Mixed Vegetables broken Wheat Rava Upma

Ingredients:

Wheat Rava - 1 cup

Urad dal - 1 tsp

Mustard seeds - 1 tsp

Mixed Vegetables - 1 cup

Hing - 1/4 tsp

Curry leaves - few

Coriander leaves - few

Green Chillies -2-3

Salt - as required

Oil

Method:

Take a kadai and season with mustard seeds, urad dal, hing and curry leaves and onion with little oil.

When the mustard seeds splutter and the onion is stir fried and golden add the Wheat Rava and stir fry with the seasonings.

Now add mixed cut vegetables like carrot,beans, peas and you can add corn also and stir fry with the Wheat Rava.

Now add salt and pour 2 cups of hot water on the Wheat rava with vegetables and close the lid.

After sometime open the lid and pour 2-3 tsps of ghee on the cooked upma and mix nicely.

Now you can add cut coriander leaves and mix nicely.

Now the Wheat Rava upma is hot and ready to be served with any chutney or pickle of your choice

Semia (vermicilli) Upma

Ingredients:

Semia (vermicilli) - 1 packet

Big onion - 1

Tomato - 1

Mustard seeds - 1 tsp

Urad dal - 1 1/2 tsps

Curry leaves - few

Salt - as required

Oil for cooking

Cashew nuts -10 for garnishing

Coriander leaves - for garnishing

Lemon

Hing (asafoetida) - a pinch

Method:

Take a kadai and pour oil in it and put mustard seeds and urad dal and a pinch of hing.

When the seeds splutter, add small cut pieces of onion and curry leaves.

After the onion gets brown add the small cut pieces of tomato and stir.

Now add the semia (vermicilli) and stir fry with all the items for some time.

Now add water and cook the semia well (alternatively you can sprinkle water at small intervals and keep stirring the semia till it gets cooked). This will hardly take 10 minutes.

Now when the semia is cooked nicely remove from fire and fry cashew nuts in ghee and garnish the upma.

Then cut coriander leaves into small pieces and garnish the upma.

In the end squeeze 1 or 2 lemons as per your taste and mix nicely.

Now the semia (vermicilli) upma is ready and hot to be eaten.

You can have this upma with the pickle of your choice like lemon pickle, avakkai pickle or tomato

thokku etc.