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Wheat bran upma

I am sure all south indians are all familiar with semolina or rava upma. But there is another variety of upma too…goduma rava upma or wheat bran upma. Its highly nutritious and really tasty.

Here is the recipe :-

Cooking time 20-25 min

Ingredients

1 cup wheat bran
1 cup diced Onion
2 diced green chillies
Curry leaves – 4 to 5
1 potato cut into pieces
1 cup boiled peas
1 cup diced carrot
2 cups water

Popu or Tadka

1 teaspoon sanagapappu
1 teaspoon minapappu
1 teaspoon  mustard seeds
1 teaspoon  jeera
2 or 3 red chilli
half a teaspoon of ginger garlic paste
salt to taste

Method

Pour some vegetable oil in a pan. Add mustard seeds and let it splutter. Add sanagapappu, minapapappu, jeera and red chillies. Stir well. Add onion, green chilies, curry leaves and ginger garlic paste and keep stirring until onions are transparent and soft. Add potato, peas and salt and let it cook for a while. Add 2 cups water and let it boil. Now slowly add the wheat bran and mix well. Put a lid on the pan and let it cook for 10 min stirring in between. After it is cooked, garnish it with coriander leaves and savour it!