Upma amongst vegetables is 1 of my favorite breakfast choices. But since I accept been avoiding gluten for close xviii months now, I don't consume this anymore because Upma is made amongst cream of wheat or wheat semolina. I do arrive for my household unit of measurement though. One twenty-four hours I decided to endeavor it amongst cornmeal.I made it amongst white cornmeal.
It was a success! My hubby liked the sense of savor too. In fact at that spot is non much divergence inwards the sense of savor betwixt the two! So straightaway I regularly brand cornmeal upma or savory cornmeal amongst nuts too vegetables. It makes for a wholesome consummate breakfast too is quick too slowly to make.Today I accept made this dish using xanthous cornmeal.
Servings: 4
Ingredients:
Cornmeal : 1 loving cup ( I used xanthous cornmeal, y'all tin piece of job white too).
Earthbound farm frozen peas : 1/4 cup
Earthbound farm frozen corn: 1/8 cup
Earthbound farm frozen dark-green beans:1/8 cup
Carrots: 1/4 cup,diced too cooked.
Ghee( clarified butter): 2 tbsp
Cooking oil: 2tbsp
Mustard seeds: 1/2 tsp
Curry leaves: 1 sprig
Urad dal( carve upward dark lentil):1/2 tsp
Chana dal( carve upward chick-pea): 1/2 tsp
Cashew halves:1 tbsp( optional)
Earthbound farm Onion: 1 medium, diced small
Earthbound farm tomato:1 small, diced
Green chillies: 2, slit lengthwise
Ginger-garlic paste: 1/2 tsp
Turmeric powder(haldi): 1/4 tsp( optional). I did non piece of job today every bit I was using xanthous cornmeal.
Sugar: 1/4 tsp
Salt: to taste
Water: 2 cups
Cilantro leaves: 1 tbsp( for garnishing)
Freshly grated coconut: 1 tbsp for garnishing.
Method:
Boil 2 cups H2O inwards a saucepan/ kettle.
Cook all the frozen vegetables every bit per the pedagogy on the bundle too travel along aside.
Dry roast the cornmeal inwards a sauté pan on depression oestrus until fragrant( approximately 5-8 minutes) Put it inwards a plate/ bowl too travel along aside.
In the same saute pan, straightaway oestrus stone oil too ghee . Add mustard seeds. Once the mustard seeds splutter, add together the urad dal,chana dal too cashew halves. Sauté for few seconds.
Add the carve upward dark-green chillies, curry leaves, ginger-garlic glue too chopped onions. Sauté until onions plough transparent.
Add the turmeric pulverisation too tomatoes too saute until it wilts a little.
Add the cooked peas, carrots, corn too beans.
Now add together the roasted cornmeal too mix well, salt, saccharide too 2 cups hot water.
Add the H2O lilliputian past times little, mixing good inwards between. The cornmeal speedily absorbs the water.
Cover too laid upward on rattling depression flaming for 3-4 mins, stirring inwards between.
You know the upma is done when it easily leaves the pan upon stirring.
Garnish amongst chopped coriander leaves.You tin also garnish amongst freshly grated kokosnoot every bit well.
Serve hot. Like whatever cornmeal dish, it does non sense of savor practiced cold.
Enjoy!
Cooking made easy:
You could piece of job dissimilar combinations of vegetables for this dish or fifty-fifty mixed vegetables. You could piece of job solely peas, peas too carrots or fifty-fifty infant Lima beans or soy beans( endamame).
Tip for salubrious living:
Eating salubrious is rattling essential for our well-being.Breakfast kick-starts the metabolism too keeps y'all from existence hungry during the twenty-four hours too from binge eating. H5N1 wholesome breakfast would hold upward the perfect means to get-go the day.
References:
http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/most-important-meal
http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/many-benefits-breakfast
http://kidshealth.org/parent/nutrition_center/healthy_eating/breakfast.html
Food for thought:
The greatest gift inwards life is to hold upward remembered. Ken Venturi