Akki uppittu recipe | How to make rice upma | Roasted rice upma | Easy breakfast recipe
By Latha on Feb 28th, 2020
Akki usli or akki uppittu or recipe explained with step by step pictures and a video. Akki uppittu or rice upma is a very easy and healthy breakfast item. Akki usli or akki uppittu is prepared by roasting the rice. onion, tomato, mixed vegetables, rasam powder, salt, jaggery and tamarind are other main ingredients.
This akki usli recipe makes use of saarina pudi or rasam powder. You can find 2 rasam powder recipes on this website like udupi rasam powder and mysore rasam powder. I have used 1 tbsp of saarina pudi or rasam powder in this recipe, which you can adjust as per your taste. Also if you don't have rasam powder, then you can add any other powder of your choice. Or you can simple add some garam masala and some chilli powder. You can also adjust the other ingredients like salt, tamarind and jaggery as per your taste.
This akki usli recipe can also be called as akki uppittu. This is one simple ricebath recipe, which has very unique taste. You can find one more simple akki usli or akki uppittu recipe on this website, which is without rasam powder.
Uppittu or upma is a very healthy food and you can find rave uppittu or rava upuma, shavige uppittu or vermicelli upuma and Godi kadi uppittu or broken wheat upuma recipes on our website.
If you are looking for more Karnataka style breakfast recipes then do visit our breakfast section.
I have made a video on this recipe with Kannada narration, which I have embedded it below. Kindly have a look.
Preparation time: 10 min
Cooking time: 25 min
Serves: 4
Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)
- 1 cup rice (Sona masuri)
- 3 cups water
- 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
- 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
- Big pinch asafoetida
- 4-5 curry leaves
- 1 big onion
- 1 medium sized carrot
- 7 - 8 beans
- 1 small sized potato
- 1/4 cup fresh or soaked green peas
- Big pinch turmeric powder
- 2 tbsp ghee (or oil)
- 1 tbsp saarina pudi or rasam powder
- 2 tsp salt (or as per your taste)
- Small lemon sized tamarind
- 2 tsp jaggery
- Some chopped coriander leaves
Instructions for making akki uppittu or rice upuma:
- Chop all the vegetables and keep it ready.
- Take rice in a thick bottomed frying pan. Dry roast it until slightly brown.
- Heat ghee (or oil) in a pressure cooker. Prepare tempering by adding mustard seeds and cumin seeds. Followed by add in asafoetida and few curry leaves.
- Next add in chopped onion and saute until soft.
- Add in mixed vegetables of your choice.
- Fry everything together for a minute.
- Then add in roasted and rinsed rice. Give a quick mix.
- Add in saarina pudi or rasam powder.
- Also add in 3 cups of water and a big pinch of asafoetida. I have used Sona masuri rice and hence used 3 cups of water. You can add upto 3.5 cups of water as thic recipe can take more water.
- Add in salt as per your taste.
- Add in tamarind juice. Adjust the quantity as per your taste.
- Also add in jaggery. Don't skip jaggery but adjust it as per your taste. Mix everything well and bring it to boil.
- Close the lid and cook by making 2 whistles.
- Open the lid, once the pressure subsides.
- Mix well, to it with chopped coriander leaves and serve it hot.
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