Add quinoa and turn to low heat and cover the lid and cook it for 17 minutes. By stirring them occasionally. Keep an eye in between the cooking time.
Once the quinoa cooked completely, keep it aside.
For making the upma
Over medium heat, place a pan. Add vegetable oil, mustard seeds, cumin seeds, urad dal, and Bengal gram.
Wait until mustard seeds splutter.
Then combine chopped onion, ginger slices, curry leaves, and green chili.
Fry them till onion becomes translucence.
In low heat, and add cooked quinoa and salt.
Stir for a minute and serve hot.
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Notes
You can also check perfect cooking stage for quinoa by pressing it between the fingers, if it is mashed up with the pressure, you are good to go, it is completely cooked.