East meets West :A new take on food

East meets West :A new take on food

Who said being a diabetic means you have to give up all your south Indian food favorites .Here are two reciepes with a healty twist for you to enjoy.

Oats Idlie /Oats Dosa/Uttapam/Stuffed Pancakes
 A yummy tasty snack when served with curry/sambhar and accompaniments.Easy way to adding your qouta of fiber to your meal.Batter can be made the made the traditional way or by using instant oats too.Ideal to make in a ziffy for a busy working lifestyle.
Method 1
Ingredients
Oats (Quick/ Rolled) - 1 cup
Rice - 1 cup
Cooked rice(optional) - handful
urad dhal - 1/2 cup
fenugreek seeds - 1 tsp
salt - 2 tsp
oil - to grease the idli tray/ to make dosas

  1. Soak urad dal and rice separately for minimum 3 hours or overnight. Add the fenugreek seeds to the rice while soaking.
  2. Soak the oats for just 5 minutes before grinding.
  3.  Grind the urad dal separately till it become fluffy. 
  4. Grind the rice, oats, fenugreek seeds together with a handful of cooked rice. Adding cooked rice makes the idlis very fluffy.
  5. Finally mix everything together with required salt to make a nice batter.
  6.  Let it ferment overnight or until it doubles in volume.
  7.  Make idlis or dasas and serve with chutney, sambhar, some kurma or non veg curry.

Method 2
 Instant Oats Dosa. 
  1.  Soak the oats for 5 min in enough water. Grind it to a smooth batter with some sour yogurt. Flavour the batter with some cumin seeds, crushed pepper, chopped onions, grated ginger, curry leaves and chopped cilantro. Make dosas immediately and serve with any chutney of your choice.
  2.   If you want to make the dosas crispy, add some rava to the batter.

Method 3
 Most South India have the normal dosa batter at home everyday. Another variation is to mix 1 cups oats with 1 cups dosa batter and make Oats Uthappam. You can also top the uthappams with chopped onions, green chillies and cilantro.

Method 4
Stuffed pancakes can be made by oats dosa batter and stuffed with low fat cottage cheese,fresh or pre cooked vegetable etc.  Recipe by Dahlia