Vegetable Masala Upma | Masala Upma recipe
Vegetable Masala Upma | Masala Upma recipe makes a hearty, wholesome and delicious breakfast to keep you energized throughout the day. It is a gratifying breakfast or snack in which roasted semolina is incorporated with sauteed vegetables, herbs and aromatics to create a colorful and nutritious dish packed with flavors.
Equipment
- Kadai or pan
- spatula
Ingredients
1 cup = 250 ml
To Roast Semolina
- ½ cup semolina
- 1 tbsp ghee
To Roast Cashew nuts
- 7-8 cashew nuts
- 1 tsp ghee
Veggies and other ingredients
- 2 tbsp oil
- ½ tsp mustard seeds
- ½ tsp cumin seeds
- 1 tsp chana dal
- 1 tsp urad dal
- 1-2 dried red chili
- 1 sprig curry leaves
- ½ cup onion; chopped 50gm
- 2 green chilies
- 1/8 cup carrot' chopped 25 gm
- 1/8 cup capsicum; chopped 25 gm
- 1/8 cup fresh green peas 20 gm
- 2 tbsp tomato puree
- 1 tsp salt
- ½ tsp sambhar masala powder / pav bhaji masala powder/ vangi bath powder
- 1/8 cup tomatoes; chopped 20 gm
- 3.5 cup water
- ½ tbsp ghee
Instructions
Roasting
- Firstly, add ghee in a pan or kadai and roast semolina.
- Roast semolina on low heat for 3-5 minutes till the rawness goes away. Semolina must not change its color.
- In the same pan or another pan, lightly roast cashew nuts in ghee.
How to make Upma
- Heat oil in a kadai.
- Thereafter, add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, urad dal and chana dal. Lightly sauté the dal.
- Then add dried red chilies and curry leaves.
- Furthermore, add onions and sauté for a while and add green chilies. Then add carrots, bell peppers and fresh peas and sauté.
- Add tomato puree and sauté till the rawness is over. Now add salt and sambhar masala powder.
- Thereafter and tomatoes and sauté.
- Then add coriander leaves and water and cashew nuts.
- Let water come to a boil.
- Keeping heat on low, add roasted semolina stirring continuously.
- Top with a small dollop of ghee.
- Cover with lid and let the upma cook. After 5-7 minutes, put off flame.
- Serve hot Vegetable Masala Upma
What to serve with
- Serve Vegetable Masala Upma for breakfast or as wholesome filling snacking option with coconut chutney, tomato peanut chutney or coriander mint chutney and a cup of freshly brewed Coffee, Kadak Chai or Cardamom Caffe Latte. In summers you can enjoy it with a glass of buttermilk such as Mint Lassi.
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Notes
- Use just the required amount of water. Suji water ratio could be 1: 3 or 4, depending on semolina variety.
- Roasting semolina or rava is mandatory. It enhances texture and taste.
- While incorporating semolina, it should be a continuous drizzle into the simmering water.
- Always roast semolina before making upma.
- When you add the water for making upma, it should taste a bit salty. Semolina swells in water and absorbs the salt. By then, the salty taste diminishes.