Healthy Vegetable Upma

Adding some carrots, capsicums along with onions and potatoes make the usual upma more delicious.
In winters, you can can pep up your platter with a veritable colourful course as a variety of vegetables are available to you. So you can add more veggies like carrots, capsicums along with potatoes and onions to make your upma tastier.

Ingredients:

• Suji - 200 gms
• Onion- 1
• Potato- 1
• Capsicum- 1
• Tomato - 1 (optional)
• Carrot- 1
• Salt- to taste
• Mustard seeds-1/2 tsp
• Cumin seeds-1/2 tsp
• Curry leaves - 4-5 leaves
• Green chilies- 4-5
• Ginger - very small piece
• Red chilies(whole) - 2-3
• Oil- 50-100ml
• Chana dal-12/tsp
• Urad dal-1/2tsp

Method:

1. Take the oil in a pan and once the oil is hot add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, chopped green chilies, chopped ginger, whole red chilies, chana dal and urad dal.
2. Add curry leaves and stir the mixture. Add chopped onions, diced potato, diced tomato, diced carrot and capsicum pieces to it and stir well.
3. Add salt to taste followed by 250ml of water.
4. Put a lid on it and allow the vegetables to cook.
5. Roast the suji for two minutes. Once the vegetables are cooked, see if you need more water. If you feel a little bit of water would be required, then add some water to the vegetable gravy and bring it to near boil. Then add the roasted suji.
   Important: Do not pour the suji at one go. Just keep on adding little quantities and simultaneously stir the contents so that the rawa or the suji mixes evenly.
6. Let the rawa cook for five minutes on a low flame.
7. After that, transfer the contents onto a bowl and serve it hot.