Quick Semolina Indian Breakfast Recipe - Upma

Hello everyone,

For all the people who are having a tough time juggling with their job or class and their health, we have planned to start a new series sharing quick stomach filling breakfast recipes. Breakfast is one of the most skipped meals in our generation. We often blame it our tough schedule and we forget that it is only our health that struggles to keep up a standard.

Upma is a very popular South Indian Breakfast dish (also had a snack at times) which is made using fine Semolina or Rava. Semolina can be easily found in an Indian supermarket in the section of flours.

Here is the recipe of this popular 10 Min Breakfast Recipe.

Ingredients
Semolina- 1/2 cup
Water - as needed
Salt - to taste
Green chillies - 1 small finely chopped
Onion - 1 small finely chopped
Curry leaves- 1 Sprig
Mustard Seeds - 1/2 tsp
Ghee/Butter/Oil- 2 tsp

Preparation Method
Step 1: Take a heavy-bottomed pan and keep it on the stove. Pour some oil or ghee or both and let it heat well. Add the mustard seeds and let it splutter. Now add the chopped veggies and saute it well until the onions are translucent.

Step 2: Add the Semolina/Rava and mix well. Add some water (roughly double amount of Semolina) and add enough salt. Mix well.

Step 3: Cover the pan and stir once in a while. The upma is ready when the Semolina is all cooked into a mass and there is no more water left in the pan.

Garnish with curry leaves (optional) and serve.

Notes:

1) For more calories, always use ghee for cooking upma.

2) You will need more or less double the quantity of water with that of Semolina.

3) The water should be salty when you are tasting the soup as soon as you pour water in the pan. Otherwise, the upma won't have enough salt in it and you won't be able to add it later.

4) You may also use veggies like carrots into up and thus make it more colourful and delicious. Simply add some finely chopped carrots (to make the cooking process easier).


Upma is a very filling breakfast and if you are going to like the taste of it, there is no looking back. The ultimate taste of this dish is the ghee added and the softness attached with it. The Semolina has to be cooked really well and it will be just as soft as cotton when it is all cooked.