Upma

Ingredients:

Recipe from Sriram, 1985

This is a breakfast dish in the southern part of India.

Ingredients:
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1 cup        Cream of wheat
1            Onion cut lengthwise
1 tsp        Salt
1/4 tsp      Mustard seeds
1/8 tsp      Urad dal
1            Cashew-nut
1/4          Lemon
1/2 cup      Peas
1 clove      Garlic
1/10" piece  Ginger
1            Green chili cut into small pieces.z

Method:

Method:
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Fry cream of wheat on a dry pan for 5 minutes and set aside.
 
Put two tablespoons of oil in a pan and heat.  Add mustard seeds, Urad
dal, cashewnut, and garlic clove.  Wait till mustard seeds stop
splitting.  Add the onion, chili, and ginger and fry till the onion
turns brown.  Add cream of wheat and fry for 3-5 minutes.  Add salt and
peas.  Add two cups of boiling water and stir for 2 minutes.  (Switch
off the stove as soon as the water is poured.)
 
Cover the vessel for 4 minutes.  Add lime if needed.