Warm, richly spiced, and built for a satisfying meal, dalia upma recipe | broken wheat upma | godhi upma or godhuma upma is a vegetarian south india breakfast made with oil, mustard, and urad dal in about 25 minutes. The recipe lays out the ingredients and each cooking step clearly, so you can adjust seasoning, texture, and serving size for your own kitchen.
Recipe Snapshot
- Prep time: 5 minutes
- Cook time: 20 minutes
- Total time: 25 minutes
- Yield: 3 Servings
- Category: Breakfast
- Cuisine: south india
Ingredients
- 4 tsp oil
- 1 tsp mustard
- 1 tsp urad dal
- ½ tsp cumin / jeera
- few curry leaves
- 1 dried red chilli
- 8 whole cashew / kaju
- ½ onion (finely chopped)
- 2 green chilli (slit)
- 1 inch ginger (chopped)
- 1 tomato (chopped)
- 2 tbsp carrot (chopped)
- ¼ potato (chopped)
- 2 tbsp peas
- 5 beans (chopped)
- ¼ tsp turmeric
- ¾ tsp salt
- 1 cup bansi rava / broken wheat / dalia / godhuma nooka / samba rava
- 3 cup water
Method
- firstly, in a large kadai heat 4 tsp oil and add 1 tsp mustard, 1 tsp urad dal, ½ tsp cumin, few curry leaves, 1 dried red chilli and 8 whole cashews.
- saute and splutter on medium flame.
- now add ½ onion, 2 green chilli and 1 inch ginger. saute well.
- further add 1 tomato, 2 tbsp carrot, ¼ potato, 2 tbsp peas and 5 beans.
- also, add ¼ tsp turmeric and ¾ tsp salt.
- cover and cook for 5 minutes.
- now add 1 cup broken wheat rava (bansi rava) and roast on low flame for 5 minutes.
- pour 3 cup boiling water on roasted rava keeping the flame on low.
- cover and cook for 2 minutes on high flame.
- finally, serve mixed vegetable dalia upma / broken wheat upma hot along with kara chutney.
Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note
Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.
