Tomato upma

Tomato Upma - టమాటొ ఉప్మా

INGREDIENTS:

Semolina – 1.5 Cup (100ml Cup)

Tomatoes – 300gms

Water – 4 Cups (100ml Cup)

Green Chilies – 3 Or 5

Onion – 2

Curry Leaves – Few

Ginger –One Small Piece

Black Gram – 2.5tsps

Fenugreek Seeds – 2.5 Seeds

Cumin Seeds – 1/2tsp

Turmeric Powder – 1/6tsp

Mustard Seeds – 1.5tsp

Salt to Taste

Oil – 10tsps

Ghee – 1.5tsp

Cashew Nuts – 1.5tbsps

PROCEDURE:

Take 300 grams of tomatoes wash and clean them.  After chopping, keep the tomatoes aside.  Now, chop the onions finely after removing the peel.  Make chilies and ginger paste after washing and cleaning them.  Now, after chopping curry leaves, keep aside.

Take a pan heat and pour oil in it.  After getting oil hot, fry with cashew nuts till they change to brown.  After taking fried cashew nuts, and add the black gram and fenugreek seeds in the pan.  After seeds change their color, add cumin seeds and mustard seeds. Fry until seeds splutter.  Add chili-ginger paste and curry leaves (chopped ones).  Now mix with turmeric powder.  Start frying after adding chopped onions.  Now, cook by adding salt and chopped tomatoes.  Put a cover and cook until tomatoes become soft. Add a little more salt, and boil the mixture. While boiling, add ghee. Now, on low flame, add semolina little-by-little with vigorous stirring.  This way, add all of the semolina with well stirring.  By now, the mixture is watery, so put a cover and cook for five more minutes.  Take out the cover and mix once.  Now at this time, add fried cashew nuts with mixing.

Now, tasty Tomato Upma is ready to serve your family, friends, and relatives.