, till it is imparts aroma.
• Chop onion, coriander leaves, ginger finely.
• Chop green chilles in big pieces.

Cooking uppit Method

1. Heat oil in a deep pan.
2. Add mustard seeds. When they crackle, add chana dal, urad dal.
3. fry till dal is light brown. Add chilli pieces. Fry for 1 minute.
4. Add chopped onion. Fry till onion is transperant.
5. Add water. Bring to boil. Add salt, sugar.
6. Reduce flame. Add roasted rava. Mix well so as not to let form lumps.
7. Cover and cook for 5 minutes on low flame.
8. Add grated coconut, chopped coriander leaves. Mix well.

Serve Hot.

Tips:

1. You may roast rava in large quantities when you have time and keep it for making upma when you are in hurry. Saves time.
2. Roasting rava or semolina properly while stiring on low or medium flame is important. If rava is not roasted well, the uppuma will be sticky when ready. If rava is roasted too much and allowed to be browned, the color of uppittu will be dark. So be careful while roasting rava.
3. You can also add 1 cup chopped, mixed vegetables - green peas, beans , carrots, potato, cabbage, cauliflower, capsicum etc. Chop them fine and add them after the onions are fried. Or you may omit onions if you wish.

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