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| 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.
