Nutri-Cracked Wheat Upma
Not only is this variation of the traditional upma rich in protein and fibre, it is also very tasty. Try it for breakfast or as an any-time snack!
Ingredients:
- Raw rice 200 gm
- Potato 2 small pieces
- Mustard ½ tea spoon
- Chana dal Broken 1 tea spoon
- Green Chilli 1 piece
- Garam Masala 1 table spoon
- Paneer grated 1 cup
- Cooking oil 1 table spoon Salt – a pinch
Procedure:
For Stuffing:
- Leach the potatoes, mash them and mix with grated paneer along with garam masala.
For the base:
- Wash the raw rice and leave it soaked for 1 hour.
- Decant the water and spread the rice on a piece of cloth.
- Allow it to drain all the water and grind it in the mixer to a fine powder.
- Sieve it to remove the unground granules.
- Keep the ground rice powder aside.
- Take 2 tspn cooking oil and fry (thadka) mustard and chana dal.
- Add the thadka along with the chopped green chilli and salt to the dry rice powder.
- Mix the entire powder thoroughly.
- Boil about 200 ml of water in a vessel and add the mixed powder slowly and keep stirring so that it becomes viscous.
- Knead hard enough to make small balls. Add water if it becomes too hard while cooking.
- Flatten the ball and stuff it with the paneer-potato.
- Seam the ball.
- Steam the balls in an idli holder in a pressure cooker without the weight whistle for 10 minutes. (Spread a little oil on the idli plates to avoid sticking.)
- Serve hot!