Vegetable Masala Oats Porridge

Posted on Jan 3rd, 2014

by Sowmya Venkatachalam

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Vegetable Masala Oats Porridge, a very healthy and tummy full breakfast for a wonderful morning. Adding vegetables and masala makes the simple oats porridge rich in taste and flavor. Even nutritionist also suggest us to take different form of oats instead of simple oats porridge with milk or yogurt. So These different varieties would encourage us to consume oats at regular intervals. I have seen many kids including my daughter who doesn’t prefer oats because of its sticky nature when cooked. But adding vegetables and masala make them to like oats and we are anyways enriching them with vegetables and hence it is healthy for them also.

Vegetable Masala Oats Porridge

Preparation Time	5 mins
Cooking Time	10 mins
Servings	2 persons

Ingredients:

Oats	1 Cup
Onion	1
Carrot	1
Peas	1 tablespoon
Green Chilli	1
Chopped Ginger	1 teaspoon
Curry Leaves	Few
Water	2.5 Cups
Salt	To Taste

For Seasoning:

Oil	1 teaspoon
Mustard Seeds	1/2 teaspoon
Cumin Seeds	1/2 teaspoon

Vegetable Masala Oats Porridge

Method:

Finely chop onions and keep it aside. Wash and peel the skin of carrot and finely chop it and add green peas to it and keep it ready. Heat a pan and add oil. When the oil is hot, add mustard seeds and when the mustard seeds starts to sputter add cumin seeds and fry for 5 seconds and then add chopped green chillies, ginger and curry leaves and fry for another 10 seconds

Then add chopped onions along with a pinch of salt and saute it till the onions turn transparent. Then add oats and fry for 3-4 minutes in a medium flame

Then add green peas and chopped carrots and stir fry them in medium-high flame till the carrots become tender

Then add water and required salt and keep the flame low. Allow the oats and the vegetables to cook completely in water. It will take 5-6 minutes till the oats gets cooked and the mixture becomes a nice porridge consistency