Aruna gave me this recipe recently. Though I had seen this in one of the recipe books, I had not tried it. But thanks to Aruna, I tried this and it was fabulous. Since so many vegetables are used in it, it can be considered as very healthy too.
In the book I mentioned above, they have included sprouted moong also, but since I was not having it handy, I just followed whatever Aruna has mentioned.
Ingredients: Sooji(wheat rava) 1 cup Onion 1/2 cup Green peas , carrot, beans (cut into small pieces) 1/2 cup Tomato 1/4 cup Turmeric a pinch Mustard seeds 1/2 tea spn Urad daal(optional) 1/2 tea spn Asafoetida a pinch Oil/ghee 2 tea spns Sugar 1/2 tea spn Green chillies 2-3 Curry leaves 4-5 Coconut 1 tbl spn Coriander leaves 2-3 strands Salt
Method: Boil around 2 cups of water with carrot, beans and peas. Heat oil and add mustard, urad daal(optional). When mustard starts popping and urad daal turns slightly brownish, add curry leaves(cut the leaves into two to enhance the aroma). Add asafoetida, turmeric and green chillies. Add onion and fry till onions turn transparent. Now add sooji(rava) and fry on a low flame for around 6-7mins (take care not to burn the rava). Rava could be fried separately and added instead of frying it in peas mixture. Add salt, tomatoes and sugar, mix well. Transfer water along with vegetables to the rava mixture. Cover and cook till all water is absorbed. Mix well. Add coconut. Garnish with coriander leaves. Serve hot with or without sev.
Serves : 3 Preparation time : 15mins
Updated on 18th October 2006 : I got a mail from Bhumika Shah today, with the recipe and picture of vegetable upma. The method she has specified is slightly different. She first boils water and then adds roasted rava. Both the methods are equally good. Thanks Bhumika for the mail :).
Are you thinking I have made a mistake in the title of the post?? Jaggery has a medicinal value? Isn’t it strange? To tell you the truth, I never knew about it until I read an interesting article in one of the old Kannada weekly. I thought it would be useful for my readers.
- Drink jaggery panak(any drink using jaggery), while drinking water eat a bit of jaggery or add a bit of jaggery to day to day dishes. This will help in reducing the occurance of headache.
- For sprain, heat jaggery and ghee, when it is still warm, apply to sprain. The pain reduces slowly.
- For running nose, mix jaggery with some curd(curd should not be sour) and eat.
- For headache, mix old jaggery with same proportion of sesame seeds. Grind both with a little milk. Heat the mixture with a small quantity of ghee. Apply this to the forehead and sleep. Headache reduces gradually.
- For continuous severe headaches, mix ghee and jaggery in same proportion and eat daily for 5-6 days. The headache goes off.
In olden days, people used to make tea and coffee using jaggery, but these days people are using sugar instead of jaggery. But still some people use jaggery for tea, coffee and other drinks and due to this they get definite health improvement.
These days since medicines are available for almost all the diseases people might laugh at some of these remedies. But my whole purpose is to store such precious bits of information and I am sure these will come handy one or the other day.
