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Upma Basic Upma is very easy to make.This recipe is mainly popular in south Indian homes. Main ingredient in this recipe is Semolina or cream of wheat.It is a fine refined wheat. In india generally called refined Rava or Suji. Non refined whole wheat Rava also we will get in India. Here in this recipe i used refined wheat rava or suji or semolina. Ingredients for Upma: Semolina or Rava or Suji       1 glass  Water                                   2 glasses Bengal gram                         1 table spoon Black gram                          1 tabel spoon Mustard seeds                     1 tea spoon Cumin seeds                        1 tea spoon Cashew                               4 Ghee                                   1 tea spoon Vegetable oil                      2 table spoon Onions                               1 (cut in to small pieces) Green chillies                      2 (cut into small pieces Ginger                               small piece (cut

Ginger Chutney or Allam Pachadi is a chutney from the state of Andhra. Usually this chutney is very popular in all Andhra Pradesh homes. This chutney is served as a side dish with Pesarattu( green gram dosa), Vada, Idly or simply with curd rice. Ingredients: Whole Red chillies    5 Bengal gram             1 table spoon full Black gram               1 table spoon full Fenugreek seeds       1 tea spoon Cumin seeds             1 table spoon full Tamarind                  10g (soak in hot water) Ginger                       10g (clean and remove skin and cut into pieces) Sugar or jaggery       3 table spoon full  Turmeric                   1/2 tea spoon     Vegetable oil             1 table spoons Water                        1/2 cup Salt                            3 tea spoons Seasoning: Vegetable oil             1 table spoon Mustard seeds           1/2 tea spoon Cumin seeds               1/2 tea spoon Asafoteda                   1/2 tea spoon Method:

Pesarattu (Pesara means green gram ,attu means Dosa or crape or Pan cake)) is a delicacy from southern state of Andhra Pradesh break fast recipe).This delicious  Whole green gram Dosa is eaten  with ginger chutney(dip).Simply this Crispy Dosa enjoyed with cumin and ginger topping or onion and ginger and chillies topping.Today i am going to show your how to make Pesarattu (green gram dosa) seaoning with onion dices,ginger pieces,and green chilli pieces. Ingredients: Whole Green gram            200g (పెసలు) (2cups) Water                               400ml Salt                                  2 tea spoon  (according to taste you can add salt ) Ginger                              50g  (cut into small pieces) Onion                               2(cut into small pieces) Green chillies                    2 (cut into small pieces) cumin seeds                      1 table spoon Ghee                                 50g  Vegetable oil                    50ml Method:

Bhubaneswar   is the Capital City of Orissa, India. Here we can see beautiful archeological structures. Today I am posting some beautiful pictures of those structures in and around Bhubaneswar. Lingaraj Temple Lingaraj Temple's Entrance Mukteswar Temple A Beautifully sculptured Toran (entrance) Ram Mandir Old and beautiful Raja - Rani Temple Different view of Raja-Rani Temple Simply beautiful structures Main Entrance into the Raja-Rani temple A Crane near the Temple One more Crane  Orissa Village Art on the wall  Artistic carvings in Khanda Giri  and Udaya Giri Caves   One more Cave in Khanda Giri and Udaya Giri   A garden built between stones. River Mahanadi in Cuttack  River Mahanadi  Hot water springs near Bbubaneswar