Badane Alu Uppittu | Brinjal Potato Uppitu recipe | Upma breakfast - dinner  

Badane Alu Uppittu is a simple breakfast or dinner recipe, which is basically made with rava / semolina. Just by adding badhane/ brinjal and alu/potatoes, uppittu transforms to a very new and unique recipe that will also not require any accomplishments. It not only enhances its taste but also adds nutrients to it. Badane alu uppittu can be an ideal for dinner as well. 

Now lets not prepare just plain uppittu, which is disliked by many only because of its blandness.We shall go for badane alu uppittu/brinjal potato uppitu. There are many varieties of Uppittu we make at homes. I will surely post all of them. This one being favourite amongst all varieties, apart from the veggies, mild spices also go into this to make it flavorsome unlike the plain uppittu.  

Plain uppittu cannot be eaten by itself, it needed accomplishment like sugar, pickle or kesari bath, these two : Uppittu and Kesari bath together (in combination) is also known popularly as "chow chow bath" throughout Karnataka. 

Many who want to eat some steaming hot food at the same time very very light food, prefer this recipe, quick to make and easy for digestion: and not missing veggies. Good for packing on lunch box. 

Thanks for my grandma who would make this on all or most of the festive days to finish breakfast cooking sooner and go ahead with elaborate special festive delights, try this delicious recipe and serve it hot . Once eaten even those who cringe their faces on hearing uppittu would relish and fall in love with it ..:) 

Badane Alu Uppittu | Brinjal Potato Uppitu recipe | Upma breakfast - dinner      Cuisine : South Indian – Karnataka Servings – 3 Cook time – 10 minutes

Ingredients  Rava/semolina – 1 cup Brinjals –  1 small each sliced to small pieces Potatoes – 1 small cubed Tomatoes – 1 small diced Onions – 1 medium chopped finely Curry leaves – few Green chillies – 2 sliced Turmeric – ¼ teaspoon For Seasoning  Mustard seeds – ¼ teaspoon Oil – 3 teaspoons Jeera - 1/4 teaspoons Cinnamon - 2 small pieces Cloves - 2 to 3  Ginger & garlic crushed - 1/4 teaspoon

Method Roast rava with 1/4 teaspoon of oil and remove to the plate Heat oil in the pan, add mustard, cinnamon, clove wait till mustard splutters Add onions, green chillies and curry leaves saute for a minute Add crushed ginger and garlic and saute for few seconds  Add in chopped brinjal and potatoes stir fry for few more minutes Now add tomatoes and turmeric powder. saute until tomatoes are soft Add salt to taste  Measure water and add - about 2 and a half cup (or 3 cups depending on the rava's quality) Bring water to boil, let this boil for 2 to 3 minutes  Reduce the flame to low then add in roasted rava slowly, and mixing thoroughly as you add in rava  (if not mixed while adding rava, rava forms lumps) so constantly keep mixing Cover the pan and cook on medium flame for about 3 minutes  Open the cover and add 3 to 4 teaspoons of ghee and give a good mix , if rava is cooked switch off the flame and add finely chopped coriander leaves Allow uppittu to stay cover for few more minutes before serving

You might also check some of the easiest breakfast recipes in this website 

 Kadlepuri Uppittu 

Mango Rice

Paddu 

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Tips:

Add roughly crushed cloves and cinnamon 

Add roughly crushed ginger and garlic 

You can also grind - ginger. garlic, cinnamon, cloves and green chillies to rough paste in mixer and add which makes cooking easier and also tastes good 

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How to make Badane Alu Uppittu | Brinjal Potato Uppitu recipe | Upma breakfast - dinner with step-by-step pictures

1. Roast rava with 1/4 teaspoon of oil and remove to the plate

2. Chop onions,green chillies, brinjals and potatoes 

3. Heat oil in the pan, add mustard, cinnamon, clove, urad dal, chana dal wait till mustard splutters

4. Add onions, green chillies, ginger - garlic crushed and curry leaves saute for a minute

5. Add in chopped brinjal and potatoes stir fry for few more minutes

6. Now add tomatoes and turmeric powder. saute until tomatoes are soft

7. Add salt to taste 

8. Measure water and add - about 2 and a half cup (or 3 cups depending on the rava's quality) . Bring water to boil, let this boil for 2 to 3 minutes 

9. Reduce the flame to low then add in roasted rava slowly, and mixing thoroughly as you add in rava. Cover the pan and cook on medium flame for about 3 minutes 

10. Open the cover and add 3 to 4 teaspoons of ghee and give a good mix , if rava is cooked switch off the flame and add finely chopped coriander leaves

11. Allow uppittu to stay cover for few more minutes before serving