Upma - Kerala Breakfast Recipe

Ingredients



















• 1 Cup sooji (Rava)
• 1/3 Cup peas
• 1 Onion
• 2 tbsp Ghee
• 2 Cups water
• 2 Green chilies
• 1/4 tsp Ginger
• 1/4 tsp Cumin seeds
• 1/4 tsp Mustard seeds
• Curry leaves
• 8 Cashewnuts
• Salt to taste

Directions

• Mix and rub ghee into the sooji.
• Roast in microwave for about 2 minutes.
• Mix remaining ghee, cumin seeds, curry leaves, mustard and cashew nuts in a casserole.
• Cook the mixture on Micro High for about 3 minutes.
• Add chopped greed chilli, ginger, onions and cook again for 3 minutes.
• Now add salt, roasted sooji and water.
• Stir well and cover it.
• Cook in microwave for 10 minutes.
• Upma is ready. Serve it with pickle.

Vegetable Biriyani

Ingredients

1. Basmati rice - 2 cups
2. Water - 3 cups
3. Ginger garlic paste - 3 tsp
4. Green chillies - 4
5. Onion - 1 lengthwise chopped
6. Tomato - 1 finely chopped
7. Cinnamon - 1 inch stick
8. Cardamom - 2
9. Clove - 2
vegetable biriyani 10. Bay leaf - 1
11. Cashew nuts - 10
12. Coconut milk - 1 cup (thick)
13. Ghee - 6 tsp
14. Carrot & Beans - 1 cup
15. Peas - ½ cup
16. coriander leaves - few
17. Mint leaves - few

Vegetable biriyani preparation

Heat the pressure cooker with ghee. Then add cashew nuts, cinnamon, cardamom, clove and bay leaf.

Sauté for few mins. Then add onions. Fry for few mins.

Next add tomatoes, ginger garlic paste and green chillies. Sauté until the raw smell disappears.

Then add carrots, beans and peas. Combine well.

Now add rice, coconut milk, water, coriander leaves and mint leaves. Close the pressure cooker.

Pressure cook for 2 whistles and switch off the stove.

Now your vegetable biriyani is ready.

Serve hot with onion raitha.