Thursday, January 13, 2011

Oats Upma

Other name - Oatmeal Upma / Vegetable Oats Upma

Prep Time: 20 min

Cooking Time: 20 min

Serves: 3


Ingredients
  1. Rolled oats - 2 cups
  2. Onion - 3 medium sized
  3. Beans - 5 to 6
  4. Capsicum - 1 medium sized
  5. Carrot - 2 small sized
  6. Potato - 1 medium sized
  7. Ginger (peeled & grated) - 1/2 inch piece
  8. Green chillies (vertically slit) - 2
  9. Lemon juice (optional) - 2 tbsp
  10. Water - 3 cups
  11. Salt - to taste
For seasoning
  1. Oil - 2 tbsp
  2. Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
  3. Split urad dhal - 1 tsp
  4. Split yellow moong dhal - 1 tsp
  5. Raw / Roasted peanuts - 1 tbsp
  6. Channa dhal - 1 tsp
  7. Curry leaves - few
Method
  1. Wash, peel & finely chop all vegetables; set aside.
  2. Dry roast steel cut oats on medium flame for about 3 to 5 min until light brown.
  3. Heat oil in a wok, add mustard seeds & let it splutter.
  4. Add rest of the seasoning ingredients; saute for a min or two.
  5. Add finely sliced onions, vertically slit green chillies, grated ginger, salt & saute until golden brown.
  6. Add all the other vegetables one by one & saute on high flame for 3 min.
  7. Close with lid, reduce flame to low & cook for 3 min.
  8. Open lid, combine, close with lid & cook again for another 3 min on low flame.
  9. The vegetables should be glossy in appearance & finely roasted in oil.
  10. Now add water & once the water starts to boil, add roasted oats, stir well & close with lid.
  11. Allow to cook for 3 min; then open lid, combine & cook uncovered for another 2 min.
  12. Add lemon juice, stir well & serve hot with any chutney or pickle of your choice.
NOTE

3 comments:

  1. everybody liked it, very different taste.

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  2. Hi Maha! Thank you! Will be postin more recipes with oats sooner or later. Try them out & post ur valuable comments!

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  3. hi dear i was thinking of this oats upma. but dont know how to start...the receipe helped out a lot... i will try and let u know..thank u:)

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