Beet Root - Corn Upma

Upma is somewhat a life saver in my house. I make this for breakfast as well as for dinner sometimes. Last weekend we dint step out of the house as it was very cold and had not gone for grocery shopping. I was out of all the vegetables. When I opened my fridge I saw only beets left and thought will make chapati and beets curry. Then I heard my 3 year old calling me "mommy I want upittu". As soon as she saw beets in my hand, she forgot what she was saying and she wanted them to eat. I cut and gave them to her a piece and asked for more and she had half of one beet. Then it occurred to me why not do beetroot upma. Along with that I added her favourite corn too. She enjoyed eating the upma and she was like "Thank You Mommy". So sweet... This was our dinner..
Ingredients:
TheUpma Rava - 2 cup Onion – 1 small Beetroot – 1 medium (diced to small pieces) Corn – ¼ cup Chilies – 4 (split to halves) Mustard seeds – ¼ tsp Channa Dhal – ½ tsp Urad dhal – ½ tsp Curry Leaves Coriander leaves Oil – 2 Tb spoon Salt Water – 4 cups Method:
  • Fry rava with little oil until you get the aroma. Then keep aside.
  • Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds. When it splutters, add channa dhal and urad dhal.
  • When it gets little brown add chopped onions and chilies and fry till onions are golden brown.
  • Then add dices beetroot and corn and allow it to cook by adding a little salt.
  • Break the curry leaves with hands and add to it.
  • Cover and allow it to cook for few minutes.
  • Then add water and allow it to boil.
  • When the water starts boiling, add rava slowly. Keep stirring while adding rava.
  • Cover the lid and allow the rava to cook for few minutes on low heat.
  • Then add coriander leaves on top and stir and serve hot.

19 comments:

Finla said...

Wowo with the adding of beetroot, the upma looks so beutiful.

Pavithra Kodical said...

Nice click!! Upma looks delicious with the addition of beet..Good dish to impress if kids are around :)

Vanamala Hebbar said...

so colorful upma ...healthy too ..nice

FH said...

Aww..!! What a sweet girl you have!! :)

Mine runs away from all kinds of vegetables!!!Grr..!

Beetrrot uppittu tumba colorful agide, never tried with beets! :)

Ashwini said...

Thank You Happy Cook, Vanamala, Pavithra, Asha - Really she is very sweet..Till today I dint have any problem feeding veggies, as she eats everything..Touch wood

Unknown said...

Beets changes the colour of the dish, red uppitu looks nice. very good entry.

Kannada Cuisine said...

Lovely colour...

CurryLeaf said...

Lovely .The addition of beets enhances the upma.never tried this combo.looks perfect.

Shreya said...

hi, you have a lovely blog! addition of beetroot and corn to upma is a great healthy combo, and great idea for kids:-)

Unknown said...

beetroot is a nice healthy addition..looks yumm

Srikitchen said...

looks yum yum!

Priya Suresh said...

Never tried upma with beets, such a lovely colour n healthy combo..looks awesome..

ranji said...

Lovely!!i too add beets and corn to upma sometimes for change..its tastes so good..love the way u have presented it.:)

KonkaniBlogger said...

Nice twist to the upma with the beets. Nice color and great entry for Click, Ashwini.

Deepthi Shankar said...

wow, i have never used beet in upma .. cool idea

Usha said...

Beet in upma? neat idea...looks so pretty :-)

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I prepared beetroot pasta recently from another blog and it was so good. However beetroot in upma, I've never tried. Thanks for the idea.

Yasmeen said...

beets in Upma,now that's what I call healthy cooking:)

Anonymous said...

Lovely!Never tried upma with beets.Mouth watering already..thanks!