Friday, August 23, 2013

Cheera Upuma

For Upuma

Ingredients needed

FriedRava  - 1 cup
Onion - 1
Green chilli -1
Ginger - 1 inch piece finely chopped
Water - 2 cups
Ghee - 3/4 tsp (optional - added for flavor)
Salt needed

For the seasoning

Oil - 3 tsp
Mustard seeds -1
Curry leaves - few

For Cheera

Cheera – 1cup
Grated Coconut -1/2Cup
Shallots -3
Garlic -3
Dry chilly-3
Onion finely chopped -1/2
Salt –as reqd
Oil 2 tbsp

             Grind  coconut ,garlic ,dry chilly and shallots.Add salt to the chopped cheera and mix well .cook it on a low flame for few mins .add the grinded mixture  to it and cook well .Heat oil in apan  and sauté onion  ,and curry leaves .Mix it to the cooked cheera .and cook for 2 mins .


Now The Upuma

                       Chop onions, ginger and green chillies finely.Heat 3 tsp of oil, add mustard seeds, when it splutters add curry leaves, chopped onions, green chillies and ginger.Saute until onions turn transparent. Then add 2 cups of water, ghee and salt needed. When the water starts boiling, reduce the flame to low, add the cheera mix and cook for a minute  .Then add rava gradually with one hand and keep stirring with your other hand. Once the rava absorbs all the water, cover and cook on low flame for 6-7 minutes. Do not forget to stir in between.


Tasty Cheera upuma is ready .