A classic breakfast dish made with rawa and vermicelli (semiya)
Rawa Semiya Khichadi
Course: BreakfastCuisine: Indian, TamilDifficulty: EasyServings
6
servingsPrep time
10
minutesCooking time
20
minutesA classic breakfast dish made with rawa and vermicelli (semiya)
Ingredients
1 cup rawa
1 cup vermicelli
1 big onion
4 green chillies
1 small tomato
1 cup mixed vegetables cut into small pieces (carrot, beans, green peas, capsicum, potato)
a small piece of ginger
4 garlic pearls
- For seasoning
1 teaspoon Fennel seeds (Sombu / Ani seeds)
1 small size Bay Leaf
2 cloves
1 small size cinnamon stick
1 cardamom whole
Few cashew nuts
8 tablespoon oil
1 spring curry leaves
1 teaspoon salt or as per taste
a pinch of turmeric powder
Directions
- Fry rawa and vermicelli separately in a tablespoon of oil on medium flame till it turn its colour slightly. Keep it aside.
- Chop onion lengthwise. Cut tomato into medium size pieces. Slit green chillies.
- Chop garlic and ginger finely. (You can use ginger garlic paste also).
- In a kadai add the remaining oil and when it is hot add fennel seeds, bay leaf, cloves, cinnamon sticks, cardamom and fry for a while.
- Add cashew nuts and fry just for few seconds.
- Then add onions and green chillies, curry leaves and fry for two minutes.
- Add ginger garlic pieces or the paste and fry for a while.
- Then add the vegetables and mix well.
- Finally add tomato pieces and stir well.
- Add turmeric powder, salt and the 4 1/2 to 5 cups of water and bring to boil.
- When it starts boiling, reduce the flame and add the fried rawa and vermicelli and mix well.
- Close with a lid and cook on slow fire stirring now and then till the rawa and vermicelli become soft and absorb all the water.