Semiya Upma

Semiya upma

This is a very easy to cook breakfast dish that comes handy when I run out of idli dosa batter and chappathi flour. This can be done in 15 mins time.

Ingredients

• Semiya - 1 cup
• Carrot chopped - 1/8 cup
• Beans chopped - 1/8 cup
• Onion - 1 small sized or 1/8 cup of chopped
• Ginger - a small 
• Garlic - 2 clove
• Cashews - few
• Curry leaves - few
• Corainder leaves - few
• Red chilli - 1
• Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
• Oil - 1 tsp
• Ghee - 1 tsp
• Salt - 1/4 tsp
• Water - 2 cups

Cooking steps

1. In a hot pan, Add oil and mustard seeds and curry leaves and let it sputter.
2. Add cashews and fry it for few seconds
3. Add chopped onion, carrot and beans and add salt.
4. Add little water ( say 1/4 cup) and boil vegetables.
5. Add remaining 1 and 3/4 cup water and boil till the water starts rolling.
6. Add the semiya at this stage and give a quick stir and keep the lid closed for 5 mins.
7. Open the lid and let the semiya absorb the water and cook fully.
8. Add a tsp of ghee and garnish with coriander.

My 2 cents

• Choice of vegetables are purely optional. I just like red, green and white combination. So I decided to takeup carrot and beans. You can add corn and cauliflower also.