Oats Upma(Uppittu)

Ingredients:
2 cups of Oats
1 large Capsicum
1 large Onion
25 Beans
1/4 cup grated Coconut
2 - 3 Green Chillies
1 - 2 strands of Curry leaves
5 - 6 strands of Coriander leaves
Salt to taste
1/2 tsp Mustard seeds
1 tsp Bengal Gram seeds
1/2 tsp Black Gram seeds
5 - 6 tsp Oil
2 cups of Water

Recipe:
Put oats in a thick bottomed vessel and fry it for around 4-5 mins in medium flame until it turns golden in colour.

Chop beans and coriander leaves into small pieces as shown in the picture below. Chop onion and capsicum into medium sized thin pieces as shown in the picture below. Cut green chillies into two halves.

Put mustard seeds, black gram seeds, bengal gram seeds and oil in a thick bottomed vessel/pan. Once it starts spluttering, add curry leaves, green chillies, onion, salt and saute them for about 2-3 mins. Add chopped beans and saute them for about 4-5 mins in medium flame. Add chopped capsicum, saute and cook them for about 5-6 mins.

Add fried oats and mix.

Add 2 cups of water and cook them in low flame by covering a lid until all the water content gets evaporated. Keep stirring the Uppittu once in 2 mins.

Add chopped coriander leaves and mix well. Keep the Uppittu in low flame for about 2-3 mins.

Mix well and serve hot. The above mentioned ingredients will serve 2-3 plates of Uppittu.

Corn Flakes Unde(Laddu)

Ingredients:
2 cups raw Corn Flakes or 5 cups of mashed fried Corn Flakes
1/2 cup Sesame seeds / Bili Ellu
2 cups broken Peanuts / Shenga / Nelakadle
2.5 cups Chikki Jaggary / Antu Bella
5 - 6 Cardamoms / Elakki / Elachi
1 Tbs Ghee
2 tsp Water

Recipe:

Keep oil in a thick bottomed vessel and heat. Fry the raw cornflakes in hot oil. Take them from the oil and put them in a tissue paper to absorb the oil content.



Dry roast the peanuts in a pan or microwave and keep them aside for about 20-30 mins. Remove the outer cover of peanuts and mash them as shown in the picture below. Mash the fried corn flakes as shown in the picture below. Put sesame seeds in a pan and fry them for around 4-5 mins in medium flame until they start spluttering.

Put 2 tsp of water and jaggary in a thick bottomed vessel and heat in low flame.

Keep stirring in low flame until the syrup is thick and sticky.

Add corn flakes, peanuts, sesame seeds, mashed cardamom seeds to the same vessel, mix it properly and transfer it to one plate.

Apply some ghee/rice flour to your palms and make small balls from the mixture. Once it is cooled to room temperature store it in an airtight container.