Looking for something wholesome and nutritious to start your day? Add a healthy twist to your breakfast with this delicious Jowar Upma cooked with lots of veggies. Gluten-free and high in protein, jowar or sorghum is a great alternative for wheat in this popular breakfast dish.
Upma may find its origins in the South Indian cuisine but it is a popular breakfast dish all across the country. In fact, I was pleasantly surprised to see it as a breakfast option on one of my recent international flights too! Usually upma is made either with wheat semolina or daliya, which is commonly referred to as broken wheat.
In this recipe, instead of wheat daliya, I have used jowar daliya. While broken wheat is also healthy, jowar daliya or split sorghum is gluten free, rich in fibre and full of vitamins and minerals. With loads of veggies, this upma gives a nourishing start to the day. You can add as many or as little vegetables to the dish. Choose seasonal vegetables of your choice. This recipe is also great to hide not-so-popular vegetables, especially with picky eaters. I also added some bottle gourd in my mix.
Jowar is also a high protein grain, making it a great choice for breakfast cereals. I also use the flour to make gluten-free jowar rotis. As the awareness about gluten-free grains is increasing, more and more traditional millet crops are coming back in the market, providing us with healthier choices. Bajra, jowar, and ragi are the most popular Indian millets.
Many people think it is difficult to cook with millets but there are easy millet recipes like Veg Millet Pulao, where I use little millets instead of rice or this upma recipe, where I have substituted wheat daliya with jowar daliya.
Jowar Daliya Upma
Preparation: 10 mins | Cooking Time: 15 mins, serves two
Ingredients
1 cup — Jowar daliya (soaked for 30 mins)
1tbsp — Oil
A pinch — Asafoetida (hing)
2tsp — Mustard seeds (rai)
1 — Dried red chilli
8-10 — Curry leaves
1 — Green chilli, chopped
1 inch — Ginger, chopped
2 — Green onions, sliced
1 — Capsicum, chopped
½ cup — Bottle gourd (lauki), chopped
½ cup — Green peas, boiled
2 — Tomatoes, chopped
1 tsp — Turmeric powder
1 — Lime
Salt — To taste
Fresh coriander leaves — To garnish
Method
* Boil three cups of water in a deep pot. Drain the soaked jowar daliya and add salt to the boiling water. Mix, and let it cook on medium heat till the daliya is soft for about 10 minutes. The daliya will soak in most of the water and it will be a little wet and slushy.
* While the jowar is cooking, heat oil in a kadhai. Once the oil is hot add rai, hing, dried red chilli, and curry leaves. Sauté for a minute.
* Add the green chilli, ginger and onion. Mix well and cook for a minute.
* Next add bottle gourd, capsicum. Mix and cook for five minutes, till the vegetables start to soften.
* Add the boiled peas, tomatoes, turmeric and salt. Mix well and cook for a couple of minutes.
* Add the boiled jowar daliya and lime juice.
* Mix well and cook everything together for another minute.
* Garnish with fresh coriander and serve hot.
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