Rawa Upma

                                   Upma is every easy-to-cook recipe. We can make different varieties of upma recipes, but rava upma is the basic upma. In Andhra, for any function they will mostly serve upma as breakfast.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup semolina (sooji, rava)
• 1 medium sized onion, cut lengthwise
• 2 green chilly,slit into half
• 1/2 tsp avvalu/ mustard seed
• 1/2 tsp jeera/ cumin seeds
• 1 tbsp senagapappu/ chana dal
• ½ tbsp minapa pappu/ urad dal
• ½ inch ginger grated or chopped finely
• 3 cups water
• 1 sprig of curry leaves
• 7-8 ground nuts or cashew nuts
• 2 tbsp oil or ghee
• salt as required

Method:

• Boil 3 cups of water in a pan.
• While boiling water, take another pan, heat oil or ghee.
• Add mustard seeds, when they splutter, add the cumin along with ground nuts, chana dal and urad dal. 
• Fry till they start to brown a little.
• Now add onions and fry till they become transparent. Now add the green chilly, ginger, curry leaves,  fry for a min.
• Now add sooji to this and fry for 2 min and add salt and boiling water to it.
• Keep on stirring while you add water, otherwise lumps will be formed.Keep on stirring.
• If the mixture looks dry, then add some more water.
• Reduce the flame and simmer the upma for 2-3 minutes.
• Keep stirring so that the upma does not stick to the pan.
• Garnish upma with coriander/cilantro leaves.
• Serve upma hot with slices of lime or any pickle or sugar.

Tip:
 Add salt in boiling water. The water must be slightly salty.