🇮🇳 Indian Vegetarian

Vermicelli Upma

Name: Vermicelli Upma
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: to taste Salt; 1 Onion; 1 Green Chili; 2 tbsp Ghee; 1 tsp Mustard Seeds; 1 sprig Curry Leaves; 1 Lemon; 1.5 cups Vermicelli

🇮🇳 Indian

The 15-minute breakfast that powers half of India — soft, lemony, tempered with mustard and curry leaves. Gives you a proper meal in 20 minutes.

Prep 10 min Cook 10 min Serves 3 Easy

Ingredients

Saltto taste
Onion1
Green Chili1
Ghee2 tbsp
Mustard Seeds1 tsp
Curry Leaves1 sprig
Lemon1
Vermicelli1.5 cups

Instructions

1
Dry-roast the vermicelli until it smells toasty, then set aside.
2
In ghee, pop mustard seeds, then fry onion, green chili and curry leaves to soft gold.
3
Fold in the vermicelli with salt — gently, so it stays whole.
4
Pour in double its volume of hot water, stir once, cover, and cook 8 minutes on low.
5
Finish with lemon, cilantro and an extra spoon of ghee.

Chef's tip

Everything in the tiffin family is eaten hot; time your serving, not your cooking.

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