South Indian oats recipes
South Indian oat recipes: upma, idli, dosa, uttapam, pongal, adai and bisi bele bath. Oats slip into the tiffin box without anyone filing a complaint.
14 recipes on file
- Drinks · South Indian · 11 min
Ragi Oats Malt
Karnataka's ragi java, thickened with powdered oats and finished with jaggery, cardamom and warm milk. A glass of breakfast in ten minutes.
- Breakfast · South Indian · 50 min
Oats Uttapam
Thick, soft-centred uttapams from a 20-minute oats, rava and besan batter, crowned with onion, tomato and capsicum that caramelise against the hot tawa.
- Breakfast · South Indian · 25 min
Oats Upma
Rava upma's quicker cousin. Toasted oats, a crackling South Indian tadka and a fistful of vegetables, on the table in 25 minutes with nothing clumping.
- Breakfast · South Indian · 30 min
Oats Pongal
Ven pongal with oats standing in for rice: soft moong dal, creamy oats and a ghee tadka loud with black pepper, cumin and cashews. Comfort in about 30 minutes.
- Breakfast · South Indian · 275 min
Oats Pesarattu
Andhra's green moong dosa with oats ground into the batter. Bright green, gingery and crisp, with a scatter of onion on top. Soak in the morning, eat by breakfast.
- Breakfast · South Indian · 50 min
Oats Paniyaram
Crisp-shelled, soft-centred kuzhi paniyaram from an instant oats and curd batter. No leftover dosa batter needed, just a paniyaram pan and 20 minutes at the stove.
- Snacks · South Indian · 65 min
Oats Murukku
Rice flour, roasted oat flour and pottukadalai, pressed into spirals and fried till they crackle. A Diwali tin staple, with an air-fryer route too.
- Snacks · South Indian · 165 min
Oats Masala Vada
Coarse chana dal, quick oats, fennel and curry leaves, pressed into vadas with craggy, crunchy edges. Deep-fried, shallow-fried or air-fried, your call.
- Breakfast · South Indian · 50 min
Instant Oats Idli
Soft, spongy idlis with no overnight fermentation. Ground oats, rava and curd, a quick tadka and a spoon of fruit salt, steamed in 12 minutes flat.
- Breakfast · South Indian · 50 min
Instant Oats Dosa
A lacy, crisp dosa built like rava dosa, with toasted oat flour doing half the work. No grinding of soaked rice, no fermentation, just a thin batter and a very hot tawa.
- Savoury · South Indian · 75 min
Oats Bisi Bele Bath
Karnataka's hot, tangy lentil-and-vegetable one-pot, made with roasted oats in place of rice. Tamarind, bisi bele bath powder, ghee and a cashew tadka.
- Breakfast · South Indian · 160 min
Oats Adai
A thick, crisp-edged adai made with four dals and oats instead of rice. Soak for two hours, grind coarse, and cook slowly until the edges crackle.
- Savoury · South Indian · 15 min
Lemon Oats
Everything you love about lemon rice, in ten minutes, with oats. Mustard, curry leaves, crunchy peanuts and dals, turmeric and a bright squeeze of lemon.
- Overnight Oats · South Indian · 373 min
Curd Oats (Thayir Oats)
Curd rice, but with oats soaked overnight in curd and milk. In the morning: a sizzling tempering of mustard, dal and curry leaves, and breakfast is done.