Recipe of Upma - How to Make Upma at Home

Rava Upma Recipe or Suji Upma Recipe can be prepared with only plain Semolina, or vegetables like Carrots, Green Peas, Cauliflower, Potatoes, etc can also be added. Here it would be prudent to mention that Upma can be of many different varieties & as we have earlier said - Rava Upma Recipe, which is also known as Suji Upma Recipe, is the most common method of preparation used. However, Upma can also be prepared by using oats, noodles, bread, Dalia, or flattened rice.

Here we would be describing an easy Recipe of Upma for all those who want to know how to make Upma at home. As Suji Upma Recipe is the most common recipe of Upma prepared in Indian homes, so we would be describing - how to make Upma from Suji, using the simplest of ingredients and in very little time.

Recipe for Upma

Ingredients Needed for Suji Upma Recipe

1) Suji (Semolina/ Rava) – 1 cup

2) Onion – 1 of medium size (cut into small pieces)

3) Split Brown Chickpeas (Chana dal) – 1 teaspoon

4) Split & DE husked Black Gram Lentils (Urad dal) – 1 teaspoon

5) Cumin seeds – 1/4^th teaspoon

6) Mustard seeds – ½ teaspoon

7) Fenugreek seeds (Methi seeds) – A small pinch

8) Dry Red Chilli (Whole) – 1 in number

9) White Oil – 2 tablespoons

10) Ghee (Solid) – 1 teaspoon

11) Ginger – ½ inch long (very finely chopped or grated roughly)

12) Green Chilli – 1 (cut into small pieces)

13) Asafoetida (Hing) – 1/8^th teaspoon

14) Sugar – 1 teaspoon

15) Salt – ½ teaspoon or as per taste

16) Water for cooking – 3 cups

17) Curry leaves – 6 to 7 in number, cut into small pieces

18) Roasted peanuts – 30 grams (approximately)

19) Coriander leaves (Optional) – 2 tablespoons (finely chopped)

How to Make Upma with Suji

• Put a Karahi/Deep vessel pan on a low flame burner. Add 1 cup Suji in it and stir constantly. When it becomes dry and light (but the color should not change) then switch off the burner and take out the Suji from Karahi/Deep vessel pan and keep it on a plate and allow it to cool.
• Now put the Karahi/Deep vessel pan back on the low medium flame burner and add 2 tablespoons oil in it and allow it to get hot. When it becomes hot then add the previously mentioned amount of Chana Dal & Urad Dal into the oil and fry them till it becomes brown. Then add Mustard seeds, Cumin seeds & Fenugreek seeds; one by one (previously mentioned in the ingredients list) into the oil and stir them constantly.
• After 1 to 2 minutes, a nice aroma of the fried components will start to come out. Next at once add Curry leaves, Dry whole Chilli, Onion pieces & Hing to the previous mixture. Sauté constantly till the Onion pieces become glossy. After this add very finely chopped or grated Ginger & pieces of Green Chilli to the preparation. Just stir for only 1 minute.

• Later add water along with the previously mentioned roasted peanut to the mixture. Let the mixture boil. Add salt and sugar into it.
• Later add solid Ghee to the mixture and stir it, so that Ghee will melt with the previously mentioned mixture. Next, hold the plate containing previously fried Suji in the left hand, and allow it to drop very slowly in the boiling water mixture. A small tip to remember here is that the ratio of Suji & water used ideally should be 1:3.
•  Hold a spatula in the right hand. Mix the Suji with the water mixture by stirring the mixture by spatula very fast, so that no lump will form and Suji mixes with water evenly and forms a smooth uniform mixture.

• Next add chopped Coriander leaves (if desired), with the Suji mixture, and mix everything evenly. Then switch off the burner and cover the Kadai or Deep vessel pan by a lid and wait for at least 5 to 10 minutes.

• Now pour the prepared Upma into a bowl and press it a bit from the upper surface and then invert this bowl into a serving plate. Take out the bowl slowly in the upward direction, so that Upma will easily come out of the bowl into the serving plate, taking the shape of the inverted bowl. This brings us to the end of the Recipe of Upma.
• The Upma is now ready for serving to your friends, family or guests. Serve hot with coconut chutney or peanut chutney.

• We hope that all those who wanted to know how to make Upma Recipe have got a satisfactory answer to their question. Try the Recipe for Upma described above at your home, we are sure that you would not be disappointed.

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