Oats Kanji

Very healthy and nutritious Oats gruel is a quicky. I always preferred Oats to other porridge ingredients, coz of the fiber content and cholesterol lowering properties. My mom used to prepare it with buttermilk and salt and my MIL with milk and jaggery. The salt version tastes like porridge and the jaggery one like payasam, both yummy in their own way.

Ingredients

Oats 2 tbsp

Water - 1/2 cup

Jaggery - 1 1/2 tbsp (shredded)

Milk - 1 cup

or

Butter Milk - 1 cup

Cumin powder - 1/4 tsp

Carom seed powder - 1/4 tsp

Asafoetida - 1/4 tsp

Salt to taste

Method

Boil water and add the oats and keep stirring for 5 minutes.

For the sweet version, when the oats is cooked well add jaggery and milk. Tastes well when consumed warm.

For the salt version, once oats is cooked switch off gas, add buttermilk, cumin powder, carom seed powder, asafoetida and salt. You can try this with a piece of narthangai or mavadu thanni.

Bon Appetit!!
Rudra