Masala Oats Paniyaram

This one is a great great breakfast  meal or lite dinner option - very quick to make, extremely light and very very healthy since this uses lot of veggies and almost no fat! I got this recipe online and made some minor modifications, but end product is so yummy that my sister, who hates the very mention of oats, has finally started eating them!

The below will make close to 27-28 paniyarams. Hence assuming one, if not like my elder brother, eats 8 to 9, this will suffice for 3 people. Those who like more generous quantities can double the ingredient amounts.

Ingredients 

• 1 cup oats (you can use quaker's)
• 1 cup curd
• 1/2 cup finely chopped onions
• 3/4 cup mixed veggies (I used carrots, cabbage etc - but you can pretty much use anything you like - beans, peas, corn, lentils etc). If you want to add slightly more veggies, that's also fine.
• 2 tbsp semolina
• 2 tsp rice flour
• 2 tsp chickpea flour
• 1 or 2 green chillies, finely chopped
• 2 tsp grated ginger
• Finely chopped coriander leaves
• Some curry leaves
• Pinch of asafoetida
• Pinch of soda
• Salt to taste (I used 1 1/2 tsp)
• Oil - few drops

Method

• Mix oats, semolina, curd, rice flour and chick pea flour in a bowl. Adjust the batter consistency by adding water or butter milk
• Add mixed veggies (you can pulse them for one round in mixer), finely chopped onions, green chillies, grated ginger and curry leaves.
• Add salt and soda.
• Allow the batter to rest for 10-15 mins so that oats gets soaked in curd.
• Heat the appe/ paniyaram pan.
• Add a drop of oil in each mould of the pan.
• If the batter is too thick, you can adjust the consistency of batter once again and spoon out into each mould until it fills upto 3/4th .
• Cook it covered over low flame.
• Flip them in between and cook on other side until they turn golden brown from all the side (takes 3-4 mins each side or lesser)
• Once done serve them warm with chutney of your choice or sauce.

And the dish looks like below and those (like me) who don't know what appe/ paniyaram pan looks like..a picture of the pan is added as well. :)