Oats Pongal is a healthy, tasty version of pongal and is made by cooking oats with moong dal, tempered spices and flavored with ghee, cashews. Oats Pongal is light as well as filling and hold the appetite for hours together. Learn to make Oats Pongal with step by step pictures.
Oats Pongal is a very healthy and easy to cook South Indian breakfast. Oats has been becoming very popular with all its health benefits and fast to cook texture. I make oats pongal just like we make ven pongal and it turned out very good. When served hot along with sambar and chutney I am sure everyone will love it.
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About Oats Pongal
Oats Pongal is a variety of pongal made with oats as main ingredient. This pongal is easy and quick to make so perfect when you crave for pongal suddenly. I have used quick cooking oats you can even use rolled oats but cooking time may vary.
Oats Pongal is a healthy alternate to our regular pongal, also lite on your tummy. This tastes great with sambar and chutney. You can even pair it up tomato gojju. Do try this easy, quick oats pongal and enjoy!
Oats Pongal Ingredients
- Oats – I used quick cooking oats. You can even use rolled or steel cut oats.
- Moong dal – Moong dal is cooked until mushy and used.
- Cashews – Cashews are fried in ghee and used.
- Tempering – A tempering is made using oil, ghee, pepper, curry leaves, green chilies, ginger and hing.
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How to make Oats Pongal Step by Step
1.Pressure cook moong dal along with 3/4 cup of water for 4-5 whistles or until mushy. Ghee fry the cashews until golden brown and keep it ready. Mash it well with a ladle, set aside. In a pan heat oil – add the items under ‘to temper’ let it splutter.
2.Then add water and let it boil, add oats and mashed dal together, mix well and let it cook for 2-3 minutes.
3.Once oats is cooked and it reaches a semi thick consistency, add the cashews, give a quick stir and switch off.
Serve hot with a drizzle of ghee on top along with chutney and sambar.
Expert Tips
- Adjust water according to the consistency you like your pongal to be.
- Drizzle ghee, garnish with cashews while serving to give the pongal a more appealing look.
- If you don’t like whole pepper corns then crush it coarsely.
Serving and Storing
Ven pongal is best when served hot. I would not recommend storing pongal as it tends to turn thick after cooling down.
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Oats Pongal Recipe
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup oats
- 1/4 cup moong dal
- 5 cashews broken
- 3/4 water
- salt to taste
To temper:
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 2 teaspoon ghee
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper whole or crushed roughly
- few curry leaves
- 1 green chillies
- 1/2 teaspoon ginger chopped finely
- 1/8 teaspoon hing
Instructions
- Pressure cook moong dal along with 3/4 cup of water for 4-5 whistles or until mushy. Ghee fry the cashews until golden brown and keep it ready.Mash it well with a laddle, set aside. In a pan heat oil – add the items under ‘to temper’ let it splutter.
- Then add water and let it boil, add oats and mashed dal together, mix well and let it cook for 2-3 minutes.
- Once oats is cooked and it reaches a semi thick consistency, add the cashews, give a quick stir and switch off.
- Serve hot with a drizzle of ghee on top along with chutney and sambar.
- Adjust water according to the consistency you like your pongal to be.
- Drizzle ghee, garnish with cashews while serving to give the pongal a more appealing look.
- If you don’t like whole pepper corns then crush it coarsely.
Sangeetha Nambi
Lipsmacking !
Gauri
I like to make boring plain oats interesting.. this is one such recipe! Very healthy and filling!
JEYASHRI SURESH
Healthy way to start the day, loved the lighting in the second pic
Priya Suresh
Love this healthy pongal..Inviting.
Arthy Suman
i feel like grabbing the bowl now, very creamy
Vijayalakshmi Dharmaraj
wow it looks super tempting…
Priya Yallapantula
wow, love the idea and picture guide is just awesome 🙂
Please do send it to my "Healthy Me & Healthy Us" event (read the rules).
sindhu chandran
Wow Superb pics… I just tried this couple of weeks ago and also posted it on my blog !! 🙂
Apu
Very nice – this is a regular breakfast feature at my home too!
AparnaRajeshkumar
super picture Sharmi !
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I have also made it last week and posted in my drafts. Looks amazing and guilt free sa there is no rice!
Is thre a reason why your blog does NOT allow wordpress???
Shobha
sowmya
Nice pic. It is so inviting!
Gayathri Ramanan
healthy breakfast recipe..really tempting
Prahalad Karnam
Great,..really tempting and new recipe which is healthy. Thanks
Nithya
I made this once for my hubby and he liked it 🙂 I added 1/2 a cup of milk too with this to make it creamy. But its best when served hot 🙂
Vanamala Hebbar
Nice and healthy
Peggy G.
This looks like a great breakfast!
Snigdha Ghosh Roy
i tried it just now!!! its awesome!!! thanks for priding me with a great breakfast option!!
keerthi
i tried this one it comes good and my family members liked it
Minu Anish
Thanks a lot for sharing such wide varieties of oats recipes.. It does help me in my dieting… I hv tried this one and in the coming days your recipes will fill my days… 🙂
Keep posting.
Luv
Minu
Padma Pai
thanx for the recipe….i tried it….simply wonderful….cant make out the difference…