Oats Spinach Idli

About this Recipe...

Oats or oatmeal is a very healthy cereal grain, grown from its seed. Oats has numerous uses in foods. You can make so many dishes with this oats. So I wanted to try the healthy oats Idli for a long time. Oats Idli has all the goodness of oats, rava, yogurt and veggies, a complete healthy breakfast or snacks for your family.

The best thing about this oats idli is its instant, so no prior preparation is required to make this idlis. I always make my idlis in microwave, so it's saves more of my time and the idlis are also getting ready very quickly. I wanted to make it more healthy so added spinach purée to the idli batter and my iron rich instant oats idlis are ready. Spinach gives a very nice green color to these idlis. Serve this beautiful idli with Sambar and your favorite chutney.

Ingredients

• 1 Cup Plain old fashioned oats
• 1/2 Cup Semolina
• 1 Tbsp Oil
• 1 tsp Mustard seeds
• 1/2 tsp Cumin seeds
• 2 Tbsp Broken cashew nuts
• 1 Tbsp Bengal gram lentil or Chana Daal
• 1/8 tsp Asafoetida
• 1 tsp Black gram lentil or Urad daal
• 1/4 Cup Chopped Onion
• 5-6 curry leaves chopped
• 1 tsp Finely chopped ginger
• 2 Green chilles finely chopped
• Salt to taste
• 1/2 Cup Plain yogurt
• 1 Cup Spinach puree
• 1 tsp Eno fruit salt
• Oil for greasing the idli moulds

Directions

1. Dry roast the oats for 2-3 minutes. Now transfer it to a blender and make a fine powder out of it.
2. Now heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds, cumin seeds and asafoetida for tempering.
3. Now add broken cashew nut, Bengal gram and black gram lentil and fry them till it changes the color lightly.
4. Now add chopped onion, ginger, green chilies and curry leaves to it and sauté them till it gets translucent.
5. Next add semolina and salt to it and mix it well with everything. Fry it for few minutes and switch off the flame.
6. Now transfer the mixture to a mixing bowl and let it cool down.
7. Now add the oats powder, yogurt and spinach purée to it and mix it well to get a nice Idli batter. Give it a rest for 15-20 minutes before making Idli.
8. Now put 1 cup of water to the microwave safe idli maker and microwave it for 2 minutes.
9. Grease the idli moulds with oil. Now add 1 tsp of Eno fruit salt to the idli batter.
10. Immediately you will see some air bubbles are forming on the batter, gently mix the batter and pour it to the idl moulds.
11. Now keep the idli moulds in the idli maker and microwave it for 5-6 minutes.
12. Check the idli by inserting a fork, if it comes clean, it means the idli is cooked nicely.
13. Serve the hot idli with Sambar and coconut chutney.