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.
