Upma

Ingredients:

• One cup Semolina
• One big Onion
• 3-4 green chilies finely chopped
• Udad daal
• 2 tsp of peanuts
• Half tomato finely chopped
• Ginger (optional)
• half tsp mustered seeds
• Pinch of asafoetida
• 5-6 Curry leaves
• 1 tsp Ghee
• 3-4 tsp oil
• salt to taste
• 2 cups water

Upma

Preparation:

1. Heat 1 tsp ghee in a pan and saute semolina in it for 5 minutes in slow flame. Take it out in a bowl.
2. Now clean the pan and add 3-4 tsp of oil in it. Heat the oil and shallow fry peanuts in it till they become golden brown.
3. Take out the peanuts in another bowl. Now add mustered seeds, let them crackle. Then add green chilies, curry leaves, asafoetida, ginger. 
4. Then add finely chopped onion and saute it till becomes transparent and slightly brown, add 1 tsp of sugar if want.
5. Then add 2 cups of water and bring it to boil. At this point add salt. 
6. Now add the semolina slowly. Keep stirring continuously while adding semolina so that the mixture wont form any lumps.
7. Stir continuously till the mixture become thick. Then cover the pan for 3-4 minutes. Garnish the upma with coriander and server hot with or without coconut chutney.

Note: 

You can add turmeric if you want your upma of yellow color.

Sambar

Ingredients:
Toor dal

Oil

Cumin Seeds - 1 Tsp
Mustard Seeds- 1 Tsp
Onions - 1 Big

Minced Ginger

chopped Garlic - 4-5 cloves
Turmeric - 1/2 Tsp
Chili powder
Sambar masala (I use MDH) - 1 Tsp
Thick Tamarind pulp - 2 Tsp
Tomato - 1
Asafoedia(Hing) - 1/4 Tsp
Vegetables – eggplant, carrot, potatoes, coli-flower, drumsticks etc
 

Sambar

 
 
Procedure:
1. Cook daal in pressure cooker with asafoedia and turmeric powder. Give it 3 vessels.
2. When daal cooks, make sure to beat it to make it smooth.
3. In a vessel, put oil and add the seasoning of mustered and cumin seeds, when they splutter, add onion and saute till it becomes golden brown.
4. Add salt, chili powder and 1 Tsp sambar masala.
5. Add tomatoes and chopped vegetables, add water.
6. Boil it for at least 20-25 mins to cook the veggies .
7. Add tamarind pulp.
8. Adjust salt as per taste. and add 1 Tsp of sambar masala again and boil for some more time.


Your hot, spicy and tasty Sambar is ready :)