Oats Dosa

My husband is one of the health conscious guy. He always wants us to have at least one day oatmeal in a week for breakfast. He says it’s the world’s best healthiest food. Me and my kids don’t like oat meal at all. We have it as if we have some medicine. The little one doesn’t even have a spoon of it. The kids create a lot of tantrums when we say that today's breakfast is oatmeal. I was forced to find an alternative for this. Then looked in the internet and found oats dosai. I thought if incase the kids like it, it will the best find of mine ever and mainly get rid of the horrible oatmeal breakfast. I tried it with a little modification and it came out really awesome. You will not believe, the kids LOVED it. The older one said, "Mommy! You are tricking! This is not oat meal dosai... it is the regular dosai". Yes that is true. You cannot say that particular dosai is made of oats when you eat it. It goes well with Chutneys.

Here is the recipe for the same.

OATS DOSA:

3 cups - Steel cut oats/instant oats
1 1/2 cups - Par Boiled rice/ idly rice
1/2 cup - urud dhal

Soak rice and dhal together overnight and soak oats overnight if you use steel cut oats or if you use instant oats just soak for 1/2 hour before you grind. Next day morning, grind oats, rice and dhal together with less water as oats would have already got a lot of water absorbed. Make it to dosa batter consistency. Then had salt to it and mix it thoroughly. Keep aside for it to ferment. After fermenting, the batter is ready to use, you can use it right away or store in the refrigerator and use it later.

you can use the batter as such as like regular dosai or you can add mustard seeds, urud dhal make it splatter in a little oil and add finely chopped onions and finely chopped green chilies, finely chopped ginger and little coriander and curry leaves, sauté it and put it in the batter and make dosai.

Oats dosa doesn’t come out crispy, but it’s very soft that the kids love it and even the adults can have a different dosa apart from the regular rice dosa.

Chutney:

3/4 - big onion
1 - Big tomato
3 - Red chilies (or depending upon your spice level)
Handful of curry leaves
1/2 tsp - Asafoetida
One small piece of tamarind

Put a little oil in a pad and add mustard seeds and urud dhal to it. Allow it to splatter and then add Asafoetida and onions with red chilies. Sauté it well and then add curry leaves and tamarind. It has to sauté nicely and then add tomatoes. Add a little bit of salt to it. Then switch off the gas and allow it to cool for a while. Put the content in the blender and blend it nicely with very less water so that its consistency is almost semi solid. In the above content if you have coriander, you can add that as well while sautéing.

Oats Dosa with Chutney, mmmmm..... YUMMY!

I got good reviews from our friends here and the important thing was the kids love it the most.

Try it and enjoy a great tasty food which is healthy as well.


Slight modification:
Add couple of green chilies while grinding the batter and add whole cumin seeds to the batter just before you make dosa. This will give a slightly different flavor.