This flavored idli is made with cooking oats and garnished with spices and pepper.
Oats Idli
Course: BreakfastCuisine: IndianDifficulty: EasyServings
4
servingsPrep time
5
minutesCooking time
25
minutesThis flavored idli is made with cooking oats and garnished with spices and pepper.
Ingredients
Quick cooking Oats – One and half cups
Rawa – 1 cup
Curd – 2 cups
Salt – 1 teaspoon or as per taste
Eno Fruit Salt (Regular) – 1/2 teaspoon
- For seasoning:
Oil – 4 to 5 teaspoons
Mustard – 1/2 teaspoon
Urad dhal – 1 teaspoon
Bengal gram dhal – 1 teaspoon
Pepper and Jeera – Crushed coarsely 1 teaspoon
Green chillies – 2 to 3
Fresh ginger – a small piece chopped finely
Cashew nuts – few (Optional)
Directions
- In a thick bottomed pan, add the oil and when it is hot add mustard, urad dhal, bengal gram dhal, pepper and jeera, green chillies and chopped ginger. Fry till the dhals become light brown.
- Then add oats and rawa to the seasoning and fry for few seconds or till it is hot to touch (Need not fry for a long time).
- Cool it and add salt.
- Add beaten curd and soak for only 5 to ten minutes.
- Add the fruit salt on top of the idli batter and pour one tablespoon water on the fruit salt. Then mix well. If necessary add little water and make the batter like idli batter.
- Pour water in the idli cooker and bring to boil. Grease idli plate and pour the idli batter and steam cook it for 8 to 10 minutes. Make sure the water boils well before keeping the idli stand in the idli cooker.
Notes
- Before pouring the batter in the idli plate, you can sprinkle little carrot gratings / tomato cut into small stripes in the idli plate and then pour the batter over it. You will get colourful idli.
- Also you can add a cup of cut vegetables like green peas, carrot, cauliflower to the batter and make vegetable idli also.
- If you are using whole oats, then just grind to a coarse powder like rawa and then add it.
- If you do not have Fruit Salt, then add a pinch of cooking soda.
I too make this..healthy brkfast
Madam,
I follow ur recipes it's coming out very nice. Can I have recipe For kozhukkattai mauve
Thanks and regards
Geetha
Hi Geetha,
Thank you for your kind feed back on my recipes.
I am reposting shortly "Kozhukattai" recipe with making the Mel Mauvu in different method.
your receipies are simply superb.Nice and colorful pictures and easy to follow receipies.I always visit ur blog for receipies.Keep up the good work.Thanks
Viji
Aunty,
I tried the Oats idli.It was good.I loved it.We have to use ordinary rawa or idli rawa?
What chutney goes good with this dish?
Hi Agnes,
Nice to see your feedback here. You can use ordinary rawa. Onion or garlic chutney goes well with this. Even you can serve it with sambar.
hi kamala,
what is eno fruit salt… do u have any substitute if v dont get it….
there is no eno fruit salt available here , what to do ?
Hi Sara,
As I already mentioned in the above recipe, if you do not have fruit salt, you can use little cooking soda. (only few pinches).
I had oats idly in a friends house. It was nice, but I tried it myself, it was not to the mark. Your recipe looks complete. Will surely give it a try and get back to you.
Thanks
Since we are adding Rawa along with Oats, it wil come out good and we can have the benefit of eating oats too. Pl try and let me know the outcome.
hi! the idlis have come out very well! Thanks for an accurate measurement!
Thank you Lalitha.
Hi. i wanted to check if I can make these Idlis without using Rava. Please reply. Thanks and Regards
Hi Vinita,
Yes. You can prepare this idli without rawa also. However, it wil be hard and little sticky.
Hi, kamal
Is rice rawa or sooji rawa
It is sooji rawa.
Hi Kamala,
I tried out this recipe yesterday. It tasted good, however, the idly was little sticky.
Can u tell me what would be the possible reason for this?
Hi Srividhya,
Thanks for trying this recipe and your feed back. You cannot completely remove the stickiness since oat is sticky only.
Thanks Kamala.
by rava, do you mean idli rava or soji rava
It is sooji rawa.