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Savory Cracked Wheat Upma

A South Indian breakfast of toasted grain steamed with onion, ginger, and mustard-seed heat until fluffy.

Savory Cracked Wheat Upma, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
30 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$5.83

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cup couscous
  • 3 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 1 yellow onions
  • 1 oz fresh ginger root
  • 1 jalapeño peppers
  • 1/2 tsp ground turmeric
  • 6 oz frozen mixed vegetables
  • 1 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 lemon
  • 1/2 bunch cilantro(optional)

Method

  1. Toast the dry grain in a dry skillet over medium heat for 4 minutes, stirring, until it smells nutty. Tip it onto a plate.

  2. Heat the oil in the same pan and cook the diced onion, minced ginger, and chopped chile for 5 minutes until soft.

  3. Stir in the turmeric and the frozen vegetables and cook 3 minutes.

  4. Pour in 3 cups of hot water with the salt and bring to a boil.

  5. Add the toasted grain in a steady stream, stirring hard so it does not clump. Cover, take off the heat, and let it steam 8 minutes.

  6. Fluff with a fork, squeeze lemon over, and top with cilantro.

What this costs, country by country

Each figure is the ingredients for the full recipe at prices read in that country’s own shops, in its own currency. Nothing here is converted from dollars.

The cost of this recipe in 11 countries, each in its own currency, with how many of the 9 ingredients we could price in each. Figures are not converted between currencies, so the rows cannot be ranked against each other.
CountryWhole recipePer servingPriced from
United Kingdom£13.56£3.399 of 9 ingredients
Australia$36.52$9.139 of 9 ingredients
New Zealand$31.25$7.819 of 9 ingredients
Greece15,40 €3,85 €9 of 9 ingredients
Canada$52.10$13.039 of 9 ingredients
Spain12,02 €3,01 €9 of 9 ingredients
Mexico$524.93$131.239 of 9 ingredients
Egypt‏٥٣٠٫٨٥ ج.م.‏‏١٣٢٫٧١ ج.م.‏8 of 9 ingredients
Germany17,25 €4,31 €8 of 9 ingredients
Austria€ 13,69€ 3,428 of 9 ingredients
United States$23.33$5.837 of 9 ingredients

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