Oats Vegetable Upma / Oats Upma

Try this fiber rich Oats Vegetable Upma, a healthy alternative to the popular South Indian breakfast recipe, which is usually prepared using semolina! 

Check out my other recipes using oats:

Oats Pongal

Oats Sweet Paniyaram / Oats Paniyaram / Oats Appam

Apple Oats Cake

Eggless Oats Chocolate Biscotti

Crunchy Oats Cookie

Ingredients:

Oats - 1 cup
Turmeric Powder – ½ tsp
Onion – 1 (finely chopped)
Green Chillies – 3  (slitted)
Ginger – 1 inch piece (grated))
Carrots – 1 medium sized (finely chopped)
Green peas - ¼ cup
Coriander Leaves – for garnish
Salt – to taste
Water – 1 ¼ cups

For seasoning:
Mustard Seeds – ¾ tsp
Channa dhal – 1 tsp
Urad dhal – 1 tsp
Oil –1 to 2 tbsp

Oats Pongal

Bored of using oats only for porridge? Try it out for Pongal; a popular South Indian breakfast recipe!

Pongal is usually made of rice and moong dhal; here is a twist using oats instead of rice.  It is easy to make, tasty and healthy as well!

Try this and include in your routine for a healthy living!

Ingredients:

Oats  -1 cup

Moong dhal - ½ cup

Turmeric powder - ¼  tsp

Water -  1 ½ - 2 cups

Salt - to taste

To Temper:
Black pepper -1 tsp
Cumin seeds -1 tsp

Curry leaves- 1 sprig
Cashew nuts - 8 to 10 pieces (broken into small pieces)
Ginger - 2 tsp (finely chopped)
Green chilli – 1 (finely chopped)
Oil - 2 tsp

Ghee – 1 to 2 tsp

Directions:

Wash and pressure cook dhal with turmeric powder until soft.  Keep aside.