Aval Upma | Poha Upma Recipe | Easy Breakfast Recipes
Ingredients
- Thick aval- 1 cup
- Onion- 1 medium sized
- Green chillies- 2 nos.
- Grated coconut- 3 tsp
- Salt- 3/4 tsp
- Sugar- 1 tsp
- Lemon- 1/2 piece
- Coriander leaves- fistful
Seasoning ingredients
- Cooking oil- 6tsp
- Mustard seeds- 1 tsp
- Split black gram lentil urad dal- 1 tsp
- chana dal- 1 tsp
- Curry leaves- few
- Turmeric powder- 1/2 tsp
- Groundnut- 3 tsp
Instructions
Preparation
- Wash aval in enough water and soak it for few minutes in immersing level water till the aval becomes soft(not mushy). Drain the water completely and keep the aval aside.
- Finely chop onion, coriander leaves and green chillies, set aside.
Method
- Heat a wok adding cooking oil, mustard seeds, urad dal and curry leaves. Saute till the mustard seeds splutter. When they pop add chana dal, ground nut and turmeric powder. Saute for a while.
- Now add chopped onion and green chillies. When these onions turn translucent include drained aval, grated coconut, sugar and chopped coriander leaves. Mix well. Switch off the flame.
- Squeeze half lemon or 1.5 tsp of lemon juice. Aval upma is ready to serve as filling breakfast or evening snack.
Note
- Soaking time is completely dependent on quality of aval | poha. Some variety of thick poha need much time to be soft and some other become mushy within minutes.
- Do not skip adding sugar, slight sweet touch will enhance the taste of aval upma.Add it only after including aval to the seasoning.