Cracked Wheat Thick Porridge

As the recipes below will show, the basic ingredients are coarsely ground rice or wheat or flattened rice, seasoning with ghee and water as required. Nowadays, upma is also prepared using different kinds of millets, coarsely ground bajra, jowar, maize, etc.

Ingredients:

Cracked Wheat – ¼ padi

Powdered Salt – ¼ palam

Sour Butter Milk – ? padi

Ghee – 2½ palam

For Seasoning:

Red Chillies – 1/16 palam

Mustard – 3 veesam 3/16 palam

Urad Dal/Black Gram – ¼ palam

Cumin Seeds – veesam 1/16 palam

Asafoetida – 4 ku.e

Curry Leaves – veesam 1/16 r.e

Method:

1. Heat ghee in a pot that can hold half padi rice. Refer to the seasoning recipe given earlier and add, mustard, urad dal, cumin, asafoetida and curry leaves.

2. Add cracked wheat to the seasoning and stir well. After it is fried to golden brown and the aroma of the ghee spreads, add powdered salt to the cracked wheat. Take sour buttermilk in a cup in the left hand and pour it little by little in the dish, also stirring continuously with the
right hand. After all the buttermilk is poured, keep it on slow fire for 5 minutes and set aside for use.

3. Some people may just use water instead of buttermilk. But using butter milk is best and it should be thick and not watery.

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