Semolina Upma. Fill Your Cart With Color Today! Essentially, upma is a thick, porridge-like breakfast dish that is made from coarse rice flour or semolina that has been dry-roasted. Its extremely versatile, so don't be afraid to experiment with ingredients and flavors.

This traditional dish involves cooking roasted rava in water that has been flavored by ghee (or oil), cashews, urad dal (lentils), chana dal (husked chickpeas), onion, ginger and additional herbs and spices. Sugar can be added for a mildly sweet and savory dish. Add all the chopped vegetables and sauté until half cooked (you can add vegetables of your own choice). You can have Semolina Upma using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Semolina Upma

It's 1 cup of semolina or suji.
It's 4 cups of boiled water.
Prepare 2 of onions finely chopped.
It's 2-3 of green chillies chopped.
You need 1 inch of Grated Ginger.
It's 2 tbsp of green peas.
It's 5-6 of Curry leaves.
It's leaves of As required Chopped coriander.
You need 1 tsp of mustard seeds.
You need 1 tsp of urad dal.
It's 1 tbsp of oil.
You need of As per taste salt.
It's 1 tsp of ghee.
You need 1 tsp of lemon juice.
It's of As required Barik sev for garnishing.

Upma is a traditional South Indian breakfast dish made by simmering roasted rava in tempered & spiced boiling water. Rava is the South Indian word for 'semolina' so it is also known as rava upma. Return pan to medium heat and heat ghee or oil until shimmering. Rava / Sooji (Semolina) Upma Recipe is one of the favorite breakfast item in south India.

Semolina Upma step by step

Firstly dry roast semolina on low flame till it's slightly pinkish in colour and becomes aromatic..
Now, boil 4 cups of water..
Meanwhile, heat oil in a kadhai and add Mustard seeds, let it splutter, now add urad dal, then add, Curry leaves, Chopped green chillies, grated ginger and chopped onions. Saute well..
Now add green peas. Cover and cook till peas are soft and tender. Now add roasted semolina and salt. Mix well..
Now to this add boiling water and keep stirring to avoid formation of any lumps. Mix well cover and cook for another 2 mins..
Now, finally add chopped coriander leaves, ghee and lemon juice. Switch off the flame.
Serve hot and tasty upma by garnishing it with barik sev with ginger tea.
Enjoy making this recipe and do share your experiences, comments, remarks and suggestions. Take care and stay safe 💗.

Very tasty, very light, very healthy and very simple and easy to cook. Suji/ semolina upma can serve as a healthy and filling breakfast for your little ones. You may add vegetables to it making it all the more wholesome. Here I have added grated carrot to the upma. Semolina is known as rava or sooji (suji) in Hindi.