15 curry leaves. . 2 tablespoons oil. . 1 tablespoon ghee. . Salt to taste. To make upma use roasted or double roasted fine sooji. or upma rava also know Bombay rava. Even if you are using roasted sooji, always roast it for few …
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To begin making the Vegetable Rava Upma Recipe/ Sooji Upma, prep all the ingredients and keep aside. In a saucepan; boil 3 cups of water along with salt and a dash of sugar and set aside. Add the vegetables to this water and cook it until the sooji/rava gets roasted.
What vegetables you can add to upma? Otherwise you are free to add your choice of vegetables. But what goes best with rava or semolina is potatoes, cauliflower, peas, carrots and green beans. But you can add some more also like broccoli and bell peppers.
Finely chop 1 medium sized onion, 1 to 2 green chillies and 1 inch ginger and some coriander leaves. Also set aside the remaining ingredients. Heat a pan or kadai first. Add rava or cream of wheat. Begin to roast the rava. Stir often while roasting the rava. The rava or sooji grains should become fragrant and start to look dry, separate and crisp.
Add chopped onion, ginger paste, cashews, green chilies and fry till onion changes its color too. After 4-5 min adds all vegetables and chopped tomatoes. Mix well and stir for 2-3 mins. It will take 2-3 min till the tomato becomes mushy. Finally, add rava to the mixture.