Very scrumptious and tasty upma with broken raw rice along with Indian spices. It's a traditional breakfast dish. This can be served with Coconut Chutney / Vendhaya Kuzhambu.
Very scrumptious and tasty upma with broken raw rice along with Indian spices. It's a traditional breakfast dish. This can be served with Coconut Chutney / Vendhaya Kuzhambu.
Ingredients:
- 1 Cup Raw Rice
- 2.5 Cups Water
- 1 tsp Salt
- ¼ Cup Grated Coconut optional
For Tempering:
- 1 tbsp Oil
- 1 tsp Mustard seeds
- 1 tsp Split Urad Dal
- 1 tsp Split Bengal Gram (Channa Dal / Kadalaparuppu)
- 2 nos Red Chili broken
- ¼ tsp Asafoetida (Asafetida / Hing)
- 1 sprig Curry Leaves
Instructions:
- Wash the raw rice (preferably Pacharisi) in water. Strain the water and spread the rice in the towel. Let the rice dry completely. Once the rice is dried, grind the rice in the mixer and grind it like sooji (rawa) and keep it aside. Make sure that the rice is not ground completely like rice flour.
- Heat the oil in the pan. When the oil is hot, add the mustard seeds. Once the mustard seeds starts to sputter add the urdhal, channa dhal, broken red chilis and curry leaves. Fry the above mixture till dhal turn into golden brown color. Finally add hing and switch off the flame .
- Take the broken rice in a vessel. Add 2.5 cups of water along with salt. Add Seasoning to the water and stir well
- Finally add grated coconut and stir well. Keep the vessel inside the pressure cooker and pressure cook allowing for 3 whistles
- Allow the pressure to release fully. Then open the cooker and stir the cooked upma well
- Spread the cooked upma in plate and allow it to cool. Once it's warm, make a small dumplings out of it and place it in a Idly plate and steam cook it for five minutes.
- Serve Upma Kozhukattai with coconut chutney / Vendhya kuzhambu
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