Vegetable Rice Sevai Upma

Ingredients

• Rice Sevai - 2 cups
• Carrots - 1/4 cup (small pieces)
• Peas - 1/4 cup
• Corn - 1/4 cup
• Raw Mango - 1/4 piece (grated or cut into thin lengthy pieces) (optional)
• Green Chillies - 3 (chopped finely)
• Urud dhal - 2 tsp
• Bengal gram dhal - 2 tsp
• Mustard - a pinch
• Salt - as per taste
• Oil - 3 to 4 tsp
• Curry Leaves - few
• Coriander leaves - few for garnishing
• Hot water - 3 cups
  
  
  

Method

• In a large bowl, add little salt and rice sevai and pour the hotwater on it till it gets soaked well and cover with a lid and leave it for 4 to 5 mts.
• It becomes soft and filter the water from it and keep the rice sevai aside.
• In a pan, add oil, mustard, urud dhall, bengal gram dhall and fry for few minutes.
• Add curry leaves and green chillies to it.
• Now add the vegetables - carrot, peas and corn and fry them nicely.
• After the carrot becomes soft, add the grated mango pieces and just fry for an minute.
• Mix the rice sevai now with this and mix well and cook for few minutes adding salt.
• Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot.

Note:

• Adding mango is optional.
• Do not add the mango pieces along with other veggies, since it gets cooked easily and you cannot get the crunchy taste.
• You can add any veggies of your choice.

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