Atukula upma ( Poha upma)

• Atukula (poha/Avalaki) upma is very common tiffin (breakfast) item in Karnataka. The first time I tasted this was in my in-laws house. I am not sure if Andhra people do this upma or not, but my mom never made this. I loved it the very first time I tasted it. All I can say is simplicity at its best.

• Its a very simple recipe which can be whipped up in less than ten minutes. Ultra satisfying and always comes in handy for a quick fix meal.

Recipe:

Poha (Atukulu/Avalaki) - 2 cups

Medium onion- 1

Peanuts about 10

green chille- 4

few curry leaves

coriander leaves

lemon juice and salt.

• In a skillet add a tablespoon of oil followed by mustard seeds. When mustard starts to dance around add the peanuts, half teaspoon each of chana dal and urad dal. When slightly brown add the green chille and curry leaves. Then add the onions, a pinch of salt, turmeric and cook till onion becomes soft.

• While the onion is cooking take the poha under the cold water and rinse it of twice. Put the poha immediately in the collander and drain the excess water.

• Once the onions are soft add the poha, followed by salt. Reduce the heat to low and cook the poha for five to seven minutes. Once done add some lemon juice and chopped coriander.

NOTE:

Its important to use thick poha for this recipe, if not poha will become mushy.

Stuffed aloo baji in a croissant

• I have had the above picture in flick r photos for about three months now. I uploaded it thinking i will post the recipe soon.

• But i kept postponing it. Few of my readers have asked me that they could not find the recipe. I am sorry about that. Finally i am posting the recipe today.

• Life has been quite busy recently and blogging had definitely taken a back seat. I will try to post atleast a couple of recipes in a month. Fingers crossed……

• Coming to the recipe- I just used the store bought croissant dinner rolls, stuffed them with potato curry and baked them in the oven for few minutes.

Recipe:

• Pillsbury reduced fat croissant dinner rolls- 1 pack
• Potato curry (For the recipe, click here)

• The croissant dough which i bought come in a tin. When you open it, you will find dough in the form of a square shape. It has some dots on the dough, just cut the dough following the dots and you will end up with eight traingle shaped dough.

• Now fill little bit of potato curry in the center of the dough. Start rolling from one end to the other end. Now put the croissants in a baking sheet and bake for 10 to 12 minutes depending upon your oven temperature.
• Can be served with hot and sweet tomato sauce, found in the Indian stores.

NOTE:

1. Croissant dinner rolls are found in any American supermarkets here in the U.S.
2. Make the potato curry little bit more spicy than usual because croissant is buttery and mild. So to compliment that you need to have the curry little spicy.
3. Put a good amount of curry inside the dough, because when it bakes the croissant puffs up.

• For a sweeter version, instead of potato curry i put few chocolate chips( about 10 ) and few walnuts pieces.