Puli Upma Recipe - Tamarind & Rice Rava Upma

Puli Upma Recipe is a tangy upma recipe that is essentially tangy and spicy rice rava upma flavoured with tamarind.

Akila Subramanian
Puli Upma Recipe - Tamarind & Rice Rava Upma
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Puli Upma Recipe is a traditional South Indian Snack time recipe that can also be had for breakfast as well, like most other upma recipes.

This recipe tastes and feels like a union of puliyogare and upma.

Serve Puli Upma Recipe along with Green Coriander and Coconut Chutney followed by a hot cuppa Kumbakonam Filter Coffee Recipe for a complete South Indian breakfast. 

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Course: Snack
Diet: Gluten Free
Equipments Used: Hard Anodised Kadai (Wok)
Prep in

15 M

Cooks in

15 M

Total in

30 M

Makes:

2 Servings

Ingredients

  • 1/3 cup Rice , coarsely ground
  • Tamarind , a small lemon sized ball, soaked in a cup of warm water
  • 1- 1 1/4 cups Water
  • 10 Curry leaves
  • 2 Dry Red Chillies , broken to 2
  • 1/4 teaspoon Asafoetida (hing)
  • 2 teaspoons Oil
  • 1 teaspoon Mustard seeds (Rai/ Kadugu)
  • Salt , to taste

How to make Puli Upma Recipe - Tamarind & Rice Rava Upma

  1. To prepare Puli Upma Recipe wash the rice and spread it over a muslin cloth to dry.

  2. Coarse grind the rice into rava.

  3. Meanwhile, soak tamarind in water and set aside for 5 minutes. Squeeze out the pulp and strain the clear liquid. Set aside until use.

  4. Heat oil in a thick bottomed kadai on medium heat, add the mustard seeds and let it splutter, add curry leaves, dry red chillies and hing.

  5. Stir in the rice rava and add tamarind water. Cook over low heat stirring continuously.

  6. Mix in the salt once the puli-upma starts to thicken.

  7. Cook until the tamarind upma mixture comes together.

  8. Serve Puli Upma Recipe along with Green Coriander and Coconut Chutney followed by a hot cuppa Kumbakonam Filter Coffee Recipe for a complete South Indian breakfast.

Puli Upma Recipe - Tamarind & Rice Rava Upma is part of the Recipe Contest: Lost Recipes From Ancestral Kitchens