Vegetable Upma is a nutritious meal that is easy to cook, healthy to eat and delicious to taste.

Watch this video and learn to make vegetable upma.

Vegetable Upma

Indian Food- Vegetable Upma - Ingredients in This Balanced Diet

Main Ingredients:

Semolina, Vegetables (beans, carrot, tomatoes, potato, peas), cooking oil, clarified butter (optional)

Garnishing Ingredients (optional):

Coconut, Curry leaves, Coriander leaves, red chillies, green chillies, mustard sees, two dals (white lentil and chickpea)

Listen to the Tamil words for these ingredients

I think you should read Tamil stories and ebooks while relishing this vegetable upma.

Did Your Dosa Get Stuck?

Watch the funny video. Don’t worry if your dosa gets stuck.

Here are five things you can do:

1. If you are using instant dosa mix, it is stick proof. Even a child will be able to get the dosa off the pan in a jiffy. But if it gets stuck you can add a bit more of the mix and make it thicker. This will help you easily flip the dosa.

2. If you are making dosa in the usual way, the long process of soaking, grinding and fermenting, add a few tbs of all round flour. It is better to add rice flour but you can add your regular flour. No problems. Dosa will come off in good healthy shape.

3. Dip the spatula in cooking oil. Pass it through the edges of the dosa. Slowly and gentlly relieve the dosa that is attached to the pan with ever lasting love :). Then fold it in one sweep and flip it. You have done what the usual Indian parents do when they catch their daughters deep in love.

4. Cut an onion in the middle. Give the pan a nice massage with the onion and it will be ready to accept the next ladle full of dosa batter and be ready to let go of your dosa without a murmur.

5. Roll a tissue paper into a ball, dip it in water, squeeze it out and then rub the top of the pan.

If none of this works, post a comment here. And I will tell you what more you can try.

I read a good review of Indian restaurants in the United States and wanted to share it with you:

“Indian restaurants in the United States tend to fall into one of four main categories. The largest category serves a pan-Indian cuisine that, while not associated with any particular region of India, has become the de facto standard — samosas, chicken tikka masala, lamb vindaloo, etc. The next largest, and growing, category is the first category’s poor relation — pan-Indian food as fast food. The third category, high-end, creative Indian food, sometimes focusing on a particular region, is also growing, but remains a small segment of the market, primarily focused in a few major urban areas. The fourth is vegetarian”.

Read the complete post The Jewel.

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If you want to make dosa the usual way, you have to prepare a day in advance. In fact, it is two days if you include the fermentation process.

You need to soak rice and dal, grind it and leave it for fermentation.

But making dosa with instant mix is child’s play. It takesa few minutes to make one dosa. No advanced preparation is necessary.

All you do is to take two table spoons of the mix, add four table spoons of water and cook on a pan with two tea spoon cooking oil.

Everything including salt is added to instant dosa mix.

Even if you have never made dosa before you will be able to do it in minutes.