Welcome to Upma

by **upma** » Sun May 25, 2003 3:36 pm

Welcome upma pesarattu. Thank you, thank you!!

by **Smocking Rock** » Sun May 25, 2003 8:28 pm

I hate Upma, eeeeyyyyyyaaaaa. I don\'t know on what purpose this room was created, but why don\'t we discuss about the various \"tiffins\" available.

by **upma** » Mon May 26, 2003 9:55 am

do u like pesarattu ? i like very much. I think people hate the food that their mother cooks the worst ;-)

u can come to my house sometime , ok ? :-)

btw, i am a new member to fullhyd.com, i have welcomed myself !!

by **neeraja** » Mon May 26, 2003 1:10 pm

Welcome Upma, I love upma, easy to make,and very tasty also... comes very handy if you are not in a mood to cook,I prefer upma any time.. even today lunch i have bought upma only.,.,

by BM » Mon May 26, 2003 4:46 pm

WELCOME AT fullhyd.

by b. » Mon May 26, 2003 5:34 pm

I love the MLA Peseretu at that place opp to the graveyard, good stuff.

by **Smocking Rock** » Mon May 26, 2003 5:43 pm

Thats so sweet of you Upmaji, I will make out some time, if you invite me. And welcome to fullhyd!!! By the way ru a good cook

by **upma pesarattu** » Mon May 26, 2003 5:58 pm

is anybody there from vijayawada? punugulu excellent evening time-pass snacks. paani poori, bhel puri etc anni aamada dooram vuntayi and why is that many times people show more liking to chutney than the actual tiffins ?

by **upma pesarattu** » Mon May 26, 2003 6:00 pm

and sure man Rock, if we meet in a gettogether or somewhere

by **Smocking Rock** » Mon May 26, 2003 6:35 pm

Without chutney it\'s like \"Life with out love\". Hope some users of fullhyd try to meet at one place and arrange a get-together. And what is this punugulu, how is it prepared.

by **Anil** » Tue May 27, 2003 12:16 am

Upma and easy to make! Unbelievable! Neeraja, please pass on the recipe. You will be doing a great favor to this brahmachari. My mom says, the \"rava\" and water ratio should be 1:2. And I follow it so unscrupulously. But alas, my upma always ends up like fevicol!!!

by **upma pesarattu** » Tue May 27, 2003 10:49 am

heat the rava a bit to get a higher temperature and slowly pour into the heated water while stirring, dont stop stirring !! u see the chemistry of cooking says that both rava and water should have nearly same temperature or ull make balls !! the size of balls is proportional to temperature difference !!

by **neeraja** » Tue May 27, 2003 1:41 pm

Hi anil,

first fry about 1 glass of rava in the hot tava, until its golden brown....remove it and keep it in a plate. now put 4 tbls spoon of oil in the tava, garnish with mustard, kadalai parapu,then put in cut onions, green chilles 3 nos nicely cut, ginger pices few,add salt 1/3 tea spoon (optional only) finely sliced carrot,potato,beans,or green peas.....

After the onion is cooked nicely, pour two tumblers of water and make it boil nicely, now add curry leaves,now add the rava into the bolining water and stir it until it comes out fluffy, you can also add little coconut oil that will give you a wonderful taste, keep stirring until all the water dries out, now it will be nice and non sticky...

all the best, BON apetite...

by b. » Tue May 27, 2003 8:41 pm

Hi Neeraja, nice to see you in the kitchen. by the way my upma includes kaju and badam at home. Oh did you ever get the Qubus, how was it.?

by **Anil** » Wed May 28, 2003 3:59 am

Thanks Neeraja. Will try this weekend and let you know. But one thing I wasn\'t doing earlier was frying the rava before. May be that was the reason for the gummy upma!

by **neeraja** » Wed May 28, 2003 10:52 am

Hi B, yaa nice you can also add kaju or badam to uppama it would be very nice.. well yes i did get Kubus, it was superby, but the problem i am not able to get them regularly cause of the distance... i wish they open up in secunderabad also

by **Smocking Rock** » Wed May 28, 2003 6:34 pm

Hey anybody tried this \"Kulcha\" i found it very tasty, u can try it at Anand Vihar in Begumpet.

by **14 year old\'s MOM** » Wed May 28, 2003 7:00 pm

an extremly simple method of making upma: Ingredients: 1 cup of ravva, 3 cups of water, 1/2 tsp salt, kadipatha/karvepaku, cut grren chillies or 1-2 red chillies, seeds for bagaara/talimpu (mustard seeds 1/4 tsp , methi seeds a pinch, dhanya seeds 1/4 th tsp), chanadal/chnaigapapu and udathdal/minapapu 1 tsp each

METHOD: take a non-stick or thick bottomed utensil, heat ghee, add bagara seeds and let them crackle,add chillies and add kadipatha, chanadal and udath dal let them fry to light brown, add water (rava:water 1:3) and add salt. Once it comes to boil remove the utensil off the stove and begin to add the ravva slowly mixing constantly until u add the entire ravva.Do not panic, just keep mixing until all the ravva gets mixed and then place it on the stove simmering it until all the water evaporates.

Once u master this, u can add whatever u want to during the bagaraa or in the boiling water. various stuff that I get to add are finely cut ginger, cut onions, cut kotmir ( it tastes more kotmir if u add kotmir in bagaraa!), grated carrot, cut beans, cut tomatoes, fried kaaju, cut badam.

My 14 year old son cooks this and makes it tastier each time, sure u too can try this

have fun.

by **Smocking Rock** » Wed May 28, 2003 7:06 pm

Hey Momma, that was too good!!!

by **Smocking Rock** » Wed May 28, 2003 7:16 pm

and thankyou....

by **upma pesarattu** » Wed May 28, 2003 7:20 pm

i sure can stopping buying instant upma mixes, cant help buying instant idli and dosa mixes though !! Rock: punugulu are something like mysoor bonda, but small in size, smaller than a 50 paisa coin, different composition though and chutney they sell is excellent !! I envy u guys who are there in India enjoying the food !! its been ages or it feels likes its been ages :-(

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by **14 year old\'s MOM** » Wed May 28, 2003 7:22 pm

u r welcome sonnyboy ! I do know what the bachelors go through while they are on their own.. u guys shud become independent with cooking too, sonnyboy. It makes ur life that much more easier, bete. what w/ feminist movement and stuff.

by **coolgyan** » Wed May 28, 2003 9:54 pm

u are right momma, i am stuck here in oz and i never cooked in my life now i know when i have to cook for myself... i am afraid of my own cooking... but please dont start the feminist thing.. to see the equality of females and how _they(females)_ should actually work! please step outside india. now we can start all over that in india women are not give equal rights and all that... but i think the discussion is of upma so lets keep it at that..

by **coolgyan** » Wed May 28, 2003 9:55 pm

u are right momma, i am stuck here in oz and i never cooked in my life now i know when i have to cook for myself... i am afraid of my own cooking... but please dont start the feminist thing.. to see the equality of females and how _they(females)_ should actually work! please step outside india. now we can start all over that in india women are not give equal rights and all that... but i think the discussion is of upma so lets keep it at that..

by **14 year old\'s MOM** » Wed May 28, 2003 10:41 pm

oh, yes, why not stick to upma/pessaratu on this board, u r so right. and oh, by the way I live in san jose, california. A design-engineer.. been one for the past 15 years. So \'we\' sure do know the ups and downs of juggling between home, kids, workplace and all the stuff that goes with these and we enjoy each day.

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