Cracked Wheat Pan Upma

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:

Ghee – ½ palam

Cracked Wheat – ¼ padi

Sour Butter Milk – ? padi

Powdered Salt – ¼ palam

For Seasoning:

Ghee – ? palam

Red Chillies – ? palam

Mustard – ¼ palam

Urad Dal/Black Gram – ¼ palam

Cumin Seeds – 1/16 palam

Curry Leaves – ? palam

Asafoetida – veesam 1/16 r.e

Method:

1. Heat ghee in a pan and after it boils, add cracked wheat in it and fry well until golden brown. The aroma of the ghee should emerge out of the dish.

2. Add sour buttermilk. Put this in a lead coated vessel and add the fried cracked wheat in it. This vessel should be clean and rust-free.

3. Add powdered salt to it and mix well.

4. Heat ghee in a pan and add red chillies, mustard, urad dal, cumin seeds, curry leaves, asafoetida and refer to the 22nd recipe for seasoning.Set aside the asafoetida.

5. Pour the cracked wheat into the seasoning and stir well with an iron rod continuously so that it is cooked properly. The buttermilk used here should be sour and thick.

6. This dish should be eaten hot. If necessary grated coconut can be added to the butter milk and used.

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