By Niveditha Kalyanaraman
November 16th, 2023
This recipe is perfect for those days when the time is pressing or when you want a light yet delicious meal. You can prepare this sevai for any meal, be it breakfast, lunch, evening tiffin or dinner even. It's a gluten free south indian recipe served with chutney and coffee. Here's the recipe for Lemon Semiya Upma.
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1 cup Semiya / Vermicelli (broken into ½ inch pieces and roasted to golden brown) 1 tsp coconut oil ½ tsp mustard seeds 8 curry leaves ½ red onion chopped 3 Thai green chillies chopped 2 cups water salt to taste 2 Tbsp lemon juice ¼ cup grated fresh coconut
Sputter mustard seeds and curry leaves in oil and add onions and chopped up green chillies. Once the onions start becoming translucent, add water and salt. Bring the water to a boil.
Add the roasted vermicelli, reduce the heat and let it cook and absorb all the water. Once it starts looking like cooked noodles, stir well, add the lemon juice and the grated coconut. Give it a quick stir again. Remove from heat.
Serve hot with coconut chutney or any other chutney of your choice along with some piping hot South Indian style filter coffee.
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