This is a popular South Indian Breakfast recipe.
Recipe
Ingredients
- Rava/ suji/semolina – 1 bowl
- Asafetida – 1/2 teaspoon
- Mustard seeds – 1 teaspoon
- Whole red chili – 1 piece
- Onion – 1 piece chopped
- Curry leaves – 10 piece( washed and dried)
- Groundnuts – 10 pieces
- Water – 2 bowls
- Salt – to taste
- Oil – 5 teaspoon
Procedure
- Take about 3 teaspoon if oil in a kadhai and roast the groundnuts and keep aside.
In the same kadhai roast rava or suji till light brown in color and keep aside. - Add 2 teaspoon oil in kadhai and temper with asafetida, mustard seeds and whole red chili. Let the seeds crackle.
- Add curry leaves.
- Cook till the color of the leaves change.
- Now add chopped onion and cook till it turns pink.
- To this add water and adjust salt. Let the water come to boil.
- Add the roasted rava to it.
- Keep on the solution with ladle so that no lumps are formed.
- It gradually dries up .
- Add the roasted groundnuts and keep on moving the ladle for few more minutes.
Serve Upma hot. - I have added papad and banana which is a popular combination in Kerala.
Happy Cooking!!