Looking for a healthy breakfast – try out this simple and nutritious Vermicelli Upma recipe for breakfast. Vermicelli is a very thin pasta broken into small strips. The beauty of this vermicelli is that it’s made out of wheat and it cooks up fast. A delicious breakfast that is enjoyed and relished in my house every weekend. Vermicelli can be substituted with angel hair pasta. Vermicelli needs to be toasted and placed in hot water before cooking. Boiling it in its raw form will result into a lump of wheat dough. While toasting make sure the flame setting is on low and keep stirring as it browns up pretty fast. Do not boil vermicelli rather place them in boiled water for 2-3 minutes until soft. After 2 minutes spoon out some strings of vermicelli – feel them in between your fingers and if they feel soft they are ready for cooking. Drain them till their last drop and allow them to dry out. They will look sticky – don’t worry allow it to dry out and then using a fork fluff them up.
Improvise and play around with the ingredients – bell peppers, green onions and even peanuts can be added to this recipe. Other way to cook vermicelli upma would be – after toasting vermicelli, keep it aside. Prepare its tempering and add toasted vermicelli to the mix, add enough water to cover vermicelli. Cover and cook till vermicelli has absorbed all the water and is soft. Do try out our Sweet Vermicelli recipe – Meethi Seviyan.
