Arisi Upma

Ingredients Required:

• Raw Rice : 2 cups
• Thuvar dhal : 3 tbsp
• Jeera or Cumin seeds : 1 tsp
• Black pepper : 1tsp
• Coconut grated : 2 tbsp
• Green Chillies : 2
• Ginger grated : 1/4 inch
• Water: 3 cups
• Mustard seeds : 1 tsp
• Udad dhal : 1tsp
• Curry leaves : A few
• Asafoetida : Just a pinch
• Salt : Acc to taste
• Oil : 2tbsp
  

Cooking Method:

• Grind Rice, cumin seeds , pepper, thuvar dhal like rava consistency.
• Heat up oil in a nice heavy bottomed pan , add mustard seeds, udad dal, curry leaves , asafoetida and red chilly(1 if required)
• After this add 3 full cups of water to the pan.
• Bring the water to boil
• Add the ground mixture to this with continous stirring.
• Add salt to taste.
• Simmer the flame to medium.
• Close the pan with a nice lid.Dissolve the dry paste in the water.
• Open the lid and stir again. See if the rice rava has cooked well.
• Add grated coconut and a little coconut oil (1tsp)
• Remove from flame.
• Serve hot with sambar or chutney or Jaggery.
  

Puli (tamarind paste) Upma

Ingredients required:

• Rice Flour - 2 cups
• 4 red chillies
• 1 teaspoon mustard
• 1 tablespoon udad dhal
• Pinch of Asafoetida
• 2 green chillies if required
• Curry leaves
• Salt to taste Big
• Lemon sized measure of tamarind

Cooking Method:

Soak the tamarind in 2 cups of water and get out all the essense. Add the salt to this water. Add the 2 cups of rice flour and mix them into a nice paste.Add 5 tablespoons of oil in the fryingpan or kadai and fry the mustard seeds and Udad dhal. Add the green chillies and the red chillies and fry them all together. Add some curry leaves. Now add the paste prepared above and start stirring this in the pan , until the mixture is well cooked. Simmer the stove and let it cook for some more time , close the pan in order for the mixture to cook well. Serve hot in a nice plate. If necessary you can add a little coconut oil at the end to make it taste better.

Rava(Semolina) Upma

Ingredients required :

• Rava (Semolina) - cup
• 1 tsp Mustard Seeds
• 1 tsp Urad Daal
• 1 piece Ginger grated
• 1 chopped Onion
• 3 Green Chillies slit sideways
• Salt to taste
• 4-5 tablespoons Oil
• Curry leaves and Coriander leaves to garnish

Cooking Method:

• Roast the rava in a dry pan without the color changing, remove and cool.
• Peel and chop onion and ginger fine.
• Cut the green chillies.
• Boil water.
• Heat oil, fry the mustard seeds, urad dal and curry leaves.
• Add the green chillies , onion, ginger and fry for a few minutes.
• Pour 4 cups water and bring to boil.
• When the water starts boiling, add the rava in a flow.
• Stir continuously to avoid lumps of rava.
• Cook for a few more minutes stirring all the while.
• Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with chutney or sugar.

Note: Cashew nuts can be added if required. Fry them and add them to the upma and add some ghee for better taste if required.