Sooji rawa upma

Ingredients :

• Sooji rawa - 1 cup [ lightly roasted ]
• Water - 2 1 / 2 to 3 cups
• Oil 3 tbl. sp.
• Salt - as required
• Ghee - 2 sp
• Mustard seeds - 1/ 2 sp
• Urad dal - 1 / 2 sp
• Channa dal - 1 / 2 sp
• Green chilies - 1 [ finely chopped ]
• Curry leaves - chopped
• Red dry chilli - 1 [ broken into pieces ]
• Fried cashewnuts - few [ broken in to pieces ]

Method :

Heat oil in kadai, and add mustard seeds. when it splutters add urad dal, channa dal, green chillies, red chilli, and curry leaves.When dal change in colour, add water and salt. When water starts boiling add rawa little by little in sprinkling type. Stir continuously. Simmer the gas and stir till all the water is absorbed. Then add ghee, mix well and close with a lid keeping the gas in sim. After 5 mints remove from the gas and add fried cashewnuts, mix well and change into a casarolle and serve hot with coconut chutney.

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Thur uppuma

Procedure for making thur rawa:

Mix four cupsof raw rice with 1/ 2 cup of  red gram dal. [ thur ] grind it till fine rawa consistency. Preserve in airtight container. Use wherever required. [ its stays good for 2 to 3 months ]


Ingredients :

• Thur rawa - 2 cups [ heaped ]
• Green chillies - 8 to 10
• Grated fresh coconut - 1 1/ 2 tbl. sp
• Water - 3 1 / 2 cups
• Salt - as required
• Oil - 3 tbl. sp.
• Fresh ghee - 1 sp

For seasoning :

• Mustard seeds - 1 / 2 sp
• Black gram dal - 1 / 2 sp
• Bengal gram dal - 1 / 2 sp
• Broken red chillies - few
• Curry leaves - little

Method :

[ easy method using pressure pan or cooker ]

First heat oil in pressure pan, add seasonings and slit chillies. Then pour measured water with  salt and coconut. Add one teaspoon ghee and mix well. Close the lid and wait for 3 whistle to come. Switch off the gas. After 5 mints open it and garnish with curry leaves. Serve hot with pickle.

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Curd uppuma

Ingredients :

• Raw rice - 2 cups
• Coconut - 1 [ medium sized ]
• Green chillies - 10
• Sour curds - 2 cups
• Salt - as required
• Finely cut onions- 1/ 2 cup [ optional ]
• Curry leaves - few
• Oil - 5 tabl. sps.

For seasoning :

• Mustard seeds - 1 / 2 sp
• Black gram dal - 1 / 2 sp
• Bengal gram dal - 1 / 2 sp

Method :

Soak rice for 2 hours and grind it to coarse rawa consistency with green chillies and grated coconut. Then add sour curd and salt.  Make it thin like dosa batter consistency. Then heat oil in a heavy  curved pan, add seasonings curry leaves and onion. When onion fried add ground paste and stir constantly in medium flame till it is cooked. When oil separates from uppuma remove from the gas. Enjoy your curd uppuma.

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Arasi upma [ rice rawa ]

 Ingredients :

•  Good quality raw rice - 1 cup
•  Toovar dal - a handful
•  Water - 3 to 3 1/ 2 cups
•  Oil - 1 / 2 cup
•  Mustard seeds - 1/ 2 sp
•  Urad dal - 1 / 2 sp
•  Channa dal - 1/ 2 sp
•  Dry red chillies - 2 [ broken ]
•  Curry leaves - few 
•  Salt -  as required
•  Asafoetida - 1/ 4 sp
•  Fried cashewnuts - 1tabl. spoon [ broken ]

Method :

Powder rice and toovar into fine rawa and keep aside. Then heat 1 / 2 cup of   oil  in a pressure cooker, add mustard seeds. When it splutters add urad dal, channa dal and asafoetida. When the dal becomes golden in colour add broken chillies, curry leaves and remove from the gas. When slightly cooled, add 3 to 3 1 / 2 cups water, salt and allow to boil.  When it comes to boil switch off the gas, and add rice rawa in a sprinkling type gently and stir well .[ so that no lumps will be formed ] Then close the lid of pressure cooker and cook as you cook the ordinary rice. When 2 whistle comes keep the flame in sim for 10 mints.And then remove from the gas.Open the cooker and add cashewnuts fried in ghee.Serve hot with vatral kuzambu or venthaya kuzambu etc.You can make wheat rawa uppumma in the same method. Arisi upma can be made without toovar dal also.

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Bread upma

    Ingredients :

•      Bread - 1 family pack
•      Beaten curd - 1 cup
•      Salt - as required

   For seasoning :

•    Oil - 2 table spoon
•    Mustard seeds - 1/ 2 sp
•    Urad dal - 1/ 2 sp
•    Channa dal - 1/ 2 sp
•    Green chillies 3 [ finely chopped ]
•    Onion - 2 [ finely chopped ]

  Method :

Cut the bread into small pieces and keep in a bowl. In the beaten curd add very little salt. [ as bread already has salt in it. ] Put the bread in it and keep for 20 mints. Then heat oil in a frying pan, add mustard seeds. When it crackles add urad dal, channa dal, finely chopped chillies. When dal changes in colour add onion pieces and fry till it transparent. That time add bread pieces, mix well, and fry till it is almost crisp.Add a few more teaspoon oilif necessary. Remove from the fire and serve hot with tomato sauce.