Vegetable Upma

Vegetable Upma is the simplest breakfast recipe I have ever heard of.There are many people who I know have an aversion to it. But believe me, if you make it with the right consistency and taste, there is no other healthier breakfast dish which you would love, than this.

Ingredients:

1 cup Rava/sooji
Onion-1
Tomato-1
Potato-1
Carrot-1
Green chillies-4
Chana dal-1 tspn
Coriander leaves-For garnishing
Curry leaves
Oil-2 tspns
Mustard
Water
Salt

Procedure:

Cut all the vegetables finely.
Dry roast rava in a kadai for about 4 minutes on medium flame. It should not get burnt. You may take a pinch of rava and check if its hot.That is the time to switch off the flame.
Transfer this roasted rava onto a plate.
Heat oil in the kadai. Add mustard to it.Once it splutters, add chana dal, green chillies(finely chopped) and curry leaves and fry a little.Add onion and fry till its transparent.Now add tomato, potato and carrot and fry for 2 minutes.Now add water.(For 1 cup of rava, add 2 cups of water).Add salt.
Once it starts boiling, turn the flame to low and slowly add the roasted rava/sooji to this water, continuously stirring it.
Keep stirring for a minute or so till the water is absorbed and the upma becomes a single layer without sticking to the sides of the pan.

Now switch off the flame and garnish with coriander leaves. Serve hot and healthy upma with any chutney or sambar.I bet you, it even tastes good with sugar.

Mullu thenkuzhal/Mullu murukku

Sweets go hand in hand with kaaram....As the famous cliche goes,"Sweet, Kaaram and coffee"

Recipe for mullu thenkuzhal is as follows.

Ingredients:

Rice flour- 1 
Moong dal- 1/4 cup
Chana dal- 3 tspns
Ghee-1 tspn
Salt
Asafoetida-2 tspns
Water-
Oil


Dry fry moong dal and chana dal together in a kadai till the aroma spreads out.
Once it cools down, grind them into a fine powder.Mix this powder with rice flour,asafoetida, ghee,salt and water and knead it into a soft dough.

Heat oil in a kadai for frying. Grease the murukku achu with oil and put one small lump of the batter in it.Check if the oil is hot by placing a small piece of dough in it.If it rises up immediately to the top, it is ready to be fried in.

Squeeze the achu over the oil swirling it into circles to get the desired shape of the murukku.

Once the murukku tuens golden brown, you can remove it from the kadai.

Note:The achu generally comes with different plates at the bottom.These can be used for different types of murukku.

7 cups sweet recipe

Diwali is over and the hangover, too...Time to upload the recipes of the sweets and snacks I made this year for the festival of lights.

The recipe below is for a simple sweet, called 7 cups.


Ingredients:

Besan/gramflour/kadala maavu- 1 cup
Milk- 1 cup
Ghee- 1 cup
Grated coconut- 1 cup
Sugar- 3 cups
Almonds,cashewnuts-optional

Take a wide-bottomed vessel. Add all the above ingredients and mix well.Switch on the stove on medium flame and allow it to cook stirring often so that the ingredients do not get burnt.

Once it becomes a little thick, keep the flame on low and keep stirring till the ghee starts oozing out.
Transfer the cooked mixture onto a greased plate and mark using your knife as if you are cutting into pieces.You may now place the almonds and cashewnuts in this mixture as per your wish.

Once it gets cooled,you will be able to remove the sweet pieces.