Oats Idli

Ingredients:
1 cup oats
1 cup Yogurt/Curds/perugu

1/2 cup Semolina or upma Rawa or Bombay Rava
1 cup butter milk
1/4 cup grated carrot
5 green chillies, chopped into small pieces
5 curry leaves
1 tbsp bengal gram
1 tbsp cashew nuts
1/4 tbsp mustard seeds
Salt as per taste
A pinch of asafoetida
1 tbsp Ghee
1/4 tbsp eno salt or baking soda

Method:

• In a pan, dry roast oats for about 4 min, cool and put them into a mixie jar and grind into fine powder
• In another pan, add 1 tbsp Ghee and when it is hot, add asafoetida, mustard seeds, curry leaves, bengal gram, cashew nuts and fry till mustard seeds splutter
• Add chopped green chilli and carrot and mix well and cook for 3 minutes
• Add semolina to the pan, mix well and fry for 2 more min and switch off the heat
• In a bowl, add oats powder, baking soda,all the above fried ingredients, enough salt, yogurt and butter milk and mix into a idli-like batter. You can add water if you need to.
• In Idli plates, pour this batter and steam cook in Idli cooker for 13 min

Very Yummy and healthy Oats Idlis are now ready to Serve!

Goes well with chutneys or without chutney..enjoy! :)