{"id":6,"date":"2010-07-10T14:41:46","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T14:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chalakanth.wordpress.com\/?p=4"},"modified":"2013-04-20T23:13:07","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T23:13:07","slug":"cracked-wheat-upma-first-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seonthemon.com\/wp351\/2010\/07\/10\/cracked-wheat-upma-first-attempt\/","title":{"rendered":"Cracked Wheat Upma &#8211; First attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Starting out<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Using the recipe at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/archives\/2005\/04\/20\/upma\/\">Mahanandi<\/a> as a guide.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing different from what we usually do for upma. \u00a0Nothing different to account for the cracked wheat &#8211; heavier, larger, less processed grains. \u00a04 cups of water though, for a cup of cracked wheat. \u00a0Regular Rava does not need this much.<\/p>\n<p>I will fry the cracked wheat a bit &#8230;. \u00a0Also will add roasted peanuts &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Here goes nothing.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>The proof of the pudding<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Just finished the making, and the eating. \u00a0 Very promising. \u00a0Passed the smoke test &#8211; I could eat it without any accompaniments.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Ingredients<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>I used the cracked wheat from the Indian store &#8211; Swad brand.<\/li>\n<li>One medium-sized yellow onion.<\/li>\n<li>One\u00a0Roma tomato<\/li>\n<li>All of one green pepper (only it was red)<\/li>\n<li>3\/4 inch diameter, and length, ginger, chopped into thin strips<\/li>\n<li>a handful of peanuts, which I roasted.<\/li>\n<li>Salt, and Olive oil<\/li>\n<li>I did not have any of the dhals for seasoning, nor even cumin. \u00a0Only had mustard seeds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Method<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I followed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/archives\/2005\/04\/20\/upma\/\">Mahanandi<\/a> recipe pretty closely. \u00a0I did not roast the cracked wheat. And I was not my usual timid self with the salt.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Aftermath<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>One cup of uncooked cracked wheat, produced an astounding amount of upma &#8211; enough for a light breakfast for 4 to 6 people. \u00a0How economical! \u00a0Perfect for people that have to watch the budget &#8211; cheap, voluminous, and healthy.<\/p>\n<p>For one person, I would just use half a cup. \u00a0Throw vegetables in, and even this will make enough for a 3 light meals, I think.<\/p>\n<p>What will this taste like cold? \u00a0How to best heat it? \u00a0Don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>The grains, when cooked, were huge. \u00a0Very rice like. \u00a0I think this is a viable substitute for rice. \u00a0I am thinking we could even serve it at dinner, like they do\u00a0jeera rice. \u00a0How to make jeera cracked wheat?<\/p>\n<p>Next time, I will try adding garlic, and maybe spinach or methi. \u00a0This will make it more palau like, and perhaps more appropriate for lunch, or dinner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting out Using the recipe at Mahanandi as a guide. Nothing different from what we usually do for upma. \u00a0Nothing different to account for the cracked wheat &#8211; heavier, larger, less processed grains. \u00a04 cups of water though, for a cup of cracked wheat. \u00a0Regular Rava does not need this much. I will fry the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seonthemon.com\/wp351\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seonthemon.com\/wp351\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seonthemon.com\/wp351\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seonthemon.com\/wp351\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seonthemon.com\/wp351\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.seonthemon.com\/wp351\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/www.seonthemon.com\/wp351\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seonthemon.com\/wp351\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seonthemon.com\/wp351\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seonthemon.com\/wp351\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}