Bachelor Cooking # 7 - Oats Upma

Oats Upma Recipe 

Ingredients

Oats - 1/2 cup

Rava /sooji - 1/4 cup 
Onion -1
Green chilli - 1 finely chopped 
Ginger- 1 inch piece finely chopped
Mixed vegetables - 1 cup (little of carrot, beans, capsicum, peas)
Water- 3/4 cup

Salt as required

For the seasoning

Oil - 1 tbsp

Mustard seeds -1 tsp
Hing- a pinch

Urad dal- 1/2 tsp

Red chilli -1

Curry leaves-few

Preparation

• Dry roast oats for a few minutes, until it becomes slightly hot to touch.  Dry roast rava also. 
• Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, when it splutters, add the rest of the ingredients mentioned under seasoning.
• Add finely chopped onions, chilli, ginger and saute till onions turn slightly brown
• Add all the vegetables, saute for a few minutes, then add 3/4 cup of water and salt required.
• When water comes to boil, simmer the flame, add rava stirring continuously and cook till it is half done.
• Then add oats, cover and cook till done. (oats need less time and less water to get cooked, so you can add it, after rava is half cooked)

Eat it with any chutney, or simply curd.

Cheers!