Oats upma is a wholesome South Indian-style breakfast made with oats, vegetables and simple tempering. It is a healthier alternative to regular upma with rava and very easy, one of the healthy breakfast ideas you can put together on busy mornings.
Oats upma is a perfect way to start your day or even a quick fix for one person anytime meal of the day.
Check out my Oats dal kara paniyaram and this lip smacking Masala oats recipe in my website.
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About Oats upma
Upma is a staple breakfast in most Indian households because it is quick, flexible and comforting. This vegetable oats upma keeps the familiar taste of upma intact while swapping rava for oats, making it a very good oats recipe for weight loss and everyday eating.
After all these festivals and all these cooking plus Vj's busy office schedule, I failed to keep track of my weight. No proper workouts that I do usually too. After a month when I saw my weight I was plus 2 kg.
So I thought it's high time to get back to tract and wanted first to cut down my rice intake. I love oats and make few dishes out of it, as you can check it here in my Indian style oats recipes for breakfast.
Only thing, I must want everything hot, whatever it is I can eat. And this upma is one I often make but never thought of blogging about it here. I cheat sometimes making it without vegetables.
It's always better to add few vegetables, to make it healthy and tasty too. Such simple and easy recipe you can make it for yourself. I had with fresh squeezed orange juice.
And here is the cute napkin you gave Sharmi, atlast I used it properly and thanks for the same 🙂
Why I love this?
This oats upma is
- Fluffy, not gooey
- Ready in 15 minutes
- Tasty with south Indian familiar temperings
- High in fibre, keeps full long, naturally filling and thus weight management
- Nutritious with vegetables, light with coconut oil
Oats upma Ingredients
Here are the ingredients to make Oats upma
- Oats - I used quick cook oats
- Vegetables - Carrot, beans, green peas
- Onion - For flavour base
- Green chilli - Gives you spice & flavour
- Tempering items - Mustard seeds, urad dal, chana dal provides upma's flavour.
- Curry leaves - For flavour
Please check my recipe card below for quantities.
Step by step photos
- Firstly, finely chop half of a carrot, 4 beans, a fist full of frozen peans and onion. Slit green chillies.
- Then, heat oil in a pan and temper with the items given under 'To temper', then add onion and fry until translucent.
- After that, add vegetables, green chillies and fry in medium flame for 2 minutes. Sprinkle a little salt just for the vegetables if you want.
- Add oats, salt and mix well for a minute. Add ¼ cup water and mix well and cook covered for 2 minutes.
- Later again sprinkle the remaining water and mix well and cook covered for another 2 minutes. This way it wont turn too gooey but still gets cooked moist. Top with coconut oil or sesame oil if desired.
Always eat hot immediately. I have it as such, if you want you can eat it with any chutney or sambar.
Top tips
Cook the vegetables without changing colour/ overcooking it. So always do in medium flame.
Chopping vegetables very fine lets it cook fast while frying. itself.
Water ratio depends on type of oats.
Substitutions & Variations
Oats - You can adapt the same way for steel cut oats too. Just increase the water quantity as it takes a while for cooking.
So for steel cut oats you need the reverse. ½ cup steel cut oats needs 1 cup water.
Same for rolled oats. You can choose to sprinkle water as you cook to avoid it becoming sticky.
Add peanuts, cashews or seeds for crunch.
FAQs
Yes, you can use any type of oats, just water quantity varies.
Do not add all water at once, add little by little in stages.
200-250 calories.
Serving suggestion
Oats upma tastes best when enjoyed hot. You can have it as such or with some peanut chutney/ coconut chutney as side dish.
Recipe card
Oats Upma Recipe | Vegetable oats upma
Ingredients
- 1 cup Quick cook oats
- 1 Onion
- ¾ cup Mixed vegetables
- 3 Green chilli
- ½ cup Water
- Salt
- 1 teaspoon Coconut oil/ sesame oil
To temper
- 2 teaspoon Coconut Oil cold pressed virgin
- ½ teaspoon Mustard
- 1 teaspoon Urad dal
- 2 teaspoon Chana dal
- 1 Curry leaves 1 sprig
Instructions
- Chop vegetables and onion finely. I used ½ a carrot, 4 beans and a fist full of frozen peas. slit green chillies.
