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Showing posts with label Upma. Show all posts

Mor kali (More kali)

Ingredients


Rice flour - 100 grams
Sour Curd (Pulippu thayir) - 100 grams
Mustard (kadugu) - 1 teaspoon
Bengal gram (kadalai paruppu) - 1 teaspoon
Urid dhal (Ulutham paruppu) - 1 teaspoon
Asafoetida powder (perungaayam podi) - 1/2 (Half) teaspoon
Mor milagaai - 3
Salt - 3/4 (Three-Fourths of a teaspoon)
Gingely oil (Nallennai) - 4 tablespoon
Sunflower oil - 2 tablespoon
Curry leaves (karuveppilai)

The above ingredients can be used to serve 2 people.  You can increase or decrease the proportions as per number of people.

Preparation


  1. Blend sour curd with 1/2 (half) tumbler of water. (If needed add more water. The mix must not be thick and must be like butter milk.)
  2. Take a vessel and mix rice flour, blended curd, asafoetida powder & salt and mix thoroughly
  3. Place a pan/kadaai on a stove in medium flame
  4. Add 2 teaspoon of gingely oil and add mustard
  5. Allow mustard to burst
  6. Chop the add mor milagaai and saute for few seconds
  7. Add bengal gram, urid dhal and saute till they turn brownish red
  8. Add curry leaves and saute for few seconds
  9. Turn stove to low flame
  10. Add the rice flour mix to the pan
  11. Thoroughly mix and stir
  12. Once in 2 minutes, add oil and stir the mix. Do this till the remaining oil is added.
  13. Mor kali is ready when the mix do not stick to the stirring laddle (karandi). (Might take 10 to 15 minutes)
Note

1) If Sour curd is not available, you can use tamarind water instead of curd. Take small gooseberry sized tamarind and prepare a tumbler of tamarind water. You can use this instead of curd.

2) Instead of mor milagaai, you can also use red chilly.

Rava upma

Ingredients


Rava - 1 tumbler (200 gm)
Green chilly - 2
Ginger
Bengal gram (kadalai paruppu) - 1 tablespoon
Urid dhall (ulutham paruppu) - 1 tablespoon
Mustard (kadugu) - 1 teaspoon
Asafoetida
Curry leaves
Coriander
Gingely oil (nallennai) - 3 tablespoon
Ghee - 1 teaspoon
Salt - 3/4 (three fourths) tablespoon
Cashew nuts


Preparation



  1. Lightly roast rava with ghee in a pan till raw smell goes away. Might take 5 minutes
  2. Chop green chilly, ginger, coriander and keep ready
  3. Heat 3 tablespoon of oil in a kadai (pan)
  4. Add mustard and allow it to burst
  5. Add bengal gram, urid dhall and  cashew nuts and heat till they turn red
  6. Add ginger, coriander, chilly, curry leaves and mix
  7. Add 2 tumblers of water
  8. Add salt and mix
  9. Wait till the water boils
  10. Add the roasted rava and mix thoroughly
  11. Close the pan with a lid and heat for 5 minutes











Arisi Upma (Rice Upma)

Ingredients


Raw rice - 1 cup
Thoor dhal (Thuvaram Paruppu) - 1 cup
Pepper (Milagu) - 1 teaspoon
Jeera (Jeeragam) - 1 teaspoon
Urid dhall (Ulutham Paruppu) - 1 tablespoon
Begal gram (Kadalai Paruppu) - 1 tablespoon
Mustard (Kadugu) - 1 teaspoon
Red chilly - 5
Salt - 3/4 tablespoon (Three Fourths of a tablespoon)
Water - 4 cups
Sunflower oil - 3 tablespoon
Gingely oil (Nallennai) - 3 tablespoon
Coconut oil - 2 tablespoon

Curry leaves (karuveppilai)

Quantity of water


Quantity of water must be twice the amount of Rice + Thoor Dhal

For the above ingredients, water quantity is calculated as follows :

2 x (1 cup rice + 1 cup thoor dhal) = 4 Cups of Water

Use the same cup that you use for taking rice & thoor dhal


Preparation

  1. Grind thoor dhal, pepper and jeera for 1 min and prepare a coarsely grind powder
  2. Add rice to the above mixture and grind coarsely (Consistency of the powder must be like big rava)
  3. Keep a vengalam paanai (bronze vessel) or a heavy pan or a pressure cooker on the stove
  4. Add sunflower, coconut & gingely oil and heat
  5. Add mustard and allow it to burst
  6. Then add red chilly, urid dhal, bengal gram and asafoetida and roast till golden brown
  7. Add curry leaves and mix
  8. Add 4 cups of water and allow it to boil
  9. Add salt
  10. After the water boils, turn to low flame and add the powdered rice mixture and mix it thoroughly
  11. Close the pan or the vengalam paanai with the lid
  12. Stir the upma once in 3 mins till the upma gets cooked
  13. If using a pressure cooker, wait for 1 whistle
  14. If you are using vengalam paanai, transfer the upma content to a different container within half an hour
Side dishes

The following are excellent side dishes for Arisi Upma :