Basic Upma. Basic Upma

You can cook Basic Upma using 15 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Basic Upma
  1. You need of chopped ginger.
  2. It’s of rava.
  3. It’s of medium sized onion.
  4. You need of green chilli chopped.
  5. You need of ghee.
  6. You need of oil.
  7. It’s of mustard seeds.
  8. It’s of urad daal.
  9. You need of chana daal.
  10. Prepare of curry leaves.
  11. It’s of cashew nuts.
  12. Prepare of peanuts.
  13. It’s of cup water.
  14. It’s of sugar.
  15. You need of salt.
Basic Upma instructions
  1. Turn on the flame. Add ghee & then rava. Roast it in low flame. Keep stirring it for 5-6min. Don't let it turn brown. Don't cook it for more than 5-6min..

  2. Keep the roasted rava in a plate aside. Then heat oil in the same wok..

  3. Add mustard seeds,urad & chana daal..

  4. When the daal turns a little brown in colour, add ginger & green chilli. Saute it for 5sec..

  5. Add curry leaves & onion. Saute it for 10sec..

  6. Add cashew nuts & peanuts..

  7. Then add water. Let it boil till you get the aroma of nuts,chillies & ginger..

  8. Slowly, add the rava and keep stirring it while adding it to the wok. Or else, it will get lumps & the whole recipe is spoiled. So, keep stirring the rava while adding it slowly to the water mixture..

  9. In low flame, let it cook. Cover it with a lid. It's ready within a min..

  10. Serve it hot with pickle or chutney..