RAGI (FINGER MILLET) FLOUR UPMA I KEZHVARAGU MAAVU UPMA

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Hi dear friends, today very simple yet unique and delicious healthy upma... we all had rava upma, arisi upma, idli upma like that, but did you tried or tasted ragi(fingermillet) flour upma.. Yes! In ragi flour we can made delicious upma and its my favourite upma too. Photos are not satisfaction of the upma, will upload good photos soon... :)



The upma was I learnt from my neighbour and my mom gave a try once, we love the upma and started to add the upma in our frequent menu. Am sure you will love this upma, try once and let me know your feedback. In the same way you can make in wheat flour too to make wheat flour upma...



Category
Side Dishes
Regional
Indian 
Preparation Time
10 Minutes
Cooking Time
15-20 Minutes
Servings
2





INGREDIENTS
Ragi flour/Finger millet flour – 1 Cup (I forgot to display in the list)
Oil – 1 Tbsp 
Mustard seeds – 2 Tsp 
Urad dal – 2 Tsp
Green chillies – 3 broken
Shallots – ¼ Cup chopped
Salt – To taste
Grated Coconut – 2 Tbsp
Water – 2 Cup


METHOD
  • Dry roast the ragi flour in a pan till the aroma comes and cools it.
  • Heat oil in a pan, add mustard and urad dal wait till it splutters.
  • Add shallots, green chillies and curry leaves sauté it with little salt till shallots turns translucent.
  • Now add 2 Cups of water and add enough salt and cover with lid.
  • When its boiling add the ragi flour and stir continuously without leaving hand on low flame, till the flour gets cooked, it will absorbs all the water.

  • Check the flour is cooked by pressing between the index and thumb finger, it should not be sticky. Switch off the flame and add grated coconut and stir it once.
  • Serve it hot...


NOTE
  • You can use dry red chillies instead of green chillies.
  • Add onions instead of shallots, but shallots gives unique taste.
  • Dry roast of ragi flour is important and be careful not to burn it.



HEALTHY, UNIQUE, DELICIOUS AND SIMPLE RAGI FLOUR UPMA!!!



14 comments:

  1. Very different upma :) healthy breakfast

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  2. Healthy and delicious breakfast.. This is something new to me.. Would try it sometime soon.

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  3. hey sorry for leaving a comment with link back...

    This is absolutely healthy upma..... :)
    cheers
    Anu
    Anu's Healthy Kitchen

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  4. Definitely a nutritious upma, healthy and delicious.

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  5. Upma sounds delicious and healthy.

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  6. wow, this is something very new to me....

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  7. great recipe. But a whole wheat flour is a must for such recipe.
    nutrition whole wheat flour 

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