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oats adai – healthy breakfast

oats adai – healthy South Indian breakfast

Oats adai recipe is one of the quick healthy breakfast ideas.

Adai or ada dosa is a protein rich South Indian breakfast dish made with rice and lentils spiced with cumin seeds, asafoetida powder, red chili and other spices. Today’s recipe is a healthy breakfast adai recipe made with oats. Since it is made with oats and lentils, it can be called as oats adai.

I have added drumstick leaves, and hence it can also be called as oats muringa ela adai or oats muringa keerai adai. Drumstick leaves are called as muringa ela in Malayalam and muringai keerai in Tamil.

The method of preparing oats adai is very similar to that of normal adai recipe, except that oats is added instead of rice.

Oats adai is very easy to prepare. There is no need of fermentation. You just have to soak all the lentils for 2 hours, and then grind together with oats. And as soon as the batter is ready, the adai can be made. I always love Indian style oats dishes like oats upma, oats dosa, oats adai, oats kozhukkattai, and many others.

This oats adai will not be very crisp like the normal adai we make, since I have used only oats and no rice. But if you want crispy adai dosa, then you can also add one handful of rice while soaking lentils for adai.

The addition of drumstick leaves to this adai dosa is optional. I have added drumstick leaves because I was in my native and we get a lot of fresh drumstick leaves there. Here, I don’t get drumstick leaves regularly. So I wanted to use the fresh ones as much as possible in my diet.

If you don’t find drumstick leaves, you can also replace it with vegetables or any other spinach variety.

Serve oats adai with coconut chutney, sambar, sugar, jaggery or with idli podi. I love adai with coconut chutney, but I was in my native and we were planning for an outing. So I served it with sambar which I had prepared for lunch.

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Let us see how to make oats adai with step by step pictures.

Oats adai

how to make oats adai recipe with step by step pics

1. Clean and wash all the dals. Soak all the dals together in enough water for 2 – 3 hours. Drain the excess water from the dal and keep aside. Don’t throw the water away. it can be used while grinding.

2. Add ginger, dry red chili, cumin seeds, shallots into a mixer jar and grind it to a coarse mixture. Add the soaked dal, oats, and grind it once. Then add water little by little and grind it to a coarse mixture. Transfer it to a bowl.

3. To this adai batter, add drumstick leaves, chopped curry leaves, hing and salt. Mix well.

4. Heat a tawa or griddle. Grease it with oil. When the tawa is hot enough, add one ladleful of batter into the hot tawa. Drizzle 1 teaspoon of oil around the edges and at the center. Reduce the flame to low and let the adai cook on low flame. When one side is cooked, the edges will start leaving the pan.

5. Flip it to the other side and let it cook on that side too. Drizzle half teaspoon of oil on the top. Transfer it to a serving plate.

6. Serve hot with sambar or coconut chutney or with idli podi.

Oats adai recipe | South Indian breakfast

oats adai recipe below

Oats adai

Prep time

2 hours

Cook time

30 mins

Total time

2 hours 30 mins

Oats adai - healthy, tasty and easy to make breakfast dish with oats.

Author: Lisha Aravind

Recipe type: Breakfast

Cuisine: South Indian

Serves: 3

Ingredients

Oats - 1 cup
drumstick leaves - ¾ cup (optional)
toor dal - ¼ cup
chana dal - ¼ cup
urad dal - 2 tablespoons
green moong dal - ¼ cup
shallots - 2 - 3
green chili - 3 - 4
cumin seeds - 1 teaspoon
ginger - ¼-inch piece
asafoetida powder or hing - ¼ teaspoon
curry leaves - few chopped
salt - tp taste
oil - for making adai

Method

Clean and wash all the dals. Soak all the dals together in enough water for 2 - 3 hours.
Drain the excess water from the dal and keep aside. Don't throw the water away. it can be used while grinding.
Add ginger, dry red chili, cumin seeds, shallots into a mixer jar and grind it to a coarse mixture.
Add the soaked dal, oats, and grind it once. Then add water little by little and grind it to a coarse mixture.
Transfer it to a bowl.
To this adai batter, add drumstick leaves, chopped curry leaves, hing and salt. Mix well.
Heat a tawa or griddle. Grease it with oil.
When the tawa is hot enough, add one ladleful of batter into the hot tawa.
Drizzle 1 teaspoon of oil around the edges and at the center.
Reduce the flame to low and let the adai cook on low flame. When one side is cooked, the edges will start leaving the pan.
Flip it to the other side and let it cook on that side too. Drizzle half teaspoon of oil on the top.
Transfer it to a serving plate.
Serve hot with sambar or coconut chutney or with idli podi.