Oats, which is getting very popular all over the world, is well known for its immense health values. Since long, we have been hearing oats intake being regular with diabetic patients and old people. Oats is actually a meal which can satisfy the young one's too. Due to its plain tasteless nature, it is not preferred by many, and often misconceived as a patient food. This is not true, We can cook oats in various different and tasty ways & get benefited by it to enjoy good health.
Oats dosai, is an instant dosai, made primarily with oats and other flours, which can be enjoyed as much as a normal dosai, when accompanied with a tasty side-dish. Oats can be habituated into various tiffin items that we regularly eat like upma, pongal, chapathi etc.
Best Accompaniment : Onion-Tomato Chutney / Onion Chutney
Health Benefits of Oats:
1. Oats help Reduce the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes.
2. Oats for Weight Loss. Starting the day with a nutritious, fiber rich meal such as oats can help with maintaining a healthy weight. Oats has been found as having the highest value of all breakfast meals, giving a feeling of fullness for longer.
3. Oats contains a substance called beta-glucan which significantly reduces LDL cholesterol.
4. Oats beta-glucan improve Immune system defenses against bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites.
5. Oats Help cut the use of Laxatives.
Let us look at making an instant oats dosai now.
Ingredients:
Oats - 1 Cup
Rice flour - 1/2 Cup
Semolina - 1/4 Cup
Salt - 1 tsp
Curd - 3/4 Cup
Water - 1/2 Cup
Onion (small) - 1, chopped finely
Green chillies - 2, cut to small pieces
Oil - 1 tsp
Method:
1. In a broad bowl, add oats, rice flour, semolina, salt, curd and water and make into a thick batter & set aside for 5 minutes.
2. In a kadai, add oil, and fry onion and green chillies, until onion turns translucent & remove.
3. Mix the fried ingredients in step 2 into the batter made from step 1 & mix well.
4. Heat the dosai tava, when it becomes hot, smear little oil across the tava and pour a ladle of this oats batter in the middle and spread the batter into a thick small circle (to the size of your palm). Drizzle oil around the corners and the middle of the batter. Wait till the bottom corners turn brown and toss the dosa on the other side and allow it to get cooked (small brown spots to appear evenly across the inner portion) and then remove from the tava and serve with any chutney.
Tips:
1. The oats dosai doesn't come thin , crisp and big like normal dosa, it should be of oothappam thickness, can be small sized (like palm size), as it breaks easily while tossing.
2. Eat this dosai while it is hot, once it gets cold, you may not enjoy the taste so much.
3. Adding the fried onions and green chillies are optional, this is to give some extra flavour & little spice to the dosai, if you want to avoid this , you can make dosai without onions and green chillies.
4. You can also add 1 teaspoon of cumin seeds into the batter before making the dosai, if you want.
Oats dosai, is an instant dosai, made primarily with oats and other flours, which can be enjoyed as much as a normal dosai, when accompanied with a tasty side-dish. Oats can be habituated into various tiffin items that we regularly eat like upma, pongal, chapathi etc.
Best Accompaniment : Onion-Tomato Chutney / Onion Chutney
Health Benefits of Oats:
1. Oats help Reduce the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes.
2. Oats for Weight Loss. Starting the day with a nutritious, fiber rich meal such as oats can help with maintaining a healthy weight. Oats has been found as having the highest value of all breakfast meals, giving a feeling of fullness for longer.
3. Oats contains a substance called beta-glucan which significantly reduces LDL cholesterol.
4. Oats beta-glucan improve Immune system defenses against bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites.
5. Oats Help cut the use of Laxatives.
Let us look at making an instant oats dosai now.
Ingredients:
Oats - 1 Cup
Rice flour - 1/2 Cup
Semolina - 1/4 Cup
Salt - 1 tsp
Curd - 3/4 Cup
Water - 1/2 Cup
Onion (small) - 1, chopped finely
Green chillies - 2, cut to small pieces
Oil - 1 tsp
Method:
1. In a broad bowl, add oats, rice flour, semolina, salt, curd and water and make into a thick batter & set aside for 5 minutes.
2. In a kadai, add oil, and fry onion and green chillies, until onion turns translucent & remove.
3. Mix the fried ingredients in step 2 into the batter made from step 1 & mix well.
4. Heat the dosai tava, when it becomes hot, smear little oil across the tava and pour a ladle of this oats batter in the middle and spread the batter into a thick small circle (to the size of your palm). Drizzle oil around the corners and the middle of the batter. Wait till the bottom corners turn brown and toss the dosa on the other side and allow it to get cooked (small brown spots to appear evenly across the inner portion) and then remove from the tava and serve with any chutney.
Tips:
1. The oats dosai doesn't come thin , crisp and big like normal dosa, it should be of oothappam thickness, can be small sized (like palm size), as it breaks easily while tossing.
2. Eat this dosai while it is hot, once it gets cold, you may not enjoy the taste so much.
3. Adding the fried onions and green chillies are optional, this is to give some extra flavour & little spice to the dosai, if you want to avoid this , you can make dosai without onions and green chillies.
4. You can also add 1 teaspoon of cumin seeds into the batter before making the dosai, if you want.
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