Recipe: Tasty Quinoa Upma
Quinoa Upma. Tips to make quinoa upma Ratio: Quinoa to water ratio is the key for a fluffy quinoa upma. This gives me good results without making it mushy. Take ½ cup quinoa in a fine strainer and rinse very well in running water.
Tastes great with my favorite ginger cardamom chai! Made with quinoa grains and veggies, this tasty upma is made in a typical South Indian way. It has a tadka of mustard seeds and curry leaves, along with some urad and moong dal. You can cook Quinoa Upma using 0 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Quinoa Upma
You can veggies of your choice to make this recipe extra flavourful. Serve it hot with coconut chutney or some pickle and enjoy a nutritious breakfast. Temper the spices in hot oil, cook the onions and toast the cashews, add other veggies, add washed quinoa, water and salt and cook until done. You can also use cooked quinoa or millet and mix in the cooked and spiced veggies.
Quinoa Upma instructions
- Wash the quinoa and keep aside. Take a pan heat the oil once heated add cumin mustard seeds and urad daal.
- Once crackle add curry leaves and chopped onions sauté for few seconds also add grated ginger.
- Add all chopped veggies and sauté for few seconds.
- Now add 2 cups of water and boil for few seconds. Now add the washed quinoa as well as salt and cook until all water is observed and the quinoa is cooked.
- Your healthy quinoa upma is ready garnish with coriander leaves..
Upma is can be made dryer if served as a side or wetter to serve on its own. To make quinoa upma, first wash the and drain the quinoa. Then make a tempering of oil and allow the mustard seeds to crackle. Once done, add little hing, green chillies, ginger and curry leaves and sauté for a few seconds. Similarly sauté the peanuts and onions also individually.
