Govakona Upma

Govakona upma is a delicious broken wheat rava upma made with bansi rava/ broken wheat rava and can be served as a breakfast dish.Broken wheat is called govakono in konkani.

The following ingredients are needed to prepare govakona upma.

Ingredients:-

Bansi Rava     - 2 cup (broken wheat rava)
Green chillies. - 4
Curry leaves.   -1 spring
Mustard seeds. -1tsp
Urad dal.          -1tsp
Cumin seeds.    - 1/2tsp
Water.                - 7 cup
Salt.                   - to taste.
Grated coconut .-2tbsp
Coconut oil.       - 2 tsp
Ghee.                  - 2tsp

Instructions:-

1). Heat 1tsp ghee in a pan and roast bansi rava /broken wheat rava on low flame.

2). Wash and half slit green chillies and keep aside.

Method:-

1). Heat coconut oil in a pan and add urad dal and saute well.When urad dal starts to change its colour splutter mustard seeds and cumin seeds and saute well.Add curry leaves and saute well.

2). Pour water into the pan and boil well.Add required salt and mix well.

3). Add ghee roasted bansi rava into the boiling water. Mix well and cook rava till the water evaporates.Stir rava continuously without any lumps using a flat spatula to prevent sticking rava to the bottam of the pan.

4). Add 2 tbsp of grated coconut into the pan and mix with the cooked rava and switch off the flame.

5). Add 1tsp ghee into the pan and mix the govakona upma.

A tasty govakona upma/ broken wheat rava upma is ready to serve hot.