Arisi upma recipe

Updated on July 11, 2022 by Raks Anand 23 Comments

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Arisi upma is made with raw rice and dal, we make it with toor dal (thuvaram paruppu) but I have seen people make with chana dal and moong dal too.

Very easy and simple recipe and one pot meal if you are looking for a filling breakfast or dinner. Very easy and simple recipe and one pot meal if you are looking for a filling breakfast or dinner. We make another version which is an easier one with arisi noi (broken rice) It has no dal other than tempering. I have posted it how to make rice upma in rice cooker earlier.

But wanted to post this authentic version my family makes for long time. I knew many of my readers search as arisi upma raks kitchen too. For past few months, I am making this version often and thought making a post.

My mom used to make it in vengala paanai, which will lend you a golden crisp adai in the bottom. It will be so delicious and I miss it. Next time I am going to bring a vengala panai sure for making pongal and this upma mainly😉.

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Arisi upma is made with raw rice and dal, we make it with toor dal (thuvaram paruppu) but I have seen people make with channa dal and moong dal too

Course Breakfast

Cuisine Indian

Prep Time 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes minutes

Author Raks Anand

Servings 3

Cup measurements

Ingredients

1 cup Raw Rice heaped
2 tablespoon Toor Dal
½ teaspoon Black Pepper
½ teaspoon Cumin seeds
2 & ¼ cup Watep
2 teaspoon Coconut Oil Optional
Salt

To temper

1 tablespoon Oil - 1 tbsp
½ teaspoon Mustard
2 teaspoon Urad Dal
2 teaspoon Channa Dal - 1 tbsp
⅛ teaspoon Asafoetida
2 Red Chili
1 Curry Leaves sprig

Instructions

First wash and soak rice, dal together for minimum 10 mins or maximum 2 hrs. Drain water and spread over a cotton cloth for 10 minutes.
Transfer little at a time to a blender. Grind it for few seconds to make it like rava. Make sure not to powder it finely. Coarsely grind pepper and jeera too.
In a small pressure cooker or heavy bottomed vessel, heat oil and temper with the items under ‘To temper’ table. Add water, salt and mix well.
Bring to boil and add the powdered rice, dal mixture. Cook until it turn like a porridge.
Lower the flame to medium and pressure cook for 2 whistles or cook in lowest heat for 15 minutes.
Once done, open and fluff it, drizzle with coconut oil.

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Notes

How much ever you soak the rice, the upma turns soft that much.
If you grind rice and dal altogether at a time, then it will get powdered at the bottom and be as such in the top, giving you un even grains. So grind little at a time.
You can skip pepper and jeera.
If you want adai at the bottom, after opening the cooker, keep in the flame low for 10 minutes.
You can use grated coconut towards the end to give a unique taste and flavour.

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How to make arisi upma Method:

First wash and soak rice, dal together for minimum 10 mins or maximum 2 hrs. Drain water and spread over a cotton cloth for 10 minutes.
Transfer little at a time to a blender. Grind it for few seconds to make it like rava. Make sure not to powder it finely. Coarsely grind pepper and jeera too.
In a small pressure cooker or heavy bottomed vessel, heat oil and temper with the items under ‘To temper’ table. Add water, salt and mix well.
Bring to boil and add the powdered rice, dal mixture. Cook until it turn like a porridge.
Lower the flame to medium and pressure cook for 2 whistles or cook in lowest heat for 15 minutes.
Once done, open and fluff it, drizzle with coconut oil.

coconut thogayal is the best combination for rice upma. I eat as such or with sugar too.

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Ramya Venkat
July 20, 2015 at 4:04 am

one of my favs
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Veena Theagarajan
July 20, 2015 at 4:38 am

I am hungry.. I made this with brown rice recently.. So yum!
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Kurinji
July 20, 2015 at 5:02 am

yummy...
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Sridevi Chakaravarthi
July 20, 2015 at 9:32 am

Hi raji, Thanks for the post. In our village we will grind the rice, dal and pepper using hand eanthirakkal. We make 1 or 2 kg. We store it for a month. We add onion also.
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Raks anand
July 20, 2015 at 1:00 pm

You are right, I remember my mom using enthiram for breaking this 🙂 But using for a month and onion addition is new to me, will try 🙂
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Thilak saravanan
July 20, 2015 at 2:44 pm

We used to put onion, it gives better flavor. Toor dhal, pepper, jeera combination sounds different.Will try your version.
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Naga
July 21, 2015 at 7:55 am

Even i follow ur method and it comes out well. Will have with brinjal gotusu. . I tried ur rose milk recipe and it came out so nice . Wil share the pic . But after storing in refrigerator some syrup has been solidified at the bottom.
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Meenal Krishnan
July 28, 2015 at 4:06 am

i tried this receipe today night and it come out well...thanks raji for sharing this receipe....i also added chopped small onion along with this....this receipe becomes all time favourite to our family...next time i will take photo and share...thanks a lot
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Kamakshi Kumar
October 10, 2015 at 9:29 am

How much of water to use for 1 cup of ground rice and dhall mix
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Kamakshi Kumar
October 10, 2015 at 9:29 am

For one cup of the rice and toor dhall mix how much water should we add?
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Unknown
October 14, 2015 at 12:30 pm

all of your recipes were extraordinary...
instead of raw rice, can i use the boiled rice...
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Parthasarathy Rangarajan
October 30, 2016 at 1:04 am

good one. Your explanation is simple to understand.Thanks.
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Geeta Srikrishna
May 19, 2017 at 11:01 am

Is the ratio same for the vengalai pannai also. My mum used to prepare at vengalai pannai.
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அபிநயா
May 19, 2017 at 11:01 am

my fav upma..when garnished with grated coconut... we will use shallots/small onion with coconut oil...aroma will be good. if it is a no moon day we can avoid the small onion...
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Raks anand
May 19, 2017 at 11:04 am

You can make it with 2 & 1/2 cup water for this recipe. 🙂
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Raks anand
May 19, 2017 at 11:04 am

This upma is tasty with raw rice only. You can try though.
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Swetha Ramki
January 21, 2018 at 10:54 am

Hi can we use red rice aka mapillai samba arisi?
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Swetha Ramki
January 21, 2018 at 10:54 am

Hi can we do this with Res rice aka mapillai samba arisi
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Raks Kitchen
January 21, 2018 at 11:02 am

yes, but water ratio might vary accordingly
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Bhuvana
December 04, 2019 at 2:29 pm

U tempted me saying vengala panai adai of arisi upma.
Tonyt going to try this recipe. I am a bit hesitant to prepare as my mom and mil are expert in this recipe.
Let's try
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- Raks Anand
  December 04, 2019 at 8:50 pm
  
  I hope it turned out good 🙂 Do let me know feedback.
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vaidehi
April 16, 2020 at 1:56 am

Tried this today and felt so good to eat upma since I got gluten insufficiency thank you so much!
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- Raks Anand
  April 16, 2020 at 5:59 pm
  
  Thanks for your feedback 🙂
  Reply

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