UPPITU/UPMA

I know, normally people show faces when breakfast will be UPMA at home. Even upma could be tasty, depends on how you make it. we can make Uppitu in different ways. Here it is with grated cocnut.

Ingredients:

Rava (either bansi rava or white suji rava). secret of tasty upma is frying rava in a low flame till rava turns little brown.

Once rava is fried well you can store it for a month.

For 3 servings

200 gms of rava fried

Chana dal 1 tablespoon.

Mustard 2 tea spoons.

Cumin seeds 2 table spoons.

Grated cocnut 4/5 table spoons.

Ginger 1/2 table spoon finely chopped.

Green chillies 2 nos cut into small.

Coriander leaves chopped 2 table spoons.

Jeera and pepper powder 1 -2 tea spoons.

Asafoetida pinch.

Oil 2 table spoons.

Salt to taste/ water as per measurement.

for 1 cup rava 2 cups water.

Make it this way:

Take a vessal, add oil, mustard/ after it cracks, add cumin seeds,

Next add chana dal, saute till it turns little brown, add asafoetida, green chilles, curry leaves,

ginger and leave it for a minute.

Add water to it and let it boil, while boiling add jeera pepper powder(this is made in 2:1 propotion) (Jeera 2 and pepper 1 fired and powdered) later add rava and saute it well till it is done.

Finally add coriander leaves and grated cocnut and serve hot.