Hara bhara Upma/Spinach Upma

So here is more delicious,more healthy Upma recipe, Hara bhara Upma. Try this recipe and add more veggies in your diet.

Ingredients:

1 Cup Semolina/Rava/Sooji

 One Tomato

1 cup spinach

1/4 cup peanuts

1 medium onion (Chopped)

10 to 12 curry leaves

1 tsp cumin seeds

1 tsp mustard seeds

1 tsp urad daal

2 to 3 Green Chilly (Chopped)

Salt as per taste

2 tbsp oil 

2 cups water

Coriander leaves for garnish.

Method:

1. Blanch tomato and Spinach and grind them to make puree.

2. Heat a Pan and dry roast rava/sooji on a medium heat. Stir often while roasting.

3. Once rava/sooji began to smell toasty and fragrant ,switch off the flame. 

4  Keep roasted rava/sooji aside.

5.  In a pan,add 2 tbsp of oil. 

6. When oil is hot add mustard seeds.

7. Once mustard seeds start crackling ,add cumin seeds ,curry leaves,urad daal.

8. Fry till they are brown. 

9. Now add Peanuts,saute for a min and add chopped onions,green chilly and salt.

10. Saute till onions become translucent.

11. Add spinach,tomato puree with water and give it a boil on high flame.

12. Lower the flame and add rava/sooji in 4 to 5 batches.Once you add rava/sooji stir immediately after each batch.

13. Mix well. Rava grains will absorb all the water and upma will become thicker.

14. Cover pan with lid and let Upma to steam for 2 to 3 minutes on low flame.

15. Garnish Upma with coriander leaves.