Sooji or Rava or semolina is used to make this breakfast dish. Semolina is a refined food made from whole wheat grain. It is popularly called Upma or rava upma or sooji upma. It can be made in many different ways. This is the recipe of upma with walnuts.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup Semolina or sooji
- 1 ½ tsp oil or ghee
- 1 tsp mustard seeds
- 1 tsp Chana dal
- 1 tsp Urad dal
- 1 tsp Cumin seeds
- ¼ tsp Hing (optional)
- ¼ cup walnuts
- ½ cup chopped cilantro
- 5-6 curry leaves
- 3-4 dried red chili
- 1 tsp lemon juice (optional)
- 1 tsp grated ginger
- 1 tsp turmeric powder (optional)
- Salt to taste
Method:
- Take a pot, add semolina, 1 tsp oil. Mix it and roast it on medium flame until semolina changes the color
- Transfer it to a bowl. Unroasted semolina makes upma sticky.
- In the same pot, add oil or ghee and heat it
- Add mustard seeds, cumin seeds and let them crackle
- Add urad dal, chana dal, hing, curry leaves, dried red chili and fry them
- Add walnut pieces, turmeric powder, salt and ginger paste. Fry them
- Simultaneously, boil 3.5 cups water in another pot
- Add roasted sooji to the mixture of walnut-chili-curry leaves
- Mix well
- Add boiled water slowly and keep stirring to prevent lumps
- Add cilantro and adjust the salt
- You can add lemon juice to the mixture if you are planning to use
- Turn the flame to low and cover the pot
- Allow the mixture to cook well. Semolina absorbs water. Some people add additional ghee at this point, but it is optional.
- Turn off the flame and serve hot with Indian pickle, plain yogurt and/or coconut chutney.
Variation: The same upma can be done by using peanuts in place of walnuts and green chili in place of dried red chilies.
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