Oats Upma. To make oats upma, regular rolled oats are best. The health benefits of regular rolled oats are more when compared to the quick cook oats. Regular rolled oats have a low glycemic index than the quick cook oats.
Oats Upma makes a great tasting, spicy yet reasonably healthy breakfast. When I tried Oats Upma for the first time, I wasn't expecting it to come out too well and taste too good. It is easy for the whole Upma mixture to become soggy, soft and tasting dull if care is not taken to see the whole preparation receives the right amount of water. You can have Oats Upma using 16 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Oats Upma
- It's 1 cup of oats.
- Prepare 2 tablespoon of oil.
- It's 1 tsp of mustard seeds.
- You need 1/2 tsp of urad dal.
- Prepare 1 inch of ginger (chopped).
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of cummin seeds.
- Prepare leaves of Few curry.
- You need 10 of cashews(kaju).
- You need 2 of chilli.
- It's 1/2 of onion,finely chopped.
- You need 1/2 of carrot,finely chopped.
- You need 5 of beans finely choppee.
- Prepare 1/4 of caspisum finely chopped.
- You need 1/2 tsp of turmeric.
- Prepare To taste of Salt.
- It's 1 cup of water.
Oats upma can be served plain, drizzled with some lime or lemon juice or also served with a side of coconut chutney. Oats upma also makes for a healthy tiffin box snack. Heat ½ tsp oil in a shallow frying pan. Have you ever tried making upma with oats?
Oats Upma step by step
- Firstly take a pan heat oil and splutter mustard seeds,urad dal,cummin,few curry leaves and 10 cashews.saute until the cashew turn golden brown..
- Now add ginger and onion,saute well.
- Furthermore add carrot,beans,capsicum turmeric and salt.
- Add, water cover and simmer for 5 minutes.
- Now add water get it to boil.add oats and mix well.now cover and simmer for 5 minutes until oats gets cooked well..
- Finally enjoy vegetable oats upma as a healthy breakfast garnish with cheese or coconut.
Upma, a very common and quick South Indian breakfast dish, is not very popular unlike its counterpart, the famous Masala Dosa. People either love or hate Upma. I know of many kids and adults alike who hate to hear the phrase 'upma for breakfast'. I don't belong to that category, though. Oats upma is a fusion of western and Indian ingredients, which combines all health benefits of oats, fresh vegetables and Indian spices.