UPMA KOZHAKATTAI

INGREDIENTS:

1 Cup rice
2 Green Chillies
Ginger
Mustard , Cumin seeds ,Urad dal
2 tbsp oil
Salt for taste
Water 3 cups
Asafoetida .

METHOD :

* Wash the rice and let it be dried on a towel .
* Grind the rice coarsly .
* Chop the Chili and ginger finely .
* Heat oil in a kadai and splutter the mustard seeds
* Fry the urad dal and cumin seeds .
* Now add the chilli and ginger pieces and fry for a min .
* Now add the 2 1/2 cups of water and let it boil .
* Add the salt and asafoetida .
* After a min add the grinded rice and stir continously .
* Let the rice cook in the kadai . ( HAve to stir very oftenly )
* Add the remaining water if needed atlast .
* when fully cooked , switch off the stove and let it cool.
* After 1/2 an hour make oval shape balls out of the rice mixture and steam it for 4-5 mins.
* Serve hot with Coconut chutney .

Note :

Without making balls and steaming , this can be had as upma and we call it as " arisi upma "