Recipe: Perfect Vegetable Upma

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Vegetable Upma. In this vegetable upma recipe, semolina is cooked with onions, mixed vegetables and a delicious tempering of chillies, curry leaves, mustard seeds and urad dal. Once the semolina is cooked to a soft mushy consistency it is served hot, garnished with fresh coconut and coriander. Upma is also known as uppumavu or uppittu.

Vegetable Upma When cooked, semolina has a soft texture. Upma is an authentic Indian breakfast recipe. Upma is generally made with rava or semolina or sooji. You can cook Vegetable Upma using 17 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Vegetable Upma

  1. Prepare 1 cup of Semolina.
  2. It's 1 medium of onion finely chopped.
  3. Prepare 1 tbsp of Frozen or fresh Green peas.
  4. Prepare 1 tbsp of Boiled sweet corn.
  5. Prepare 1 of Green chilli chopped.
  6. Prepare 1/2 inch of ginger grated.
  7. Prepare 1 of Tomato finely chopped.
  8. You need 5 to 6 of Cashew.
  9. It's 2 tbsp of Ghee / oil.
  10. Prepare 1 tsp of Roasted gram daal / gram daal.
  11. You need 1 tsp of Urad dal (split and skinned black gram).
  12. Prepare 1/2 tsp of Mustard seeds.
  13. It's 1/2 tsp of Cumin seeds.
  14. It's 7 to 8 of Curry leaves.
  15. It's 1 tsp of Lemon juice.
  16. Prepare as needed of Coriander leaves.
  17. It's as needed of Bhujiya / sev.

Vegetable upma is one of the common breakfast option in almost every kitchen in India. For kids this is one of the best breakfast and tiffin item as its full of nutrition. When oil bubbles start to rise, add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, chopped green chillies, ginger and whole red chillies. Vegetable Upma with hot filter coffee is one our favorite South Indian breakfast.

Vegetable Upma step by step

  1. Heat the kadhai and add semolina in it and roast it. Stir often while roasting.when the semolina grains will become fragrant starts to look dry separate and crisp..
  2. Switch off the flame and add semolina in plate and Keep it a side..
  3. Heat the kadhai again add ghee in it,add mustard seeds when it crackle,Add cumin seeds along with gram dal and Urad dal and fry till it turns brown a bit. Immediately add cashews and begin to fry. Dals and cashews will get golden..
  4. Add onion, green chilli and ginger and fry it. Then add green peas and boiled sweet corn fry all combined. Add 2.5 cups water and salt..
  5. When water started boiling add semolina in 3-4 batches. Once you add semolina stir quickly. When semolina grains absorb water thus swell and get cooked. Add chopped tomatoes in it. Cover and allow the Upma to steam 2 minutes on low flame..
  6. Add lemon juice if required, add chopped coriander leaves. Serve hot with sauce and coriander -coconut chutany..

One of the most favourite breakfast in south Indian homes, upma and steaming hot filter coffee is one of our favorite too. Vegetable Rice Upma is a quick healthy and light breakfast option. Upma is such a versatile dish that we can make upma from almost everything, rava, wheat, oats, ragi, millets, rice and even quinoa. Adding vegetables not only makes the dish tasty but healthy too. vegetable upma is one of the most common South Indian breakfast recipes, which is now popular all over India. vegetable rava upma is a quick preparation using common ingredients like sooji, mixed vegetables, onions, urad dal and Indian tempering. Vegetable upma is very easy to prepare and it is also healthy as we are adding load of vegetables.