Cornmeal upma | Broken Maize Upma | Simple corn rava upma

Cuisine Style: Tamil Nadu, South India | Cooking Time: 10 min | To Serve: 3 | Type :Breakfast, dinner | Take with :Chips, pickles, chutney

Ingredients

• Cornmeal [Broken maize, Corn rava ] – 1 cup
• Onion – 1 [sliced]
• Coconut – 3 tbsp [grated]
• Curd – 2 tbsp [fully whisked]
• Tomato – 1 [finely chopped]
• Ginger – 1 tbsp [finely chopped]
• Green chilli – 1 [slit]
• Curry leaves – 1 spring
• Coriander leaves – 3 springs [chopped]
• Mustard seeds – 1 tbsp
• Bengal gram – 1 tbsp
• Urad dal – 1 tbsp
• Salt to taste
• Oil – 2 tbsp
• Water – 2 ½ cups

Preparation

• Heat pan then add cornmeal & sprinkle ½ tbsp of oil then roast.
• Heat oil in a pressure cooker then add mustard seeds & let it splutter. Then add Bengal gram and urad dal.
• Add onion sauté till soft then add ginger sauté. Then add green chilli, curry leaves & tomato saute till soft.
• Add water & salt mix well. Then add coconut & curd mix well & let it boil. Then add roasted rava mix well & cover it, cook for 4 whistles.
• Then cut off heat, sprinkle coriander leaves & serve hot with chutney or pickles.