Preparation time: 10 min
Cooking time: 15 min
Serves: 3

Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)

1. 1 cup medium rava / sooji / semolina
2. 2.25 cups water
3. 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
4. 1 tsp urad dal
5. 1 tsp bengal gram dal / chana dal
6. 1 big onion (1 tsp sugar + a pinch of asafoetida if not using onion)
7. 1-2 green chili
8. 5-6 curry leaves
9. 1 tsp finely chopped ginger
10. 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
11. 4-5 tsp cooking oil
12. Salt as per your taste
13. 2 tbsp chopped coriander leaves
14. 1/2 cup fresh grated coconut
15. 1 tsp lemon juice (optional)

Instruction for making rave uppittu:

1. Chop onion, ginger and coriander leaves, slit green chilis and keep all other ingredients ready and handy. Take water and salt in a vessel and bring it to boil under low flame. Water will take few minutes to boil and in this time gap start preparing the upma or uppittu. Because we need the boiling water only at the end.
2. Now to prepare upma take oil, mustard seeds, urad dal and chana dal in a large frying pan and heat it. When the mustard seed splutters add in slit green chilis, curry leaves, chopped ginger and onion. Fry them till the onions are soft under medium flame.
3. When onions turn soft, add 2 cups of rava, turmeric powder and continue frying for 5 more minutes under medium flame.
4. By now water will be boiling and pour the boiling water to the pan little by little. Mix well till it absorbs all the water. It will take hardly 1 minute.
5. Close the lid and allow it to cook for 3 to 4 minutes under low flame. Then open the lid add grated coconut, lemon juice and chopped coriander leaves and mix well. Close the lid again and switch off the stove. After a minute, mix again and serve it hot with sugar or curd or pickle.

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