Flattened rice upma/flattened rice porridge/Avaal upma

Upam /porridge is the common breakfast in South India, mostly its made by semolina, broken wheat, avaal.This particular porridge is easy to make in no time and its also stomach  filling.

Serves: 5 cooking time: 7 mins preparation time: 5mins

Ingredients:

4 cup Medium-flatened rice
1 tbsp of pepper
2 tsp of cumin seeds
1 tbsp of oil
1 tsp of mustard
1 tsp of yellow gram lentil
 1 sprig curry leaves
 salt to taste

Method:

• Soak the flattened rice in 3 cups of water for 5 minutes, till it is soft.
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• In a pestle mortar add pepper, cumin and make it to a coarse powder
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• Heat the oil in  a pan add mustard once it splatters add lentil, curry leaves and the pepper-cumin powder
• Then add the flattened rice and  toss it, add salt. Cook for 2 minutes stirring it, so that the pepper-cumin powder, tempering  nicely mixes with flattened rice.
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• Now its ready to serve.