Name: Oats Besan Chilla | How to make Oats Cheela
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 45 min
Ingredients: 1 Cup Oats (I used quick Quaker oats. 1 Cup - 250ml); ½ Cup Gram Flour (Besan / Chickpea Flour); ½ tsp Ajwain / Carom Seeds / Omam; ¾ tsp Salt (Adjust As Needed); ½ tsp Red Chili Powder; ¼ tsp Turmeric Powder; 2 Green Chili (Chopped); ½ Onion (Chopped); ½ Green Capsicum (Chopped); ½ Carrot (Grated); 1.5 Cups Water (Adjust as needed); 1 tbsp Coriander Leaves; ¼ Cup Oil (For Cooking Cheela)

Oats Besan Chilla Recipe | How to make Oats Cheela

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Chilla / Cheela is an Indian Savory Pancake made with Gram Flour. Chilla is a quick and easy to make Vegetarian dish within 30 mins. Cheela is usually served for breakfast or we can serve for brunch too. We can call this as a vegetarian alternate for Omelette. Instead of using only besan to make chilla, we can use other moong dal, sooji, paneer, green peas, oats etc and make this chilla even more yummy and healthy.

In this recipe, we are going to use oats along with besan. Also we are going to spice the batter mildly

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Tips for getting perfect Oats Besan chilla:

Use Quick oats or oatmeal and grind it to a smooth powder
Adding vegetables increase the flavor but its optional. We can just add onion and coriander leaves
Make pouring consistency batter out of the oats, besan and spices. Besan and oats flour tend to absorb water so adjust the quantity of water
Cook Chilla in medium flame to make sure the besan and oats are getting cooked properly.

SEE Also : Other Recipes made using Oats

Recipe card for Oats Besan Chilla Recipe | How to make Oats Besan Cheela:

Instructions with Step by step Pictures:

PREPARE CHEELA BATTER

Take oats in a mixer jar and grind it to smooth powder.

Take the oats powder in a mixing bowl. Add besan, salt, red chili powder, turmeric powder, ajwain, chopped green chili, onion, capsicum and grated carrot. Finally add coriander leaves and give a mix

Mix everything well. Add water little by little and make a batter like dosa batter.

MAKING CHEELA

Heat a tawa, When the tawa is hot, pour a ladle of Oats cheela batter and spread it to thin circle with back of the ladle. Pour of teaspoon of oil around the cheela and cook cheela in medium flame. Then flip and cook on the other side. Repeat the same for the rest of the Cheela batter.