Dec 03 2007
Vermicelli Upma
Ingredients
1 cup bambino vermicelli
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
half cup chopped spring onions
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 spring onion. Now slowly add the wheat bran and mix well. Fry till vermicelli turns slightly brown. Now add 2 cups water and boil. Put a lid on the pan and let it cook for 10 min stirring in between.Garnish it with coriander leaves and server hot
