Red Poha. Red poha is a little coarse in texture than the regular white variant. While the taste is quite easy to like, most take time to accept the texture. You will need to make different poha dishes using beaten red rice to acquire the taste for it.

Most recipes in the North call for onions, tomatoes and potatoes, along with fresh coriander leaves to garnish. Whereas in the West and South, you will find the use of peas, curry. Red Rice Poha or Red Poha Upma is a healthy and delicious breakfast option made using red poha and is very easy to make as well. You can cook Red Poha using 15 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Red Poha

Prepare 2 Cups of Red Poha.
Prepare 1/4 cup of onion.
You need 1/4 cup of red, green and yellow bell peppers each (optional).
You need 1/4 cup of Tomato.
Prepare 8-10 of curry leaves.
You need 2 Tbsp of frozen green peas.
It's 1.5 Tsp of Black mustard seeds.
You need 1 Tsp of black salt.
It's 1.5 Tsp of pink salt (or white).
Prepare 1 Tbsp of Coriander Powder.
It's 1.5 Tsp of Turmeric Powder.
You need 1-2 Tbsp of roasted peanuts.
Prepare 1 of juicy lemon.
You need of Fresh Coriander for garnish.
You need of 1.5 Tsp Olive oil.

Here is how to make it. Kanda Poha or Onion Poha is a very popular breakfast dish in Maharashtra. Red poha or red rice flakes is nothing but flattened rice made from red rice. Red poha nutrition value is high compared to white rice flakes.

Red Poha instructions

Wash the red poha very nicely and soak it for five minutes in clean water..
After five minutes drain all the water from poha nicely..
Now take a big mixing bowl and transfer the dried poha into it and mix the dry spices into it like turmeric powder, coriander powder, black salt and pink salt. Keep aside..
Please note: this step ensure the proper and equal blend of all the dried spices into the poha which is slightly wet after draining water..
Now in a pan, heat olive oil and splutter mustard seeds with curry leaves for one minute..
Saute all the chopped vegetables as mentioned above in the ingredients like onion, tomatoes, all three types of Bell peppers and green peas..
Cover with lid if necessary..
After the vegetables have been sauted, add the dried poha mixture into it and mix everything very nicely. Cover with a lid and simmer for one minute at low flame so that all the flavours bind together..
After a minute, uncover and add roasted Peanuts, fresh coriander and lemon juice as per taste..
Mix everything nicely and serve hot..

It has health benefits in terms of having more iron content and is also easy to digest. Rice flakes also goes by the name flattened rice, beaten rice, poha, atukulu, aval and avalakki. Poha is a famous and most common breakfast eaten all over in India. Here is another variant of poha and that is Red Rice Poha. It is healthier, tastier, and organic This recipe of poha is cooked with subtle tempering of herbs and spices.