Fundamental Concepts and Principles

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:

Rice Flour – ¼ padi

Salt – ¼ palam

Sour Butter Milk – 3/8 padi

Grated Coconut – 2 palam

For Seasoning:

Ghee Or Sesame Oil – 1½ palam

Red Chillies – 1/8 palam

Mustard – 3 veesam 3/16 palam

Urad Dal – ½ palam

Curry Leaves – 1/8 palam

Asafoetida – veesam 1/16 r.e

Method:

1. Put coarsely ground rice flour in a rust-free vessel. Add powdered salt and sour buttermilk to the rice flour and mix well.

2. Refer to the 22 nd recipe for seasoning and add ghee or sesame oil, red chillies, mustard, urad dal, curry leaves, asafoetida.

3. Set aside the asafoetida. Pour the rice flour into the seasoning and stir well with an iron rod continuously so that the flour becomes smooth.

4. The buttermilk used here should be sour and thick. This dish should be eaten hot. If necessary grated coconut can be added to the butter milk and used.

Method

The key aspect of breakfast food such as upma, poha, porridge is its quickness and ease of preparation – the whole process does not take more than 15 minutes, from start to finish. Hence, it is an ideal item to prepare when the number of people to feed is large or one is pressed for time.

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