Simple, practical, and full of everyday flavour, Jowar upma recipe | Jonna upma | Jowar recipes is a South Indian main made with simple everyday ingredients in about 520 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: 480 minutes
- Cook time: 40 minutes
- Total time: 520 minutes
- Yield: 2
- Category: Main Course
- Cuisine: South Indian
Ingredients
- ¾ cup jowar
- 1 cup water (to pressure cook)
- oil (as needed)
- ½ to ¾ tsp cumin (/ jeera)
- ½ to ¾ tsp mustard
- 1 to 1 ½ tsp urad dal
- 1 pinch hing
- 1 onion (, small, sliced)
- 2 to 3 green chilies (, slit)
- 1 tsp ginger (, chopped (optional))
- ¾ cup mixed veggies (, chopped finely)
- salt (as needed)
- turmeric (as needed)
- ¼ cup fresh grated coconut (as desired)
Method
- Wash and soak jowar for at least 8 hours. Drain and add 1 cup water and pressure cook for 2 whistles on medium flame with little turmeric. 1 more whistle on a low flame.
- When the pressure settles down, fluff up.
- Heat a pan with oil, allow cumin and mustard to crackle. Add urad dal, saute until golden.
- Fry chilies, onions and ginger.
- When the onions turn soft, add mixed veggies and saute for 2 mins.
- Cover and cook until soft done. If needed sprinkle some water and cook.
- Add salt and turmeric. Stir.
- Add cooked jowar, coconut and mix.
- Stir well and saute for 2 mins.
- Add lemon juice and coriander leaves.
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.
