Oats Idly - Instant

This is an instant variety of idly. Adding the sour yoghurt will enhance the spongy texture of the idly. 

Oats idly with coriander chutney

Ingredients:
Instant oats powder – 3 cups
Semolina (Fine variety)– 1 ½ cup
Yoghurt – 4 cups (should be very sour)
Baking soda – 1 tsp
Salt

Method:
Dry roast the oats powder and semolina separately.
Mix them with yoghurt along with salt and rest it for 1 hour
Just before making the idly, add baking soda and mix everything.

Scoop the batter into idly moulds and steam for 12- 15 minutes.
Serve hot with any chutney.  

Note: If you do not have the instant oats, you can use the rolled oats and pulse them into coarse to fine powder.

Oats Porridge with Almonds and Dates

This is an another healthy breakfast with a combination of oats, alomnds and dates with lots of fibre, iron and other vitamins and minerals. No artificial sweetners. A Highland hero for centuries, oats are the healthy, slow energy-release cereal that gets digested easily for any one. You can use any variety, either rolled or crushed, still have all the nutrients. Powdered one is used to make instant porridge. I like the traditional, thick, whole oat flakes.

Oats porridge with dates and almonds

Ingredients:
½ cup oatmeal
8 – 10 pitted dates
1 Large pinch cinnamon pwd
1 tbsp raisins (optional)
5-6 almonds soaked overnight
1 cup water
1 cup Milk

Oats, Pitted dates, Almonds and milk

Method:

Bring water to a boil, add oats and cook till the oats are half done. Add milk, pitted dates and cinnamon powder and cook until they are completely done.

Add chopped almonds and raisins and turn off heat and serve warm.

Dates not only gives nice taste but also loads of health benefits.

Oats Bisibelabath

A simple recipe with little oil and more nutrients. A great way to avoid rice and easy to digest.

Oats bisibelabath with boondhi

Serves - 3

Ingredients:

Rolled Oats – 1 cup
Toor daal – ½ cup
Onion – 1 large chopped into stripes
Tomato – 1 large
Mixed Vegetables of your choice chopped into bite size – 2 cups
Sambar Powder – 1 tbsp
Tamarind – lemon size
Salt
Oil

For Seasoning;
Mustard – ½ tsp
Cumin – ½ tsp
Curry leaves – 1 string
Coriander chopped– 2 tbsp
Dry Red chilli – 2
Cashew nuts – 10
Almonds – 4-6 (Chopped)

 

Oats, Toor Daal, Mixed vegetables

Method:

Soak oats in 1 cup of water and keep it aside.

Soak Tamarind and extract the pulp and keep it aside.

Pressure cook daal into smooth paste

Heat a pan and add a tsp of oil. When it is hot add all the vegetables along with onion and tomato and fry for a minute with out burning and add 2-3 cups of water.

When the vegetables are half cooked add the soaked oats and cooked daal, stir every thing and add salt, tamarind pulp and sambar powder and cover with the lid.

Stir in between and reduce the flame when all the vegetables and oats cooked thoroughly, reduce the flame, cover with lid and cook for another 7-10 minutes. 

Heat another pan for seasoning. When it is hot add mustard, cumin, curry leaves red chilli, cashews, almonds and finally chopped coriander. Add the seasoning to the oats mixture.

Quick oats cookies

Oats Cookies

These cookies are very easy to prepare and takes very less time. I have used quick oats which is nothing but powder form of oats. You can also replace the quick oats with rolled oats grinding into coarse powder.

Ingredients:

3 cups Quick cooking oats

1/4 cup self raising floor

¼ cup unsalted butter, room temperature

2 tbsp Milk

3/4th cup sugar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
Tutti – Fruity – ½ cup

Quick oats and Tutti frutti

Oatmeal Cookies: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (177 degrees C) and line a baking tray with parchment paper.

In the bowl beat the butter and sugar until creamy and smooth (about 2 - 3 minutes). Add the vanilla extract and beat to combine. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, quick oats, baking soda and salt. Add the flour mixture to the creamed mixture, sprinkle the milk and mix until incorporated. Finally stir in the tutti frutti.

Cookie dough

To make cookies, use a spoon and scoop the dough (I like to use an ice cream scoop) and space the dough about 2 inches (5 cm) apart on the baking sheet. Then wet your hand and flatten the cookies slightly with your fingers so they are about 1/2 inch (1.25 cm) thick.

Bake the cookies for about 12 - 15 minutes or until light golden brown around the edges but still soft and a little wet in the centers. Remove from oven and let the cookies cool a few minutes on the baking sheet before transferring them to a wire rack to cool.

Oats cookies

Oats upma

Rolled oats, prepared by par boiling the oats and rolled them flat. So we don’t need to cook thoroughly like semolina or rice. Oat contains rich soluble fibre and is digested slowly and releases slowly the glucose in the intestines for absorption. So it is prescribed in diabetic diets to prevent and control diabetes.

Not only that,inclusion of oats in diet which contain high fine fibre assists in weight loss and control. Oats needs to chew properly and also brings about a feeling of fullness of stomach and also slows emptying of stomach contents.

Ingredients:

Rolled oats – 1 cup
Green chilli – 6-8
Onion Medium sized – 1
Potato medium cut into ½ inch cubes– 1
Mustard seeds – 1 tsp
Curry leaves
Oil – 2 tbsp
Salt
Turmeric – 2 pinches
Lemon juice – 1 tsp (Optional)
Chopped coriander – 1 tbsp
Peanuts – 2 tbsp

Method:

Pour the rolled oats into a colander. Dissolve 1 tsp of salt into 2 cups of water and slowly pour over the oats and make sure that all the oats gets wet and keep it aside. As the oats tend to absorb more water and if they become more dry then sprinkle bit more water. By nature the oats are taste less. Doing this the oats will absorb the salt water and tastes better.

In the mean time chop the required veggies.
Cut the green chilli and onion length wise and potatoes into cubes.

Rolled oats, chopped onion, chilli and potato cubes

Heat a pan with oil. Once the oil is hot, add peanuts and roast until light brown. Add green chillies, onion, potato, mustard, salt and curry leaves one after the other and fry until the onions and potatoes are done. And turmeric and fry for a minute and finally add the oats. Stir for a minute and finally sprinkle the lemon juice and chopped coriander and serve immediately. It tastes good when it is warm.

Oats Upma