Broken red rice upma | Kerala matta rice upma | Broken Matta Rice Upma

Cuisine Style: South India | Cooking Time: 10 minutes | To Serve: 4 | Type: Breakfast, dinner | Take With: Chips, pickles, chutney

Ingredients

• Broken red rice [Kerala matta rice] – 1 cup
• Onion – 1 [sliced or chopped]
• Carrot – ½ cup [cut into cubes]
• Potato – ½ cup [cut into small cubes]
• Tomato – 1 [finely chopped]
• Coconut – ¼ cup [Thinly sliced & chopped]
• Green chilli – 1 [slit or chopped]
• Ginger – 1 tbsp [finely chopped]
• Coriander leaves – 2 springs [chopped]
• Curry leaves – 1 spring
• Mustard seeds – 1 tbsp
• Bengal gram – 1 tbsp
• Urad dal – 1 tbsp
• Oil – 2 tbsp
• Salt to taste
• Water as needed [Apr. 2 ½ cups]

Method

• Wash & soak broken red rice for ½ an hour. Then drain water. [optional]
• Heat pressure cooker then add oil. Put mustard seeds& let it splutter. Then add Bengal gram, urad dal sauté gently then add onion sauté well then add ginger, green chilli, curry leaves.
• Add carrot, potatoes and coconut sauté well. Then add tomato sauté.
• Add water and salt and mix well. Once water start boiling add broken red rice mix & well then cover it and cook for 5 to 6 whistle.
• Then add coriander leaves mix well and serve hot with coconut chutney, pickle or chips.

Tip

• You can add roasted or fried nuts, beans, green peas etc.