Flattened Rice With Sour Lemon Juice

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:

Flattened Rice – ½ padi

Lemon Juice – veesam 1/16 padi

Red Chillies – ¼ palam

Asafoetida – veesam 1/16 r.e

Fenugreek – ¼ palam

Salt – 1 palam

Turmeric Powder – 1/16 r.e

Chana Dal/Bengal Gram – veesam 1/16 padi

For seasoning:

Ghee – veesam 1/16 padi

Red Chillies – ¼ palam

Urad Dal – ½ palam

Mustard – ½ palam

Curry Leaves – ¼ r.e

Method:

1. Pound flattened rice to cracked rice consistency in a pounder. Soak it in water for some time. Fry red chillies, asafoetida and fenugreek in oil and powder it. Add powdered salt and turmeric powder to the lemon juice and mix it with the flattened rice.

2. Soak chana dal in water for some time and dry it in the shade. Fry this in little ghee and add it to the flattened rice. Refer to the seasoning recipe and use ghee, red chilli, urad dal, mustard, and curry leaves. Add the flattened rice to this seasoning and remove from
fire after 2 or 3 minutes to use. This dish can also be prepared without cracking the flattened rice in the pounder.

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