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Oats Upma Recipe | Healthy Vegetable Oats Upma for Breakfast | Easy Indian Breakfast Recipe

Breakfast Recipes | vegetarian

Ingredients

  • For roasting the oats
  • 1.5 cups oats
  • For the tempering
  • 3-4 tbsp oil or ghee
  • 3-4 tbsp cashews
  • Peanuts (optional)
  • 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
  • 1/4 tsp cumin
  • 1 tbsp ginger, chopped
  • 1 sprig curry leaves
  • 1/3 cup onion, thinly sliced
  • Salt
  • 2 green chilies, chopped
  • For the vegetables
  • 3 tbsp carrot, chopped
  • 3 tbsp french beans, chopped
  • 2 tbsp frozen peas
  • For cooking the upma
  • 3 cups hot water
  • 1/4 tsp turmeric (optional)
  • For finishing
  • A little coriander, chopped
  • 2-3 tbsp fresh coconut, grated
  • Juice of half a lemon

Instructions

  1. Add 1.5 cups oats to a pan and roast on low flame just until they turn warm. Move them to a plate and keep aside.
  2. Heat 3-4 tbsp oil or ghee in the same pan. Add 3-4 tbsp cashews and fry until golden red. Take them out and keep aside. You can fry peanuts too if you like.
  3. In the same oil, add 1/2 tsp mustard seeds and 1/4 tsp cumin and let them splutter. Add 1 tbsp chopped ginger and 1 sprig curry leaves and fry for a minute. Keep the ginger slightly crunchy.
  4. Add 1/3 cup thinly sliced onion and salt. Fry until the onion turns soft. Add 2 chopped green chilies and fry.
  5. Add 3 tbsp carrot and 3 tbsp french beans and fry for 4 minutes. Cover and cook for 4 more minutes, until they are 60-70% cooked. Add 2 tbsp frozen peas and fry for 4 minutes.
  6. Pour in 3 cups hot water, mix, cover and bring to a rolling boil. The vegetables will cook through by then.
  7. Add the roasted oats little by little, mixing well so no lumps form. While it cooks, add 1/4 tsp turmeric and mix.
  8. Cover and cook on medium flame for 7-8 minutes, until the oats upma thickens.
  9. Add a little chopped coriander, 2-3 tbsp grated coconut and the juice of half a lemon. Turn off the heat and mix. Top with the fried cashews and serve your healthy Oats Upma hot.