Onion Rava Upma Recipe
Onion Rava Upma recipe or uppuma recipe is made from sooji/suji rava, cream of wheat or semolina. It is a popular,easy and quick cooking South Indian breakfast dish. Healthy Breakfast Recipe – Savory Semolina – Cream of wheat Recipe.
Equipment
- 1 Pan for roasting rava and making upma
Ingredients
How to make Upma with onion
Ingredients for onion upma
- 1 cup Rava/sooji/ semolina
- 2 cups water
- 1 Onion
- 2-3 green chilli, more according to taste.
- 7-8 curry leaves
- 3 tbsp oil
- ½ tsp Mustard seeds
- ½ tsp jeera - cumin seeds
- 1 tsp chana dal
- 1 tsp urad dal
- 1 tsp salt or to taste
- ½ tsp sugar
- 2 tbsp Fresh grated coconut
- coriander leaves, small bunch
- ¼ tsp Ginger finely chopped or paste
Instructions
Preparation before making upma:
- Roast rava on mediam flame for 4-5 minutes, till it is imparts aroma. The color will be changed too. Do not let it get brown. Keep aside.
- Chop onion, coriander leaves, ginger finely.
- Chop green chilies in big pieces.
Cooking upma – uppit Method
- Heat oil in a deep pan.
- Add mustard seeds. When they crackle, add chana dal, urad dal.fry till dal is light brown.
- Add chili pieces. Fry for 1 minute.
- Add chopped onion. Fry till onion is transparent. Add ginger.
- Add water. Bring to boil.
- Add salt, sugar.
- Reduce flame and add roasted rava stirring continuously. Mix well so as not to let form lumps.
- Cover and cook for 5 minutes on low flame. Stir in between.
- Add grated coconut, chopped coriander leaves. Mix well.
- Serve Hot.
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Notes
Tips:
- You may roast rava in large quantities when you have time and keep it for making rava upma when you are in hurry. Saves time.
- Roasting rava or semolina properly while stirring on low or medium flame is important.
- If rava is not roasted well, the uppuma will be sticky when ready.
- If rava is roasted too much and allowed to be browned, the color of uppittu will be dark. So be careful while roasting rava.
- You can also add 1 cup chopped, mixed vegetables – green peas, beans , carrots, potato, cabbage, cauliflower, capsicum etc.to make vegetable upma
Chop them fine and add them after the onions are fried. Or you may omit onions if you wish.