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Hotel-style upma recipe | Rava upma recipe | upma recipe

Author Nehas Cook Book
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Course Breakfast, Snack
Cuisine Indian
Servings 4 servings

Ingredients
 

  • 1 cup sooji rava - semolina
  • 1 tbsp + 1 tbsp ghee
  • 2 tbsp oil
  • 3 tbsp peanuts
  • 6-7 cashews
  • 1 tsp mustard seeds
  • 1 tsp chana dal
  • 1 tsp urad dal
  • 3-4 chopped green chilli
  • 1 inch chopped ginger
  • 7-8 curry leaves
  • ½ cup chopped onion
  • ¼ cup chopped carrot
  • ¼ cup chopped green beans
  • ¼ cup green peas
  • 2.5 cup water
  • ½ cup milk
  • Salt to taste
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice
  • Some coriander leaves

Instructions

Roasting Rava

  • Add 1 tbsp of ghee to a pan and roast the sooji on medium heat until fragrant, around 10 minutes, stirring continuously. Remove the sooji from the pan and transfer it to a plate.

Making Upma

  • In the same pan, add 2 tbsp of oil and 1 tbsp of ghee. Add peanuts and cashews and roast until slightly golden brown. Set them aside.
  • In the pan, add mustard seeds, chana dal, and urad dal. Roast the dal until it is slightly golden brown.
  • Then add ginger paste, chopped green chili, and curry leaves. Sauté for a minute.
  • Add chopped onion and cook until the onion becomes transparent.
  • Add chopped carrot, chopped green beans, and green peas, and sauté until the raw smell of the peas goes away.
  • Now add 2.5 cups of water and ½ cup of milk. Mix well and let the mixture come to a boil. Once it comes to a boil, take the roasted rava and add salt and sugar to it. Mix well and start adding the roasted sooji little by little. Add all the sooji in the same way.
  • Cook the mixture until it thickens.
  • Add the roasted peanuts and cashews and 1 tsp of ghee. Do not mix it, cover, and cook for 2-3 minutes.
  • Turn off the heat, add lemon juice and coriander leaves, and mix well.
  • Serve upma with coconut chutney.

Notes

  • Use coarse rava (sooji) for upma.
  • Roasting rava with ghee gives a nice flavor to upma.
  • Roast rava/sooji properly until it is fragrant, but it shouldn’t turn brown.
  • Adding some milk makes the upma soft and moist for a longer period.
  • The water and milk mixture to rava ratio should be 3:1.
  • Upma taste great when it is serve hot.