I intend UPMA is ane of the to the lowest degree liked breakfast items. It by as well as large bland, tasteless as well as looks similar a lump of cooked cream of wheat.. Right??
WRONG! Upma when made properly turns out delicious! It is all inward how you lot brand it. There is a real sparse trouble betwixt success as well as failure of UPMA. It has to survive roasted to the correct amount, in that place has to survive the correct sum to ghee( clarified butter) as well as the correct sum of water. It should non survive likewise dry out or likewise runny. You know it is practiced when it easily as well as nicely leaves the pan when sautéing.
There are several ways of making upma. You could arrive simply alongside a tempering of mustard seeds, curry leaves, urad dal, Chana dal as well as greenish chillies. In the terminate it is garnished alongside freshly grated coconut.This is ordinarily the to the lowest degree liked version. Others add together chopped onions to the higher upwardly tempering which according to me makes it a lilliputian to a greater extent than tastier. Then others add together chopped tomatoes inward improver to the onions. Me, I add together vegetables likewise as well as around nuts. This non exclusively makes it tastier, it makes it healthier too.. My version is also called equally Baath or Vegetable Baath as well as is commonly served for breakfast at Mangalorean GSB weddings as well as brahmopodesham( thread ceremony).
Servings: 4
Ingredients:
Sooji ( wheat semolina) : 1 cup
Peas as well as carrots: 1 cup, cooked.
Ghee( clarified butter): two tbsp
Cooking oil: 2tbsp
Mustard seeds: 1/2 tsp
Curry leaves: 1 sprig
Urad dal: 1/2 tsp
Chana dal: 1/2 tsp
Cashew halves:1 tbsp( optional)
Onion: 1 medium, diced small
Green chillies: 2, slit lengthwise
Ginger-garlic paste: 1/2 tsp
Turmeric powder(haldi): 1/4 tsp
Garam masala powder: 1/8 tsp
Sugar: 1/4 tsp
Cilantro leaves: 1 tbsp( for garnishing)
Salt: to taste
Water: two cups
Method:
Boil two cups H2O inward a saucepan/ kettle.
Heat crude as well as ghee inward a kadai/wok/sauté pan. Add mustard seeds. Once the mustard seeds splutter, add together the urad dal, chana dal as well as cashew halves. Sauté for few seconds.
Add the separate greenish chillies, curry leaves, ginger-garlic glue as well as chopped onions. Sauté until onions plough transparent.Add the turmeric pulverization as well as sauté for v seconds.
Add the tomatoes as well as saute until it wilts slightly.
Now add together the sooji as well as saute for 3-4 mins on depression until the sooji looks a lilliputian blossomed(bigger). You know it's done when you lot tin appreciate the private grains of semolina.
Now add together the cooked peas as well as carrots, salt, sugar, garam masala as well as two cups hot water. Add the H2O lilliputian yesteryear little, mixing good inward between.
Cover as well as laid upwardly on real depression open fire for 3-4 mins, stirring inward between. You know the upma is done when it easily leaves the pan upon stirring.
Garnish alongside chopped coriander leaves.
Serve hot alongside around mixture, yogurt, chips or yesteryear itself.
Enjoy!
Cooking made easy:
Always laid upwardly this dish on medium-to-low flame.
Traditionally exclusively ghee is used to brand this dish. I used a combination of crude as well as ghee as well as thus that it is a lilliputian to a greater extent than healthier. If likewise lilliputian ghee/oil is used, this dish turns out likewise dry.
Tip for salubrious living:
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References:
http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-living/fitness/in-depth/exercise/art-20048389
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/staying-active-full-story/
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Food for thought:
People may postulate heed your words, but they experience your attitude. John C. Maxwell.