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:

Aval/Flattened Rice/Poha – ½ padi

Water – ¾ padi

Salt – ¾ palam

Grated Coconut – 3 palam

For seasoning:

Ghee – 1/16 padi

Urad Dal/Black Gram – ½ palam

Red Chillies – 1 r.e

Mustard – ½ palam

Cumin Seeds – ? r.e

Curry Leaves – ¼ r.e

Method:

1. Soak the flattened rice in water and drain the water. Heat ghee in a rust free vessel. Refer to the seasoning recipe and add urad dal, red chillies, mustard, cumin seeds and curry leaves.

2. After the seasoning is done add the flattened rice/poha and powdered salt, grated coconut and stir well. Remove after 10 minutes from the stove. Fry cashew nuts in ghee and add to the dish.

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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