Upma Amongst Vegetables( Aka Baath)( Cream Of Wheat Cooked Amongst Vegetables)

I intend UPMA is i of the to the lowest degree liked breakfast items. It mostly bland, tasteless together with looks similar a lump of cooked cream of wheat.. Right??

WRONG! Upma when made properly turns out delicious! It is all inwards how you lot brand it. There is a really sparse trouble betwixt success together with failure of UPMA. It has to live on roasted to the correct amount, at that topographic point has to live on the correct total to ghee( clarified butter) together with the correct total of water. It should non live on likewise dry out or likewise runny. You know it is skillful when it easily together with nicely leaves the pan when sautéing.

There are several ways of making upma. You could become far simply amongst a tempering of mustard seeds, curry leaves, urad dal, Chana dal together with light-green chillies. In the terminate it is garnished amongst freshly grated coconut.This is commonly the to the lowest degree liked version. Others add together chopped onions to the higher upward tempering which according to me makes it a footling to a greater extent than tastier. Then others add together chopped tomatoes inwards add-on to the onions. Me, I add together vegetables likewise together with roughly nuts. This non solely makes it tastier, it makes it healthier too.. My version is also called equally Baath or Vegetable Baath together with is commonly served for breakfast at Mangalorean GSB weddings together with brahmopodesham( thread ceremony).

Servings: 4

Ingredients:

Sooji ( wheat semolina) : 1 cup
Peas together with carrots: 1 cup, cooked.
Ghee( clarified butter): ii 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: ii cups

Method:

Boil ii cups H2O inwards a saucepan/ kettle.

Heat fossil oil together with ghee inwards a kadai/wok/sauté pan. Add mustard seeds. Once the mustard seeds splutter, add together the urad dal, chana dal together with cashew halves. Sauté for few seconds.

Add the carve upward light-green chillies, curry leaves, ginger-garlic glue together with chopped onions. Sauté until onions plough transparent.Add the turmeric pulverization together with sauté for v seconds.

Add the tomatoes together with saute until it wilts slightly.

Now add together the sooji together with saute for 3-4 mins on depression until the sooji looks a footling blossomed(bigger). You know it's done when you lot tin arrive at the axe appreciate the private grains of semolina.

Now add together the cooked peas together with carrots, salt, sugar, garam masala together with ii cups hot water. Add the H2O footling past times little, mixing good inwards between.

Cover together with create on really depression open fire 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.

Serve hot amongst roughly mixture, yogurt, chips or past times itself.

Enjoy!

Cooking made easy:

Always create this dish on medium-to-low flame.

Traditionally solely ghee is used to brand this dish. I used a combination of fossil oil together with ghee then that it is a footling to a greater extent than healthier. If likewise footling ghee/oil is used, this dish turns out likewise dry.

Tip for good for you lot 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/

Food for thought:

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