Gothumai Rava Upma, a healthy and delicious breakfast/dinner recipe made from broken wheat. It's one of the easiest tiffin recipes that you can make in a pressure cooker on busy mornings. Unlike regular rava/semolina, broken wheat takes little longer time to cook, so i have used my pressure cooker to quick the process. But you can make this upma in the open pot also.

Depending on the brand, size of the broken wheat & how fluffy or mushy you want, the water quantity may vary. The broken wheat that i got here has bigger granules than the one that i used to make in India. So it takes a couple of tries to figure out how much water it needs to cook to my liking. It needs exactly 2.5 cups of water for 1 cup of broken wheat to cook it perfectly without being mushy.

In today's recipe, i have used carrots alone in the upma. But you can add beans, peas also along with carrots or even you can make without any veggies, still it tastes great. Personally i like this broken wheat upma more than the regular rava upma because of its texture and the mild chewiness in the broken wheat. Now let's check out how to make this delicious upma in a pressure cooker quickly.

Gothumai Rava Upma

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

Ingredients
Broken Wheat - 1/2 cup
Pearl onion - 3
Green Chili - 2
Carrot(small) - 1/2
Water - 1 & 1/4 cup
Sugar - 1/2 tsp
Salt - to taste
Grated Coconut - 1 tbsp
Coriander leaves - few
To Temper
Coconut oil - 1 tsp
Mustard & urad dal - 1/4 tsp
Chana dal - 1 tsp
Curry leaves - few

Procedure

First peel the onions. Chop carrot and onions into small pieces. Slit the green chilies. Heat the pressure cooker and temper the ingredients listed under "To Temper" and saute till the dals are golden brown.

Then add the onions, carrot & chilies and saute till the carrots and onions are soft. Next add the water and salt. Bring the water into boil.

Add the sugar & broken wheat and mix it well together.

Cover the cooker with lid and cook it for one whistle. Switch off the flame and let the pressure release from the cooker automatically. Open the lid and then add the grated coconut and chopped coriander leaves. Mix it well.