- Heat oil in a pan and temper with the items given under 'To temper', then add onion and fry until transparent.
- Add vegetables, green chillies and if you want you can sprinkle ¼ teaspoon sugar to maintain its colour and fry in medium flame for 2 minutes.
- Sprinkle a little salt just for the vegetables if you want.
- Add the oats, salt and mix well for a minute. Add ¼ cup water and mix well and cook covered for 2 minutes.
- Later again sprinkle the remaining water and mix well and cook covered for another 2 minutes.
- This way the oats doesn't get mushy or sticky and stays fluffy.
Notes
- Add your own choice of vegetables, just make sure you chop finely to make sure it gets cooked.
- You can add finely chopped ginger along with onion to make it flavourful and easy to digest.
- Add turmeric if you want to make it look yellow add some more goodness to the recipe.
shriannalakshmi says
looks inviting...mmmmmmmm
prathibha Garre says
Nice and healthy upma with oats
Sowmya Madhavan says
Nice one..
Nivedhanams Sowmya says
looks delicious and very inviting!!!
Priya R says
Perfectly made upma Raks 🙂 love your version... good luck to a slimmer you
AparnaRajeshkumar says
being a blogger , managing weight is toughest thing in the world ! i am no where considering my weight ! My only concern is flexibility, active work outs . Since my gene is putting weight ! not much worried ! And i love to be bubbly !
Amutha Kannanask says
healthy oats
upma
Yes Cook says
Wow. Really healthy and nice upma.
Thanks for sharing.
BAGIRATHI DEVI says
Color full upma it's tempting
Mugdha Mohanty says
Looks very delicious and yummy
ShravsCookBookBlog says
Oats Upma is very healthy and tempting....do check out my new post veg dum biryani hope u'll like it 🙂
Veena Theagarajan says
healthy start for the day. love the shots
Priya Suresh says
Nutritious and fibre rich upma, can have it happily anytime.
Shama Nagarajan says
drooling !!!
nandoos Kitchen says
Very healthy and delicious upma.
Unknown says
Very yummy and healthy.. Tried it today and came out well. I've started following your blog recently and thanks for all the wonderful recipes with clear step-by-step instructions and for the perfect pictures. You rock 🙂
Raks anand says
Thanks so much for the immediate feedback 🙂
SHARMILEE J says
Looks very colorful, my fav upma!
Dipthi says
I was waiting for this flaky version since a while. Wud try soon 🙂
Dipthi says
I was waiting for this flaky version since a while. Wud try soon 🙂
Madhavi K says
One of my fav upma's Rak's. I make it atleast twice a week. Yours look absolutely beautiful! Agree with you regarding the cooking especially when you have festivals back to back and we are blogging about it!
vinod says
Oats क्या होता है
Madhan Kumar says
Thank you very much for this wonderful recipe...
SUSHMASATEESH BASWA says
looks yummy! would try this soon
Ramya says
Nice recipe! looks very delicious and healthy.. one question, you have mentioned that you used instant oats, I usually buy normal (non instant version) oats from Quaker. In that case will the same amount of water be enough? and are there any other changes that I need to make to the above recipe? Please clarify. Thanks
Raks anand says
My be a little more water, otherwise same.
Abi says
Hi Raks, I am serious follower of your blog... today made this receipe .... the thing is oats became very sticky and not cooked properly...
I followed the same measurement and timing.. Can you please let me know, where I had went wrong ??
Thanks
Abi
Bindumadhuri Ganta says
its very yummyyyyy
Bindumadhuri Ganta says
its very yummy to eat and healthy
vin rocks says
Tried, came out fantastic...
sanu says
thank you for share with us......
Renuka Ambbarees says
Have to roast the oats before preparing upma?
Raks anand says
Not necessary
Renuka Ambbarees says
Thanks yaar. ....:)
Malavika Vishwakarma says
Amazingly delicious recipe .... it turned out to be a treat for my tastebuds.... 🙂
Aiysh says
Hye! 🙂
Love your recipes! 🙂
Is it possible that you could also add in the number of calories?
Thanks a tonne
Swathi.Radhika.Rajgopal says
Oats boletho "jaei" (जौ)
Preethi Jagadish says
Tried it and tasted yummy ! 🙂