BROKEN WHEAT UPMA/GODHUMA RAWA UPMA

An easy breakfast or dinner recipe.Most common in Tamil nadu.Various seasonings and vegetables can be added according to one’s taste.This is a very healthy recipe.

Ingredients

• Broken wheat….1cup
• Mustard ……….. 1/2 tsp
• Urad……… 1 tsp
• Onion…………….1
• Green chillies….2 or 3
• Ginger……….1 ” piece
• Curry leaves…1 sprig
• Oil…1 tbs
• Salt to taste
• Carrot,peas……chopped vegetables 1/2 cup

Method

1. Chop onion,green chillies and vegetables.
2. Splutter mustard in hot oil and add urad dhal then add onion green chillies and curry leaves and saute till golden brown.Add grated ginger.
3. Add the required amount of water and salt and allow it to boil.
4. If the vegetables are not boiled now add it to boil.
5. When the water begins to boil slowly put the rawa stirring continuously till it gets cooked.
6. If you are going to add boiled vegetables add after adding rawa and mix well.

Serve with chutney or sugar.

Water double the quantity of rawa.If you have to cook vegetables add 1/2 cup water more.

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RICE PAYASAM

One of the traditional recipes made with rice and jaggery. Easy to prepare also a neivedyam especially when we offer Pongal for Sun god. I have used raw rice for this but can use even boiled rice.

Ingredients

• Rice …..1 cup
• Jaggery…1 to 11/2 cup
• Ghee….3 tbs
• Cardomom powder…1tsp
• Milk 3/4 litre.
• Cashews and kismis…1 tsp

Can cook rice separately too.

Method

1. Powder jaggery put it in a thick bottom pan and mix well with little water.

2.Filter the syrup to remove the dirt from the syrup.

3.After removing the dirt keep again for some more time so that it becomes more syrupy that is more thicker.

4.Add cooked rice to the the syrup and cook till it blends.

5.When it blends well add milk to it.

6.Finally add fried cashews and kismis.