My Food Obession

Namaskaram,

 I have suddenly gone fibre crazy, hence started taking oats. Inspite of living 5 long years away from India, I still have my craving for food that are rich in oil and spice. What to do Control Nahi hota !. Hence I started experiment canadian food with Indian twist 😆. Warning sometimes these experiment can be disastrous. My hubby would agree...😉😛. Here is my first series contains Oats as main incredient.

Ingredients

 

Quick Oats                                                                                1 cup

 

Water                                      (thanni)                                       Enough to cover it

 

Yogurt                                     (thyru)                                        1/2 cup

 

Mustard                                   (kadugu)                                    1tsp

 

Cumin                                      (jeeragam)                                 1 tsp

 

Urad                                        (ulutham parupu)                        1tsp

 

Asefodita                                 (Payrungayam)                          1 pinch

 

Curry leaves                            (karuvaypalai)                              few leaves

 

Dried Yougurt chilli                   (more molaga)                            1( if you like spicy add more)

 

Salt                                         (uppu)                                       To taste

 

Oil                                           (yennai)                                    1tsp       

 

 

 

Procedure

 

1.    Take a pan, add oil, add mustard, Asefodita and curry leaves

2.     Once mustard starts sputtering, add Jeera and Ulutham parupu

3.     Once the Urad dal becomes brown pinkish colour, add the chilli

4.     Add oats, salt and water  and let it cook ( it takes 2-3 minutes) to cook. Adjust the water accordingly.

5.     Once the oats is cooked, switch off the stove take off from the heat and add Yogurt to it.

   

It tastes like Payrumal kovil thairsadham. Its yummy and full of fibre as it is oats. Enjoy and let me know your comments

If you have any good recipes for oats please post it here..

Note for Avai, Since I am on cooking spree and its healthy ( not liked by you) recipes I thought will post it here. If you want to merge it let me know Edited by Sati - 15 years ago

Welcome to this forum, Sati!  I have not met you before, but it sounds like you too are grappling with this weighty issue!  I know someone here who lost over 15 pounds by just going on an oats diet, so it may well be worth a try.  I bought oats last month as part of my New Year resolution, but ... it is still languishing in my pantry.  This friend had oats kanji for breakfast, oats with sambar and rasam for lunch, and oats with dal and sabji for dinner.  Let me see, I have a recipe for oats paratha, I will try and fish it out and post it.  Then you and I can start trying to lose weight together.  Are you game?  I will probably make your version of kanji on Monday and I will let you know the results.

Hey eljay, Edited by Sati - 15 years ago

Hi Sati

I don't like oats - until my English mum (a close friend who is like a mother to me) made me oats for brekkie during the cold winter days, Oats, hot milk, honey and banana. So nutritious.

Originally posted by: Karthikka

I don't like oats - until my English mum (a close friend who is like a mother to me) made me oats for brekkie during the cold winter days, Oats, hot milk, honey and banana. So nutritious.

 

Now I feel like having oats. 🤓

Well, I made oats for breakfast, cooked in hot water and added milk to it.  Then of course, I had a cup of coffee.  Lunch was rice with sambar, radish keerai koottu, and rasam.  For dinner, I made oats Kanji with Sati's recipe, big bowl of salad and sprouted moong misal.  My husband and dad also had two slices of bread, but I passed on the bread.  I feel good, no, great, so far about this diet.  How did you all fare today, my fellow travelers on this journey?

My early morning drink today was smoothie.  I had some strawberries, cooked oats, lowfat yoghurt, a pinch of salt blended together with ice.  A few slices of raisin-sunflower seed bread and an apple.

Last night dinner was veg meals.  There must be lots of calories on it. 😛 coz a bit of koothupratha, a bit of aloo gobi, a bit of mushroom rice, a bit of this and that. 

Caryn, I just looked up some recipes for oats upma.  They said to use 2 cups of water for 1 cup of oats, and the rest was just the way you said - dry roast the oats for 2 minutes, and then make upma the normal way.  I think I will try and do that today and let you all know how it turns out. 

My only problem was hunger pangs in the middle of the night!  I was dying to come to the kitchen and have some toast, but I forced myself to stay in bed and out of trouble.  Tonight I think I will have some fruit and milk before going to bed and see if it helps.

Hey guys, Edited by Sati - 15 years ago