Rava Upma

Rava Upma

Rava Upma is an easy breakfast dish. I am not doing much of blah blah today and straight going to the recipe :)


Ingredients:

• Rava (semolina) - 1 cup
• Water - 3 cups
• Big Onion (sliced lengthwise) - 1/2
• Tomato - 1/2
• Peas - Frozen or fresh - 1 tablespoon
• Chana dhal - 1/2 tablespoon
• Mustard seeds - 1/4 teaspoon
• Curry Leaves - 2 sprigs
• Coriander leaves (chopped) - 1 tablespoon
• Green chillies(slit lengthwise) - 2
• salt - as per taste
• Ghee - 1 tablespoon
• Asafoetida - a pinch

Preparation:

• Roast the rava in a pan for few minutes.
• Soak chana dal in half glass of water for 15 minutes.
• Thaw the peas if you are using frozen peas.
• Heat a pan and add ghee. Once the ghee is heated, add mustard seeds.Let it crackle.
• Add chopped onion, green chillies, chana dal, peas, curry leaves and a little salt and fry them well.
• Once the onion becomes translucent, add  tomatoes and asafoetida powder and mix well.

• Add water and bring it to a boil.Add required salt.

• Once water boils, keep it in medium flame and add the coriander leaves and then add the roasted rava using one hand and stirring constantly with the other hand.
• You need to stir constantly, else the rava will turn into lumps.
• Once the rava is cooked, put off the flame and serve hot with chutney / sambhar.