Healthy Appetizers – Oat Uttappa & Oat Upma
Oats are one of the best natural food available.
They are not only a high fiber source, but also help remove cholesterol from the digestive system.
Other major benefits include reduced risk of cardiovascular disease, immune response to infection, stabilize blood sugar etc.
6 times a week for postmenopausal women is ideally recommended to reduce the above mentioned diseases.
So you don’t really need to make porridge you can get experimental with other oat recipes as well.
Ingredients:
Oil as needed
2 No – Tomatoes finely chopped
1 No – Onion large finely chopped
2 No – Green chillies finely chopped
2 tbsp – Coriander finely chopped
1/4 cup – Panner (optional)
Salt to taste
Dough
1/2 cup – Sour curd
1/4 cup – Oats ground
1/4 tsp – Soda
Salt to taste
Method:
Add water to the dough and mix well to get the batter of a thick dropping consistency.
Keep the batter aside for 1 hour.
Mix the remaining ingredients and add them to the batter. Buy Quality Oats For Better Fullness Cream Hill Estates Lara’s Rolled Oats
Heat a heavy iron skillet or tawa. Add about 1 tbsp oil on it and rub with onion evenly all over.
Reduce to a low flame and then add about 2-3 tbsp of the batter on the skillet using ladle spoon.
Then spread it evenly with the back of the flat cooking spoon.
Leave a few drops of oil along the side of the uttapam.
When the base begins to brown, then gently push it along the sides and then turn upside down so that the other side cooks.
Serve hot with chutney.
Oat Upma
Ingredients:
4 tbsp – Oil
1/2 cup – Oats
1/4 cup – Semolina (sujee)
2 No – Tomatoes finely chopped
1 tbsp – Cashew nuts chopped
1 No – Onion chopped
2 No – Green chillies chopped
1/2 tsp – Mustard seeds
1/2 tsp – White gram dal (urad)
1/2 tsp – Curry leaves
1-1 1/2 cup – Water
Pinch of sugar (optional)
Salt to taste
Method:
Place a pan with fine sujee in it and dry roast till you get a pleasant aroma and keep it aside.
In the same pan, add oil and when hot add mustard seeds, as the spluttering starts add white gram dal, cashews and curry leaves.
Next add onions and chillies fry till pink.
Then add tomatoes and salt and let the mix cook till tomatoes go soft (4-5 mins).
Then add the sujee and mix and then oats (1-2 mins).
Place water in a pan and heat till it boils.
Add it to the above mix and keep stirring quickly.
The water will get asborbed and the mix will cluster.
Turn off the gas and serve hot.