Maharashtrian Upma Recipe Simple & Quick Breakfast Healthy Recipe

              Quick Upma is one of the most common breakfast item, all over INDIA.  Its mainly found Southern as well as Western part of India, particularly in Maharashtra it is made as breakfast or even as an evening snack.  It is a quick preparation using common ingredients.  Made from rava, and also make it healthier by adding a lot of boiled vegetables like carrots, beans, peas along with rava when cooking.

INGREDIENTS:

1 cup - semolina/rava/sooji

1 ½ tbsp - oil

½ tsp - mustard seeds(rai) & cumin

3-4 tsp - Peanuts (moongfali/shingdana)

 Some curry leaves/kadi patta

2 slit green chillies

1 small - chopped onions

1 small - chopped tomato

½ turmeric powder

salt to taste

2 tsp - lemon juice

1 tsp - sugar

1 tbsp - finely chopped coriander/dhania

Instructions

To make upma, heat the semolina/ rava in a kadhai and dry roast on a medium flame for 4 to 5 minutes. Keep aside.

Heat the oil in a kadhai and add some mustard & cumin seeds. When the seeds crackle, add the Peanuts (moongfali) and fry until the peanuts turn to golden and aromatic. After a few seconds add some curry leaves for fragrance and green chillies. Saute on a medium flame for a few seconds. Add the onions and saute on a medium flame for 1 to 2 minutes and add some chopped tomato saute for 1 to 2 minutes.

Add the roasted semolina/rava and salt, mix well and add 2 cups of hot water, then cover with a lid and cook on a low flame for 5 minutes, until the water evaporates. Open the lit and stirring continuously.

Add the lemon juice and sugar, mix well and cook on a medium flame for another 1 minute, while stir once.

Serve the upma immediately garnished with coriander.

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