Healthy Food Recipes - Varagu Arisi Upma / Kodo Millet Upma
Posted on: 17/Mar/2015 2:54:52 PM
Ingredients:
- Varagu Arisi (Kodo Millet) – 1 cup
- Onion – 1
- Green or Red Chilli – 2 nos
- Ginger – a small piece
- Garlic – 4 cloves
- Urad Dal – 1 tsp
- Channa Dal – 1 tsp
- Mustard Seeds – 1/4 tsp
- Cumin Seeds – ¼ tsp
- Curry Leaves – a few
- Asafoetida – a pinch
- Cooking oil – 3 tbsp.
- Salt – as required
- Water – 2 ½ cup
Method of Preparation:
- Soak varagu arisi for about 20 to 30 minutes in water.
- Chop onion, ginger and garlic into small pieces.
- Heat pan with a spoon of oil and add mustard seeds and cumin seeds, wait till it splutters.
- Then add Channa dal and Urad dal to it.
- Once it turns light brown, add Red or Green chilli (splinted), Curry leaves, Ginger, Garlic paste and a pinch of Asafoetida.
- Now add chopped Onion, and saute well for about a minute.
- Add soaked and drained Varagu arisi and required salt.
- Add required quantity of water to it and mix well. Usually the water measure is for 1 cup of Varagu arisi add 2 ½ cup of water.
- Pressure cook the mix for about 1 whistle, then keep the stove in low flame for about 3 to 5 minutes and switch off the flame.
- Once the pressure gets released, open the lid mix well with ladle and sprinkle chopped coriander leaves for garnishing and add a spoon of ghee (optional).
- Serve hot Varagu Arisi Upma either with Coconut or Red chutney!
Tips:
- You can very well add carrot, beans, peas or potato while preparing Upma. It will make the Upma more colourful and healthy too.
- For 1 cup of Varagu arisi 2 ½ cup to 2 ¾ cup of water is more than enough. If you wish, you can add 3 cup of water for 1 cup of Varagu arisi.
- Varagu arisi is termed as ‘Kodo Millet’. It is one among the small millet type.
- It is gluten free and highly nutritious food.
- Varagu arisi is rich in Fibre.
- It is easily digestible too.
- It can simply reduce body weight.
- Varagu arisi is the rich source of Proteins, Minerals and Calcium.
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Mrs. Lavanya Sampath
