Steel Cut Oats Upma

Oats upma is an Indian style savory oats. A quick, healthy breakfast to start the day.

Course Breakfast

Cuisine Indian, South Indian

Prep Time 2

Cook Time 15

Resting Time 10

Servings

Calories 271kcal

Wash, chop onion and ginger, and cut green chilies. Wash curry leaves and if the leaves are big, tear the leaves to two.
Set instant pot on sauté setting. Add oil and once hot add Urad dal, mustard & cumin seeds. Follow the same steps even for Indian cooker.
When the seeds splutter, add green chilies, ginger and sauté for a few seconds.
Add curry leaves, peanuts and continue to sauté for another ½ a minute or until peas start to change color.
Then sauté onions, then Add salt, oats and roast until oats are light brown. This takes about a minute.
Add water and give a good stir.
Cancel sauté setting.
Close the lid, vent in the sealing position.
Pressure cook for 5 minutes on manual or pressure cook setting. With Indian cooker, 4-5 whistles.
Let the pressure release manually, about 10-12 minutes.
Open the lid, give a good stir, sprinkle cilantro and serve.

Ghee - Use a combination of ghee and oil or only ghee for more flavor. It tastes good even with oil but ghee increases the taste quotient to another level.
Indian Pressure Cooker - I prefer cooking steel cut oats in IP. With Indian pressure cookers, do 4-5 whistles/hisses. I avoid these cookers as oats tend to get stuck in the pressure vent or spills out.
Variation - For a tangy flavor, add some tomatoes. After sautéing onions, add chopped tomatoes, salt and sauté until tomatoes are soft. Then add oats and continue with rest of the preparation.
Rolled Oats - Follow above instructions but on stovetop in a saucepan or a sauté pan. You can skip onion and ginger, if you wish. You can replace peanuts with green peas or veggies now. Cook oats with 1:1 ½ oats to water ratio and cook on medium flame.
Nutrition - Values listed are approximate calculations.