Kuthiraivali Upma | Millet Upma | Breakfast Recipe

Kuthiraivallu Upma, an quick and easy to make breakfast with the millets. This is one of my recent favorite breakfast recipe to make on my lazy days. It's quite similar to the arisi(rice) upma in taste and texture. Once i had knew the knack of cooking the millet perfectly, i have been trying out various recipe with millets in the place of rice and this upma is one among of my successful experiment of using millets in the place of rice. It turned out so delicious and fluffy.
The tempering used in this upma really goes well with the millets. I have tried the same upma recipe with kodo,little & branyard millet. All turned out well, so you can use any millets for this upma as per your liking. I personally like coconut flavor in all my upma dishes,so i have used coconut oil and grated coconut here in this recipe too.  Without further delay, let's check out the recipe, but if you want to know what i have prepared for past 2 days under Whole Grains, here they are
Day 1 - Kambu Koozh
Day 2 - Millet/Samai Puliyodharai

Kuthiraivali Upma

Preparation Time : 5 mins | Cooking Time : 15 mins | Serves : 2 
Recipe Category: Millet | Recipe Cuisine: Indian

Ingredients

Barnyard Millet - 1/2 cup

Pearl Onion - 4

Green Chili - 2 nos
Ginger - 1 tsp(chopped)

Curry leaves - few
Grated Coconut - 2 tbsp

Coconut Oil - 1 tsp

Mustard 1 tsp

Channa Dal - 1 tsp

Water - 1 cup

Salt - to taste

Procedure

Soak the millet in the water for 20 mins, peel the onions and chop them into small piece,slit the green chili. Heat the kadai with oil, add the mustard and let it crackle.Add onion,chili,ginger,curry leaves,channa dal one by one and saute till the onions becomes translucent. Then add the water and salt.Let the water comes to boil , drain the water from the millet and add into the boiling water. keep the flame in medium and cover the pan, let it cook until all the water absorbs. Finally add the grated coconut and mix it well.Tada,  Healthy Millet Upma is ready fo serve. Taste as good as on its own or you can serve it with chutney or sambar.

Notes:

• Ginger gives great flavor to the upma, so highly recommend to add it.
• Instead of coconut oil, you can use any cooking oil as per your liking.
• Carrot & frozen peas can also be added into upma.
• Soaking the millet is necessary to achieve softly cooked millets.
  

 

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