Oats Kanji – Indian style oats porridge (drinkable) for breakfast with garlic, coconut milk and spices. Perfect to suit Indian taste buds.
This is a perfect breakfast to kick start a day, healthy and a spicy, tasty, flavourful one. Not at all bland and boring. As we are used to the flavors and spices in out cooking, being oats too new to our taste buds, no need to have it bland. You can preprare this way and enjoy it in our very own way.
As a kid I have tasted nombu kanji once from our sweet Muslim neighbor friends, when I was in holidays at my Periyappa’s place in near Karaikal. It is a small place near Tarangambadi and have a lot of Muslim people living in the community. They are very friendly and they passed this vegetarian nombu kanji when I was there.
It is very flavorful and healthy one…It’s made of raw rice and moong dal, with lots of garlic, veggies, coconut milk and flavored with fennel and coriander too! They make this Kanji to end their fasting .
We too make a similar version and call it as vendhaya kanji and it’s very healthy, as it contains fenugreek seeds, garlic and coconut milk. It cures stomach/mouth ulcers, we don’t add fennel or any other ingredients in it.
So this oats porridge is fusion of the above two. This recipe is actually inspired by idea of Prathiba’s savory oats porridge, I tried recently her version and liked it so much, so thought I should try as my own version.
This kanji is good for feeding mothers too as it have oats and garlic which helps in increasing the milk supply as well as shedding off those pregnancy weight.
Oats Kanji – Indian style oats porridge
Equipments (Amazon Affiliate links)
- Pressure cooker, 3 Litre
Ingredients
- ½ cup Instant Oats I used Quaker easy cook
- 6 Flakes of Garlic
- 3 tbsp Carrot chopped
- ½ Tomato chopped
- 1 Green chilli Chopped
- ¼ tsp Fennel crush slightly
- 2 tbsp Coriander leaves chopped
- Salt to taste
- ¼ cup grated Coconut Or Low fat Milk – ¼ cup
Instructions
- Pressure cook everything with enough water (just add to cover the oats), except coconut or milk in the above ingredients up to 2 whistles.
- Open the cooker and mash it well with a masher. Make sure you mash the garlic properly so that the flavor blends well.
- Extract milk from the coconut by grinding it with lukewarm water and squeeze out the milk.
- Add the extracted milk or low fat milk to the porridge and mix well and just heat a little.
Notes
- Instead of extracting coconut milk, you can also add it grated as such.
Oats kanji method
- Pressure cook everything with enough water (just add to cover the oats), except coconut or milk in the above ingredients up to 2 whistles.
- Open the cooker and mash it well with a masher. Make sure you mash the garlic properly so that the flavor blends well.
- Extract milk from the coconut by grinding it with lukewarm water and squeeze out the milk. Add the extracted milk or low fat milk to the porridge and mix well and just heat a little.
Smells great with garlic, fennel, coriander and tastes great with coconut milk. Enjoy hot!
My hus luv oats porridge…so thank u so much dear.
OMG look at that pic. s so tempting nice and interesting recipe Will sure give a try.
very tempting pictures Raji..morover a tasty breakfast too..
Healthy breakfast & a lovely click!
This looks really yum Raks..Oats is one staple breakfast here..n I havent ever thought of a savory version..will try it sometime..Thanks..:)
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Quaker Oats Koozh!! 😉
Pramadham!
Love the way you have topped the pachamilagai..
Should be comforting and healthy!..
Nice recipe, Raks!!
i have those same towels 🙂 and is the bowl from ikea? 😀
oh nice and different recipe. perfect click of course. i often take oats kanji for dinner and beakfast. will try out this
healthy recipe dear..nice picture
Thanks for all lovely words!
Nags,
yes of course! Both the bowl and towel from IKEA 🙂
hi, raks, something different from the oats plain porridge, must try it sometime.., a very healthy breakfast, pictures are quite tempting
Very interesting recipe ..looks too good ..Love the pics ..Hey awesome .!Thanks for sharing healthy recipe .
I keep searching for oats recipes. I amde oats upma and it stopped there. I woulds surely make this, but can I substitute coconut milk with anything else?
I think low fat milk/milk u can try and see 🙂
Thats indeed a healthy porridge..Kanji is very common in Kerala but v always make with boiled rice or with special kanji rice..superb clicks
Droolyfying pics and delicious brekfst…..
nice click…..
very nice pic raks…looks healthy with those vegetables….will def try it out
Nice and Very interesting recipe ..Looks too good.. lovely click!
Thats lovely raji..am sure this shoos away the morning blues!
Wat a healthy and delicious porridge, looks simply fantastic yaar!
hey very nice and healthy recipe dear…nice click too
Looks yumm..will try for sen and tell u 🙂 I've posted veg pizza for ur event .Pls check it !!
looks gorgeous and tempting! Nice dish 🙂
very healthy dish Raks. Pictures are as usual great!!
Looks yum and sounds yum too. Awesome clicks.
I love oats porridge, everyday i take it as my breakfast, ur version looks yummy and delicious. Thanks for sharing!
Oats porridge sounds healthy n yummy.
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Cheers,
Viki.
Looks like a great way to start a day! Havent tried the savoury version though!
Looks lovely, i use yogurt and other spices. Coconut milk is real interesting.
Super healthy one..thanks for participating
Healthy and delicious breakfast! nice click!
Looks gud..and nice use of oats..I just throw mine 1kg oats coz it got spoil I never use you see :(…perhaps next time if I buy will make this 🙂
looks very healthy and great..
Such a healthy and a yummy dish!
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First time in your blog… u have a nice blog dear… Oats porridge looks extremely healthy and delicious.
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Very good recipe.
I cook ordinary oats kanji…yes quite boring. Now it is time to change. Thank you for this recipe.
nice pic rajeshwari….though we are not a big fan of oats ur pic make me have it
It is a simple kanji.. awesome click as always
Oh wow…that's a delectable and yum recipe…..Healthy too…love that green chilli floating on porridge…..hmmm having fun with headers i think…this header also looks gr8 dear….
சூப்பர்ப்..சத்தான ஒட்ஸ் கஞ்சி…எனக்கும் மிகவும் பிடித்தது..
hi raks
i tried ur oats porridge.tastes good
but when i added coconut milk it curdled up(ready made coconut milk)
i added coconut milk when it was hot
can u tell me where i went wrong
You can try adding when it becomes warm. But I dint had this problem so far, only if we boil after adding coconut milk, then it curdles.
Hi ,have been following your blog for quite sometime .. very nice recipes… you come to my mind first when i want to search for some recipe … good work ..
i have a doubt in this recipe .. can i avoid adding coconut ? as i am little weight conscious i don't prefer using coconut …
Yes you can avoid coconut and use low fat milk instead…
Hey!! Can i try preparing the entire recipe till pressure cooking and store it in the fridge in the night and take it out in the morning and then add low fat boiled milk just before having breakfast??? Will there be any change in the taste or will it become thick if refrigerated and hence spoil the porridge completely. I'm asking this alternative cz I can save time in the morning. Awaiting ur reply…
Thanks for this recipe.When my daughter suddenly became health conscious she brought home a big pack of oats, after trying it once she didn't like its bland taste.(she likes everything super savoury) I think this porridge will suit her taste.
Hi raks…. yummy oats porridge dear.. though read it sometime back tried it today and tasted excellent..
Thank you for the feedback 🙂
Thank you for this version of oats porridge…tried…tasted so yummy…
Thank you for the feedback 🙂