Rice Flakes Upma

Ingredients

• • Rice flakes (aval/poha) - 2 cups
• • Onions - 2
• • Green chillies - 10
• • Turmeric powder - ½ teaspoon
• • Lemon - 1
• • Powder salt - 1 ½ teaspoons
• • Coconut (grated) - 2 tablespoons (optional)
• • Coriander leaves (chopped) - 1 tablespoon
• • Oil - 6 tablespoons
• • Peas (cooked) - ¼ cup

Ingredients For Tampering

• • Mustard seeds - ½ teaspoon
• • Black gram dal - ½ teaspoon
• • Bengal gram dal - ½ teaspoon
• • Curry leaves - 1 sprig

Method

• 1. If thick rice flakes are used, soak it in just enough water for two hours. If thin rice flakes are used,wash well, squeeze and do immediately.
• 2. Chop onions into small pieces and chillies lengthwise.
• 3. Heat oil in deep curved pan, add seasonings, green chillies and then onion.
• 4. Saute till onions change its colour.
• 5. Add cooked peas, soaked rice flakes (which is separated well with hands) with salt and turmeric powder.
• 6. Stir constantly in high flame till raw smell goes.
• 7. Squeeze lemon and serve hot garnished with grated coconut.

Variations - Tamarind Aval

• • Reduce green chillies, omit lemon but soak rice flakes in thin tamarind extract along with little sugar and red chilly powder (or rasam powder)
• • Pound rice flakes coarsely and soak in tamarind extract.
• • Do not add onion.
• • Add few red chillies while frying instead of chilly powder.
• • Add cooked crumbled potatoes or sprouted green gram with greens (keerai) and do the recipe.
• • Cooked channa can be used instead of peas.
• • Squeeze lemon and serve along with channa sundal or peas sundal.