Veggies Oats Upma--guest post

Hello all! Today I  have a guest post from a very good friend Hema. She  has a lovely blog  at
Hema's Adugemane.  Read on in her own words about her post.

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My friend, Meena Bhatia has asked me to guest post on Oats Upma sometime long back. I had brought Oats and I had stuffed my refrigerator with carrot, capsicum, and my kitchen rack had onion, tomato, potato. It immediately flashed me to go with this recipe. As Oats is new in our family for my hubby I prepared Vermicelli Upma and I went on with this.

Might be we all would be aware that Oats is very rich in fiber and it helps in reducing cholesterol. Upma is a South Indian Breakfast which is very easy to make and people say this is “lazy person’s easy breakfast”. All the varieties of upma might be same Vegetables or Onion + Tomato + Suji/Vermicelli/Oats. So, here is my version of Veggies Oats Upma.

Ingredients:

·         Oats – ½ cup

·         Water – 1 cup

·         Potato – 2

·         Capsicum – 1

·         Carrot – 1

·         Onion (big) – 1

·         Tomato – 1

·         Green Peas – few

·         Green chillies – few

·         Crystal Salt – 2 tsp

For Seasoning:

·         Urad Dhal – 1 tsp

·         Channa Dhal – 1 tsp

·         Groundnut seeds – 1 tbsp

·         Mustard Seeds – 1 tsp

·         Cashewnuts – few

·         Curry leaves – few

For Garnishing:

·         Cilantro- few

Method:

·         Heat oil in a wok/kadai.

·         Roast cashewnuts and keep it aside.

·         Cut potato, capsicum, carrot and keep it in cooker along with green peas for 3 whistles.

·     In the same oil, add mustard seeds once it splutters, add curry leaves followed by dhals and groundnut seeds.

·         Then add chopped onion (into thin slices) and fry them till they become translucent.

·         Add green chillies and fry them well.

·         Then add chopped tomato and cooked vegetables.

·         Mix them all well and pour water now add crystal salt.

·         Blend the oats just for one round in a blender.

·         Once the water starts boiling add oats slowly by stirring.

·         Leave it for 2 to 3 minutes in medium flame.

·         Garnish cilantro and roasted cashewnuts.

·         Serve it with chutney.

         ***************************************************************          Thank you  Hema for wonderful Oats upma and hope all of you like this. 
                 
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INSTANT BREAD UPMA

Hello! Today I would show you one very simple easy to cook dish. It’s a breakfast item and it cooks in jiffy.

INGREDIENTS:

3-4 bread slices ( you can use old ones if it has not gone bad or you can use fresh ones too)

1         onion finely chopped

2          tomatoes finely chopped

¼ tsp   mustard seeds

Few leaves of curry patta

1tbsp oil

1 green chilli cut in small pieces

Salt to taste

¼ tsp turmeric powder

¼ tsp  coriander powder

¼ tsp red chilli powder

For garnishing  some cut coriander leaves

METHOD:

In a  pan  put oil, let it heat then add mustard seeds and curry patta and green chilli.  Stir for a min till mustard seeds splutter.  Put  chopped onion pieces and let them turn bit pink. Then  put cut tomato pieces and stir again for a min.  Next put 1cup of water, stir and add salt and other spices. Let it cook for few minutes till tomatoes soften.  While its still watery break  bread pieces by hand and put in the pan. Stir it and bread would take up all the water making it soft.  Stir some more till it comes to required thick consistency.

Switch off gas and put bread upma in plate. Put coriander leaves to garnish and serve hot.

Optional: you can add ginger garlic paste with onion and add some more vegetables if you prefer.

I have kept it mild but you can increase the chilli if you want it more hot.  This above recipe serves one.  Increase quantities if you want to make more.

There is a dry upma method too and in that no tomatoes or water is used but its too dry so I prefer the one with gravy.

Enjoy!

  

  

INSTANT BREAD UPMA

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