This double whammy was what really led to my search for an alternative to my regular breakfast of cereal or oats with milk; something lower in sugar as well as calcium and ready to make in minutes. Since I like oats a lot, I didn't want to give it up, and thought that something made with it would really fit the bill.
Inspiration Strikes
Earlier this year I did a 5K run, at the end of which runners were rewarded to a nourishing Pongal breakfast sponsored by a local restaurant. The soft, well cooked runny rice and dal seasoned with whole black peppers, curry leaves and cashews, with a river of ghee flowing through it was a delicious way to replenish spent calories, and then some.
That was the source of inspiration to try making such a pongal at home for breafast, not with rice, but oats. I turned to my favorite book of Tamilian cooking, 'Dakshin', knowing that it had a pongal recipe. I substituted the rice and moong dal with an equivalent amount of oats by volume, and used just a teaspoon of ghee, brought way down from the stated amount. I absolutely loved the result and I am quite hooked to it now.

Method to make Pongal Style Oats
Cook about a cup of steel-cut Irish oats with four cups of water. You can even do this in a pressure cooker. When you are ready to make the pongal, make a coarse powder with a pinch of cumin seeds and a few black peppercorns in a mortal and pestle. Grate a little ginger to yield about half a teaspoon. In a sauce pan, heat a little ghee, add the powder to it, along with a few fresh leaves of curry patta, a tablespoon of chopped cashews, hing, grated ginger, and stir it together, followed immediately by the cooked oats. Add a pinch of salt, and some water as required, a little at a time, to keep the oats mixture to a runny consistency.
You could also add a tiny pinch of turmeric to the oats, and additional ghee if you like.
I am sending this to WBB #13 : Oats.


























18 comments:
Incredible idea. Oats is the perfect texture a pongal should have.
very healthy pongal .Different one .
Hi
You've been tagged
http://komalzdesai.blogspot.com/2007/07/7-random-facts.html
brilliant. i am partial to steel cut oats too.
Very innovative, and perhaps, the best way to eat gooey oats. :-D
Hey, take care. I hope your reports are normal now and that you are feeling better, too.
What a name!! :) Lovely recipe ET. :)
wow the dish is looking excellent!
Take care ,lady.
The oats looks delicious.
I tagged you for the random facts me-me, but I noticed you've already been tagged.
http://the-cooker.blogspot.com/2007/07/me-me-divine-flower.html
YUM!! Sounds and looks great.I will make it although I have to the regular Quick Oats.Thanks.
Pretty dish, looks yummy. I love carbs too and I'd have a hard time cutting back.
I'm glad you found an alternative that has you hooked. Anything to have those oats huh? :)
Yum! i love oats and pongal. I use oats that aren't quick cooking but arn't as slow as steel cut and get done in about 5-10 minutes and this would be perfect with it.
Thanks you all for leaving your comments.
Hi Komal! Your first comment here and you are tagging me? Ok, I'll play - just give me a little time. Had never seen your blog before but I will be coming over again.
Anita, steel cut oats do not get gooey at all, and retain a lot of texture!
Hello and welcome also to Deepa and Archana (mama of twins, awww)
This sounds so very very good.
vegeyum, thanks. I hope you give it a try.
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