Oats uttapam

Oats are healthier than you give them credit for. They are easily available, very cheap or at least not costly at all and packed with fiber and other valuable nutrients. They are usually eaten in the form of porridge but can be cooked in a variety of other ways.

If you want to enrich your diet with oats or just want to try something different and innovative, oats uttapam is just the thing. It gets ready in a jiffy and tastes awesome.

Oats soaked in yogurt

Ingredients:
2 cups normal oats which are used for porridge
200 gms yogurt
1 large onion finely chopped
2 big tomatoes finely chopped
2 green chillies finely chopped
A few curry leaves chopped
A little green coriander chopped ( optional)
1 tbsp whole cumin seeds

Method:
Soak the oats in the yogurt for 1 hour or more after which run it into a mixer to get a rough textured paste.

Add the chopped onions, tomatoes, curry leaves, coriander leaves, chillies, salt and cumin seeds and mix them together in the batter.

Heat a nonstick pan. Drop a ladle spoonful of this batter and spread it in a round shape. Sprinkle a few cumin seeds on top. When the upper part begins to harden drop a tbsp oil round it. Flip it and cook the other side till golden brown.

Serve it with green chutney, tabasco or pickle whichever you prefer.