Childhood meal time memories

Food memories are the most strongest memories. You can never rub them off. Those mealtime memories feel so nostalgic. There are so many things we look at, tie us back to our past. May it be soaked Almonds,  mangoes dipped in water, dollop of butter over Paratha's, grandmas Tamarind-Jaggery lollipop or even rolls made from Chapati, sugar and ghee, that amazing green chutney freshly grinded with the help of pestle and mortar or even a dough. Whenever mama would make dough for Chapati's, she would save some dough to play with when we were small. And also relishing raw mango (kairi), gooseberries (amla), Wild Asparagus Berries, Kabeet chutney, dried small Indian Jujube (Ber), mulberry (shahtoot) with salt over it. During summers almost every terrace was occupied to make sun dried stuffs- potato chips, flakes, Jowar Papad, Wheat papad, Moong Vadi etc. It used be an event-grandma, mama, aunt every lady in house used to gather to prepare pickles and sun dried stuffs. Pickles were stored in those typical white brown ceramic jars covered with white muslin cloth. Now we rarely get to see those ceramic jars.

 Such incredible food memories are the classics-makes us feel powerful, take us back to our culture, our past. Likewise there are few recipes which will take you back to your childhood. Once such recipe is- "Ubje"- A traditional broken rice recipe from Maharashtra. We certainly miss those days, that taste so let's re-create our mealtime memories again. 

Wear your aprons! And follow these simple steps to make this amazing dish.

[WATCH THIS VIDEO TUTORIAL OF UBJE RECIPE]

"UBJE"

Ingredients-

1 cup broken rice (chawal tukda/ you can even crush rice in mixer pot)

1/4 cup split bengal gram (chana dal)

1/4 cup raw peanuts

1/4 cup coconut sliced

2 Tablespoon Ghee/Oil

1 teaspoon mustard seeds

1 teaspoon cumin

1 onion finely chopped

1/2 teaspoon turmeric

7-8 curry leaves

1 teaspoon red chili powder

1 teaspoon sugar

salt to taste

1tablespoon lemon juice.

Chopped coriander for garnishing.

 Method-

1. Soak broken rice for 2-3 hours.

2. Separately soak Split bengal gram, peanuts and coconut for 2-3 hours.

3. Heat oil/ghee in a pressure cooker, add mustard seeds and cumin, allow it to crackle.

4. Add curry leaves and onions. Sauté it till onions are cooked properly.

5. Now add soaked Split bengal gram, peanuts and coconut. Fry it for 2-3 minutes.

6. Add soaked rice and again fry it for 2-3 minutes.

7. Now add turmeric, red chili powder, sugar and salt. Mix it well.

8. Add 2 cups boiling water to it.

9. Mix everything well and pressure cook it till 4-5 whistle on low flame.

10. Remove it from flame, allow it to cool.

11. Serve with load of ghee and garnish it with coriander/grated coconut.
[You can even make it using regular long rice]

"Ubje"-Made using broken rice

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