Vegetable Aval Upma | Vegetable poha upma | Vegetable poha recipe

Cuisine Style: South India | Cooking Time: 5 to 8 minutes | To Serve: 4 | Type: Breakfast, dinner | Take With: Chips, pickles, chutney

Ingredients

• Aval [poha or Flattened rice] – 1 cup
• Onion – 1 [sliced or chopped]
• Carrot – ½ cup [finely chopped]
• Capsicum – ¼ cup [finely chopped]
• Tomato – 1 [finely chopped]
• Coconut – ¼ cup [grated] [Optional]
• Green chilli – 1 [slit or chopped]
• Ginger – 1 tbsp [finely chopped]
• Coriander leaves – 2 springs [chopped]
• Curry leaves – 1 spring
• Mustard seeds – 1 tbsp
• Cumin seeds – ½ tbsp
• Bengal gram – 1 tbsp
• Urad dal – 1 tbsp
• Oil – 2 tbsp
• Salt to taste
• Water as needed

Method

• Wash smooth poha and drain water. Don’t soak poha. For thick poha soak in water for a min.
• Heat oil in a pan then add mustard seed & let it splutter. Add Bengal gram, urad dal & cumin seeds.
• Then add onion sauté well then add ginger, green chilli & curry leaves.
• Add carrot & capsicum sauté. Then add tomato, turmeric & red chilli powder sauté.
• Add grated coconut sauté gently. Add poha and salt then mix well.
• Add chopped coriander leaves. Cut off heat and serve hot with pickle, coconut chutney.

Tip

• You can add roasted or fried nuts, beans, green peas etc.