Oats Idli & Healthy Sambar

Ingredients for Oats Idli:

1. Black gram – 50 gm
   Raw rice – 100 gm
2. Oats – 100 gm
   Water -As needed
3. Salt – For taste

Ingredients for Healthy Sambar:

4. Pumpkin – 100 gm, chopped
   Ash gourd, okra, tomato, broccoli, onion – 50 gms each, chopped
   Long beans, Chow chow, Ivy gourd, cucumber – 30 gms each, chopped
   Salt – To taste
   Turmeric powder – A pinch
   Ginger chopped – 1 small spoon
   Green chillies chopped – 1 small spoon
   Garlic chopped – 2 cloves
5. Water – As required
6. Oil – 1 small spoon
7. Mustard, fenugreek – ½ spoon each
   Shallots – 20 gm, chopped
   Curry leaves – 1 stem
8. Turmeric powder – A little
   Sambar powder – 1 big spoon
   Asafoetida powder – 2 pinches
9. Tamarind – Gooseberry-sized, squeezed in water.

How to prepare Oats Idli?

1. Soak rice and black gram, and make a fine paste.
2. Add oats and sufficient water to it, and prepare the batter.
3. Allow it to rest for 8 hours or more to ferment.
4. Add salt to the batter, and steam cook the idlis.

How to prepare Healthy Sambar?

1. Cook ingredients no: 4 adding water.
2. Heat oil in a pan and add mustard and fenugreek seeds.
3. Add sliced shallots and curry leaves too, and fry the ingredients.
4. Add ingredients no: 8 to the oil and add tamarind juice too.
5.  When it comes to a boil, add the cooked vegetables.
6. Boil your sambar, and if needed, add extra salt.

Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine, Jul 8 – 21, 2023

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