Oats and vegetable upma -Healthy breakfast recipes

• Oats, roasted – 100 gm
• Lemon juice – 4 tsp
• Water – 1 cup
• Turmeric powder – a pinch
• Salt to taste
• Green peas – 20 gm
• Carrot – 20 gm,chopped and blanched
• French beans – 20 gm chopped and cooked
• Green chillies – 2 chopped vertically
• Ginger,chopped – 2 tsp
• Onion – 1 sliced
• Cashewnuts – 2 tsp
• Moong dal,urad dal – 1 tsp each rinsed
• Mustard seeds – half tsp
• Ghee – 1 tbsp
• Curry leaves – a few

Method

• Heat 3/4 tbsp ghee in a deep frying pan over high heat.
• Add mustard seeds,curry leaves,urad dal and moong dals.  Saute for a minute.
•  Add sesame seeds and cooks over low heat
• Add onion,ginger and green chillies.  Cook until onion become transparent.
• Add beans,carrots and peas and cook.
• Add turmeric powder and water.  Season with salt and mix well.
• Bring to a boil and reduce the heat and cover.
• Let it cook until the water is half absorbed
• Add oats, mix well and cover.  Let it cook until all the water is absorbed an the oats are flaky.
• Remove from heat.
• Add lemon juice.
• Fry cashew nuts in 1/4 tbsp ghee and garnish the upma

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