Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Aval Upma/ Poha

This is one of my husband's favorites and I end up making it once a week, if not twice :) It is very easy to make and hardly takes any time to cook unlike rice and sambhar.
well, the recipe goes like this:

1 1/2 cups of thick aval/ Poha/ flattened rice
1 large potato peeled,cooked and diced into small pieces.
1 diced onion
1 diced tomato
coriander leaves to dress
1/2 tsp Cumin, coriander powder,jeera seeds
1 tsp masala
a pinch of asofoteida
2 tsp oil
2 tsp lemon
1/4 tsp turmeric
1/4 cup roasted groundnuts
salt to taste
1-2 green chillies

Wash Poha/ aval clean, drain and keep it aside for 10 minutes.
During this time, heat oil in a heavy saucepan and allow jeera to splutter. Add onions and allow it to fry till golden brown.(I generally use zero calorie cooking spray and less of oil for my cooking. So you could add more oil at this point or spray oil.)Add potatoes first and then tomatoes and all the ingredients except poha and wait for a few minutes for the ingredients to be absorbed before adding poha.
Mix very well, and just salt and lime according to your taste. Stir every now and then in low heat and once the flavours are absorbed and transfer it to a serving dish and garnish with coriander leaves.

Total time it takes should be about 25 minutes and serves about 2-3 people.

2 comments:

Krish said...

If you can please share the secret of makinf boiled water, tea, bread butter jam etc..it will be highly appreciated![:D]

wild rose said...

krish, as i said, i am only presenting my tried and tested recipes...since i do not know to make most of the items u mentioned,i cannot share the recipes too-i am real sorry [:P][:P]