Breakfast Magic: Upma

If you want to prepare a simple, healthy, tasty breakfast in 15 mins, go for Upma. It is a South Indian breakfast but popular across the country. It is probably the Indian version of the North African dish: Couscous

The below recipe will serve for 2.

Ingredients:

• Rawa/ Sooji/ Semolina - 1 cup
• Carrot - 1
• Onion - 1
• Pepper seeds (not pepper powder)
• Chopped Green chilies - 2
• Ginger - peeled and mashed
• Currey leaves
• Ghee - 4 spn
• Salt - to taste

Preparation:

• Take a big frying pan/ vessel and heat it in medium flame.

• Add the rawa/sooji/semolina into the vessel and roast for 3 mins till it turns very light brown.
• Be careful not to burn it. 
• Keep aside the roasted rawa.
• Pour ghee to the frying vessel and now add green chilies, pepper, curry leaves and mashed ginger.
• Saute for 2 mins in medium flame.
• Now add the chopped onions and carrot and saute for 3 mins.
• Onions will turn golden brown by now.
• Add exactly 2 cups of water and increase to high flame. Rawa:Water ratio should be 1:2.
• Water will boil in 2 mins.
• Add salt and stir well.
• Add the roasted rawa/ sooji to the water and stir thoroughly to avoid bubbling.
• In 2 mins the rawa will become soft.
• Now bring stove to low flame and close the vessel with a lid and keep for 5 mins.
• Keep checking to make sure that it is not getting burnt.

Breakfast is ready! You can have upma with sugar. I prefer to have it with sugar and a banana. Try this one and you are surely gonna like it. This is the best breakfast if you are in a hurry or if your tummy wants only light stuff.