Quick 5 minute oat dosas

                                                                              

Ingredients:

• Rolled oats - 1 cup
• Urad dal - 1/2 cup (slit black gram)
• Salt - 1/2 tsp
• Cooking soda - a pinch
• Water - ~2 cups or as needed to get the right consistency

Preparation:

1. Grind the oats and the Urad dal into a fine powder in a mixer
2. To the powdered mixture add salt and Cooking soda
3. Add water to the mixture and whisk thoroughly to make a fine paste with no lumps (consistency should be similar to the normal dosa batter)
4. Finally on a heated pan spread the mixture and roast it well to enjoy a crispy dosa (use ghee instead of oil to roast - it is yummy!)

A few chutney recipes  to go with it - Cabbage Chutney, bitter gourd chutney, Radish Chutney.

Eggless cookies!

Eggless Whole Wheat Oat and Chocolate chip Cookies

Ingredients

• Rolled oats (Quick cooking) - 1 1/2 cups
• Whole wheat flour - 1/2 cup
• Wheat bran - 1/3 cup
• Baking soda - 1/2 tsp
• Baking powder - 3/4 tsp
• Sea salt - 1/3 tsp
• Unsalted butter/ margarine (softened) - 1/2 cup
• Sugar (preferably brown sugar) - 1 cup
• Yogurt - 3 tbsp
• Vanilla extract - 1 tsp
• Chocolate chips - 1 1/4 cup

Preparation

1. Preheat oven to 180 C/ 350 F
2. Mill the oats in a food processor (I used the rolled oats as is, as it gives a nice rich, crunchy texture to the cookies)
3. In a medium sized bowl, combine all the dry ingredients (the oats, wheat flour, bran, baking powder, soda and salt) and set aside
4. In a relatively larger bowl, cream the butter until it is light and fluffy. Beat in the sugar and then the yogurt and the vanilla extract one at a time, beating for a couple of minutes after each addition
5. Add the dry mixture to this and mix well to create the dough. Add in the chocolate chips and stir to combine well
6. Make dough balls (each with 2 tbsp of the dough - this makes quite large cookies, adjust the amount of dough depending on the size you want)
7. Grease a baking tray. Place 6-8 dough balls on the baking tray and flatten so that each one is not more than 0.5 cm thick (a rough measure). Make sure to leave sufficient space between them since each dough ball needs space to rise and expand as it bakes
8. Place in the preheated oven and bake for 14-18 minutes (based on how chewy vs. crispy you want them)
9. Voila, the cookies are ready! These cookies are great to munch as is of course, but they are also great with vanilla ice cream or in an "Oreo" shake.

The Breakfast Cake

Ingredients

• Quick cooking oats - 1/2 cup
• All purpose flour - 1/2 cup 
• Apple and Banana - 1 each, pureed
• Sugar - 1/2 cup
• Yogurt - 1/4 cup
• Vegetable oil/ melted margarine - 1/4 cup 
• Vanilla essence - 1/2 tsp
• Baking powder - 1/2 tsp
• Baking Soda - 1/8 tsp
• Handful of chocolate chips
• Salt a pinch

Preparation

1. Grease a rectangular baking tray with oil and preheat the oven to 190 C/ 200F
2. Grind the oats
3. Mix all purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, powdered oats and salt in a bowl and mix well with a fork. 
4. To the fresh fruit puree, add yogurt and powdered sugar to make a thick batter
5. In a large bowl add the dry ingredients and chocolate chips into wet ingredients and mix lightly with a whisk to combine all the ingredients together.
6. Finally add the oil and mix well
7. Pour the batter in the greased baking tray and bake for 25-30 minutes

Recipe source: Sanjeeta K K