OATS UPMA HEALTHY RECIPE

Ingredients

For Roasting Oats

• ▢1 cup quick cooking oats – 100 grams

• ▢½ teaspoon oil – any neutral oil

Other Ingredients

• ▢¼ cup finely chopped onions – tightly packed

• ▢¼ cup finely chopped carrots

• ▢¼ cup finely chopped french beans

• ▢¼ cup green peas – fresh or frozen

• ▢7 to 8 curry leaves

• ▢1 teaspoon mustard seeds

• ▢1 teaspoon cumin seeds

• ▢1 teaspoon chana dal (split and husked bengal gram)

• ▢1 teaspoon urad dal (optional)

• ▢8 to 10 cashews or roasted peanuts

• ▢½ teaspoon ginger – finely chopped

• ▢1 or 2 green chilies – chopped

• ▢1 to 2 tablespoon chopped coriander leaves (cilantro)

• ▢1.25 cups water

• ▢2 tablespoons oil – any neutral oil or coconut oil

• ▢salt as required

Instructions Roasting Oats

• Heat oil in a pan. Add 1 cup quick cooking oats.

• Stir and roast on a low heat until the oats become crisp.

• Keep stirring continuously so that the oats do not get browned from the bottom. No need to brown the oats. You really just want a bit of crispness.

• Remove oats in a plate or tray and set aside.

Sautéing Onions And Veggies

• In the same pan, heat the oil. Add mustard seeds. Stir and fry until the mustard seeds crackle.

• Then add cumin seeds, chana dal, urad dal (optional) and cashews.

• Stir and fry until the chana dal gets browned.

• Add tightly packed finely chopped onions. Stir and sauté until the onions turn translucent.

• Next add finely chopped ginger, chopped green chillies and curry leaves. Stir and sauté for half a minute.

Making Oats Upma

• Then add finely chopped carrots, finely chopped french beans and green peas, fresh or frozen. Stir and sauté for 2 minutes.

• Add water. Cover the pan with its lid.

• On a medium heat simmer and cook this mixture until the veggies are almost done. About 8 to 9 minutes.

• Then add the roasted oats. Stir lightly. Add salt as required. Stir very well.

• Then cover the pan again with its lid and on a low heat, steam for 7 to 8 minutes.

• Once done, then add chopped coriander leaves.

• Stir and serve oats upma drizzled with some lemon or lime juice.