Yellow corn rava uppma (manjal cholla rava uppma)

Yellow corn rava Uppma (manjal cholla rava uppma) - Preparation time 25 mins

As I am gluten sensitive i started experimenting all the millet variety recipes in my cooking. I thought of making yellow maize rava upma as we used to make wheat rava. It came out well and tasty. The chollam will have slight sweet taste so we have to making little spicy by adding more ginger and green chili.
Surely everyone in your family will love the healthy manjal cholla rava upma. We are adding vegetable like carrot and onion to make it more color full. You can also add fresh green peas if available.

Ingredients:-
Yellow corn rava - 1 cup
Water - 2 and 3/4 cup
Carrot - 1 (chopped to small cube)
Small Onion - 10 (chopped to small strings)
Red/Green chili - 2 finely chopped
Curry leaves - 2 strings (finely chopped)
Sesame oil - 5 to 6 tbsp
Ginger - finely chopped 1 or ½ tbsp
Mustard seed - ¼ tsp
Urad dhal - 1 tbsp
Asafoetida - a pinch
Bengal gram - 1 tsp
Salt - to taste

Preparation method:-
In a pan add oil, mustard, urad dhal and fry till mustard splutters and dhal turns golden brown.

Add curry leaves, chili, ginger, onion, carrot,salt and fry till the color changes slightly. 
Now add the yellow corn rava and fry for 5 mins.

To this mixture add the water.

Transfer this to a vessel and pressure cook the yellow rava upma for 5 whistle and in low flame for 10 mins

Serve hot yellow rava upma with spicy green chili and coconut chutney or pickle. This is upma is gluten free and healthy.