Name: Uggani bajji, Puffed rice upma recipe by Aruna Saraschandra at BetterButter
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: Ingredients to prepare uggani; Puffed Rice - 1 big bowl; Onion - 1 cup; Tomatoes - 3; Green chillies; Roasted chana dal powder - 1 small cup; Ginger -1 tsp; garlic - 10 cloves; Turmeric powder - 1 pinch; Lemon - 1; Mustard seeds - 1 tsp; cumin seed - 1 tsp; curry leaves - 1 tsp; coriander leaves - 1 tsp; oil - 5 tsp; salt as per taste; Ingredients to prepare bajji; Gram flour/besan - 1cup; cumin seeds - 1 tsp; Green chillies -7; cooking soda - 1 pinch; oil - to deep fry; salt as per taste

ABOUT Uggani bajji, Puffed rice upma RECIPE

Uggani is prepared using puffed rice. Puffed rice is also known as borugulu/maramarlu in Telugu, Mandalu in Kannada, pori in Tamil. It is regularly prepared in our kitchen for breakfast, snacks and for tiffin box. It is very easy to prepare, it is sold in every Rayalaseema hotels-morning as breakfast and as snack in evening. Mirchi bajji(mirapakaya bajji in telugu) is good combination for uggani.

Ingredients Serving: 4

Ingredients to prepare uggani
Puffed Rice - 1 big bowl
Onion - 1 cup
Tomatoes - 3
Green chillies
Roasted chana dal powder - 1 small cup
Ginger -1 tsp
garlic - 10 cloves
Turmeric powder - 1 pinch
Lemon - 1
Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
cumin seed - 1 tsp
curry leaves - 1 tsp
coriander leaves - 1 tsp
oil - 5 tsp
salt as per taste
Ingredients to prepare bajji
Gram flour/besan - 1cup
cumin seeds - 1 tsp
Green chillies -7
cooking soda - 1 pinch
oil - to deep fry
salt as per taste

Instructions

Chop onions, tomatoes and keep it ready. Take a mixer jar add roasted Chana dal/putnalu and grind it to coarse powder.
Take a mixer jar add Green chillies, Ginger, garlic and grind it coarse paste and it into plate.
Soak puffed rice in water for 10 minutes. Take a pan add 5 tsp of oil let it heat for a second, add Mustard seeds, cumin seeds, curry leaves one by one let it fry and add chopped onion fry it till changes the color by adding salt.
Add Ginger garlic and chilli paste to the above. Add chopped tomatoes and turmeric powder mix it well and add some water. Close the lid for 5 minutes and let it cook.
Remove the puffed rice by squeezing water, remove all excess water. Add soaked puffed rice in the above and saute it. Do not mix it to hardly.
Switch off the flames, squeeze lemon and add it to the above saute it and add chopped coriander leaves and roasted Chana dal powder(putnalu podi) saute everything.
Tasty Uggani is ready. Lets start bajji preparation. Take a Kadai add oil and keep it in low flame to fry.Take a bowl add gram flour/besan and add salt, cumin seeds, cooking soda and 1/2 tsp hot oil mix it well as bajji batter.
Take a mirchi roll it in batter and place it in hot oil. Fry the bajji both sides on low flame and take it into plate. Yummy and tasty bajji is ready.Serve bajji with uggani.

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