Anita's breakfast

For breakfast one morning, Anita made us a traditional dish called "Upma" Its made from ground wheat and spices. The first picture shows the ingredients (and this is how she cooks, its not just for presentation) onions, potato, chillies, mustard seeds, black gram dal, bengal gram dal, curry leaves (picked from our backyard) coriander leaves and shaved coconut for garnish.

The first seven ingredients
are simmered in hot oil for
5-10min, then water is added.








Next the ground wheat (which was toasted prior to this) is added and simmered on low until it soaks up the all the flavored moisture.
Then the garnish of coconut and coriander is placed in the bottom of a small bowl, the Upma is placed on that, then you flip it upside down onto the plate. Yumm!!