Friday, February 13, 2009

Mixed Vegetable Uppma

This recipe is simple, tasty and nutritious. My Kids and my husband love this receipe. Unlike the regular uppma which we make seems to be boring in many houses. A touch of vegetables brings a lively taste to uppmas. Here the recipe follows

Ingredients:
(Serves : 4)
Rawa : 1cup
Onion : 1 No. Chopped
Carrot : 1 No. Chopped
Beans : 10 Nos. Chopped
Potato :1 No. Chopped
Cabbage: 1/2 cup Chopped
Broad Beans : 1/2 cup Chopped
Cauliflower : 1/2 cup Chopped
Water : 3 1/2 cups
Salt to taste

For tempering:
Oil : 1/4 Cup
Mustard Seeds : 1tspn.
Red Chillies : 2 broken
Gram dal : 1 tspn
Urad dal :1 tspn
Curry leaves : 1 or 2 Sprigs
Ginger Chopped : 1 tspn

Preparation:
1. Take a broad kadai. Heat a tablespoon of oil and fry the rawa till raw smell goes or till light brown in colour (If you use roasted one, no need to roast the rawa, you can use it directly) remove from fire and keep it aside in a vessel.
2. Heat the rest of the oil in the same kadai, now add in the ingredients for tempering one by one. Fry till the dals changes to golden brown in colour.
3. Now add in chopped onions and fry till soft. Then add in the mixed vegetables one by one. Add in little salt for the vegetable alone and close it with a lid. Open and Stir it once in a while till the vegtable are cooked and stays crispy still.
4. Now add in measured water and salt(approximately 11/2 tsp.) let it boil.
5. When it start Boiling add in the rawa slowly taking care no lumps are formed. Keep stirring till the rawa get cooked completly. Garnish with coriander leaves. Serve hot with coconut chutney / sambar/ tomato thokku or as it is.