Meatless Monday Cornmeal Upma/Savory Cornmeal ( Cornmeal Cooked Amongst Vegetables)

Upma alongside vegetables is ane of my favorite breakfast choices. But since I convey been avoiding gluten for well-nigh eighteen months now, I don't consume this anymore because Upma is made alongside cream of wheat or wheat semolina. I exercise become far for my identify unit of measurement though. One twenty-four hours I decided to sweat it alongside cornmeal.I made it alongside white cornmeal.

It was a success! My married adult man liked the sense of savour too. In fact at that spot is non much departure inwards the sense of savour betwixt the two! So forthwith I regularly brand cornmeal upma or savory cornmeal alongside nuts together with vegetables. It makes for a wholesome consummate breakfast together with is quick together with slow to make.Today I convey made this dish using yellowish cornmeal.

Servings: 4

Ingredients:

Cornmeal : 1 loving cup ( I used yellowish cornmeal, y'all tin mail away role white too).

Earthbound farm frozen peas : 1/4 cup
Earthbound farm frozen corn: 1/8 cup
Earthbound farm frozen light-green beans:1/8 cup
Carrots: 1/4 cup,diced together with cooked.
Ghee( clarified butter): 2 tbsp
Cooking oil: 2tbsp
Mustard seeds: 1/2 tsp
Curry leaves: 1 sprig
Urad dal( dissever dark lentil):1/2 tsp
Chana dal( dissever 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 role today every bit I was using yellowish 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 didactics on the parcel together with operate on aside.

Dry roast the cornmeal inwards a sauté pan on depression oestrus until fragrant( closed to 5-8 minutes) Put it inwards a plate/ bowl together with operate on aside.

In the same saute pan, forthwith oestrus crude together with ghee . 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 dissever light-green chillies, curry leaves, ginger-garlic glue together with chopped onions. Sauté until onions plow transparent.

Add the turmeric pulverization together with tomatoes together with saute until it wilts a little.

Add the cooked peas, carrots, corn together with beans.

Now add together the roasted cornmeal together with mix well, salt, saccharide together with 2 cups hot water.

Add the H2O fiddling past times little, mixing good inwards between. The cornmeal speedily absorbs the water.

Cover together with laid upwardly on real 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 alongside chopped coriander leaves.You tin mail away also garnish alongside freshly grated kokosnoot every bit well.

Serve hot. Like whatever cornmeal dish, it does non sense of savour proficient cold.

Enjoy!

Cooking made easy:

You could role dissimilar combinations of vegetables for this dish or fifty-fifty mixed vegetables. You could role exclusively peas, peas together with carrots or fifty-fifty infant Lima beans or soy beans( endamame).

Tip for salubrious living:

Eating salubrious is real essential for our well-being.Breakfast kick-starts the metabolism together with keeps y'all from existence hungry during the twenty-four hours together with from binge eating. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 wholesome breakfast would endure the perfect means to outset 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 endure remembered. Ken Venturi