Vegetable Rava Upma Recipe: learn how to make vegetable rava upma using this easy, classic recipe, a popular South Indian Breakfast!
I love breakfast, and I love it more when it's served for dinner. I guess I was just raised like that. We had dosa for dinner 5 out of 7 days a week and my mom's idlis are very popular among friends in Kottayam. She even used to make them for small parties and get togethers where people used to skip the appam and curry and come straight for her spongy soft idli.
Anyway, breakfast for dinner. I continue the same thing after marriage too. TH used to say "dosa ya? Night kaa??" the first couple of times but even he understands the convenience of making a few dosas and having it with hot, freshly made sambar.
Rava Upma was never a favourite while growing up. I like my upma dry (or rather, drier) and not sticky. I also like to add any vegetables in hand to it and make it wholesome. Here is my super simple upma recipe that we have never had for breakfast yet, always just for dinner.
If you love breakfast recipes, also check out this rava idli with eno salt, masala dosa recipe, and how to make plain dosa.
Vegetable Rava Upma Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup rava / semolina
- 1 onion finely chopped
- ¼ cup peas fresh or frozen
- 1 cup mixed vegetables chopped (carrots, potatoes and beans)
- 2 green chillies chopped (adjust to taste)
- 1 " piece ginger grated
- A few curry leaves
- ½ teaspoon urad dal / uluntham paruppu / uzhunnu parippu
- ¼ teaspoon mustard seeds / kaduku
- A few roasted cashewnuts to garnish optional
- Coriander leaves chopped, for garnish (didn't have any this time)
- 2 teaspoon oil
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- Dry roast the rava in a pan until it turns a light brown (about 7-10 mins). Transfer to a bowl when done and set aside to cool.
- Heat oil in the same pan and add the mustard seeds, urad dal and curry leaves. When the dal turns golden brown and the mustard seeds splutter, add the onions, green chillies and ginger. Fry for 4-5 mins until the onions turns golden brown.
- Now add the peas and vegetables. Mix well. Add about 3 cups water and cook closed until the vegetables turn soft.
- Open, add salt and mix well. Then lower fire to sim and add the roasted rava little at a time, stirring constantly to avoid lumps. Continue to cook and stir for another 5 mins.
- Remove and serve hot with vegetable sambar and coconut chutney
Suparna
hi Nags,
As a kid I too hated upma, now I think it's the easiest and the quickest to prepare, Like u we too have breakfast items for dinner 🙂 for the same reasons as urs 🙂 We love upmas just the same way fluffy and not sticky :)sambar and upma sounded a new combo for me..we have it with chutney or podi 🙂
Enjoy the week ahead!
TC
redChillies
Like you I used to hate upma, but now cannot have enough of it. Even I make this for dinner 🙂
veggie belly
I like my upma dry too!
RAKS KITCHEN
Love this,my all time favorite:)
Ann
Wow, what a lovely picture and it loks super tempting.
jayasri
As usual your platter looks so tempting.., upma is all time favourite, quick and easy me too.., sometimes i do it for dinner with morsaadam that's it...lovely presentation
Shama Nagarajan
quick comfort yummy breakfast...lovely presentation
Kalyani
wow the upma looks great & delicious .... also colorful ......
My Experiments with Cooking
I hated upma inspite of mom trying numerous variations. Now, I nag her to make upma. I love to have upma with lots of vegetables because that way you need no accompaniment!Yours looks colorful 🙂
Sig
We never used to have breakfast for dinner at home, though we've had dinner for breakfast occasionally 🙂 Chappati and chicken curry, yum! Only after I met Siv's parents I came to know that people eat "tiffin" for dinner.