Thinai Upma Recipe | Foxtail Millet Upma Recipe
Thinai upma or Millet upma recipe with step by step pictures. Foxtail Millet upma made using millets, vegetables, onions and spices.
Ingredients
- Thinai / Foxtail Millet - ½ cup
- Oil - 1 tsp
- Mustard Seeds / Kaduku - ½ tsp
- Urad dal / Ulundu Paruppu - ½ tsp
- Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam - ¼ tsp
- Curry leaves - 1 sprig
- Onion - 1 medium size chopped finely
- Green Chilli - 1 chopped finely
- Carrot - 1 chopped finely
- Coconut - ¼ cup grated
- Water - 2 cups
- Salt to taste
- Coriander leaves a handful chopped finely
Instructions
- Heat oil in a pan, Add in mustard, urad dal and cumin seeds, add curry leaves as well and let it splatter.
- In goes onions, chillies and saute for a min.
- Add in carrots and cook for couple of mins.
- Pour in thinai and stir well. Add water, salt and bring it to a boil. Cover and simmer for 15 mins till it is cooked.
- Add coconut and coriander leaves and mix well.
- Serve.