Oats Chilla
Oats chilla is a healthy Indian Vegetarian breakfast recipe with oats. Instant breakfast recipe, Budget Friendly and easy for working moms and bachelors.
Servings 10 nos.
Equipment
- Dosa Tava or Griddle
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cups Oats (Rolled Oats + Instant Oats) 1 cup is 250 ml measurement
- 1 cup Besan or Chickpea Flour 1 cup is 250 ml measurement
- 2 nos Onions (finely chopped)
- 1 tbsp Ginger Paste 1 tbsp is 15 ml measurement
- 4 nos. Green chillies
- 2 tbsp Mixed Seeds (flax, pumpkin, melon, sesame) 1 tbsp is 15 ml measurement
- 1/4 tsp Red Chilli powder (Kashmiri)
- 1/4 tsp Turmeric Powder or Haldi Powder
- A generous pinch of hing or asafoetida
- Water as required to make the batter
- Finely chopped coriander leaves as required
- Oil as required to cook the chilla
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- Dry Roast the oats and keep aside for cooling.
- Measure and add roasted oats (rolled + instant) in a mixer grinder jar and grind it to fine powder texture. (READ NOTES BELOW)
- In a bowl, sieve the besan or chickpea flour and add the powdered oats
- Add finely chopped onions, coarsely ground mix of ginger and green chillies, seed mix, hing or asafoetida, turmeric powder, red chilli powder and salt to taste.
- Now add water and slowly mix it until you achieve a thick pouring consistency batter. Whisk the batter well to avoid lumps.
- Heat a pan or griddle, season it with oil and pour a ladle or two of the oats chilla batter. Spread the batter evenly.
- Pour oil on all sides and let it cook on medium heat.
- Flip and cook the other side as well by pouring oil on all sides.
- Serve it hot with a chutney of your choice and tomato ketchup.
Notes
- In order to save time, I often dry roast the oats, cool and grind them. It is always available in our refrigerator to make quick chilla in the morning. Makes it simpler to add to a variety of recipes.
- Roasting is not compulsory but gives a good taste to the chilla.
- Sifting flours for any batter, especially in case of instant varieties of pancakes, dosa, crepes etc is highly recommended for a lump free batter.
- For kids, you can cook the chilla in ghee. Highly nutritious and develops a good taste too.
- Add grated vegetables like cabbage, carrot or steamed peas, sweet corn for kids. It is recommended to grate the cabbage and carrot finely and roughly chop the peas, corn before adding to the batter, else it might be difficult to spread.