Simple poha upma | Aval Upma Recipe | Flattened rice upma with plain sev sprinkles

Cuisine Style: South India | Cooking Time: 5 minutes | To Serve: 4 | Type: Breakfast | Take With: Chips, pickles, chutney

Ingredients

• Poha[Pohe, Avul, Flattened rice, Aval] – 1 cup
• Onion – 1 [sliced or chopped]
• Ginger – 1 tbsp [finely chopped]
• Green chilli – 1 [slit]
• Curry leaves – 1 spring
• Coriander leaves – 2 springs [chopped]
• Mustard seeds – 1 tbsp
• Bengal gram – 1 tbsp
• Urad dal – 1 tbsp
• Sev [Plain Sev, omapodi] – 3 tbsp [for garnish]
• Salt to taste
• Oil – 2 tbsp

Method

• Wash smooth Aval and drain water. Don’t soak aval.
• Heat oil in a pan then add mustard seed & let it splutter. Add Bengal gram & urad dal.
• Then add onion sauté well then add ginger, green chilli & curry leaves.
• Add aval and salt then mix well. Then add chopped coriander leaves.
• Cut off heat, sprinkle sev & serve hot with pickle, chips, coconut chutney.