Oats pongal recipe, a delicious & healthy take of south Indian breakfast pongal with fiber rich oats. Here's how to make oats pongal with step by step pictures.
Perfect for breakfast or dinner if you are looking for a healthy option instead of rice.
Check out my oats kozhukattai recipe and oats upma recipe in this website.
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Why this works?
Pongal and oats makes a good combo as both are meant to be mushy. Once when I was talking to my brother, he was making fun of how to kill a recipe with oats. Make deep fried snack with it, make pongal, loading it with oodles of ghee and such funny combos.
But I won't say making oats pongal with ghee is a bad idea. As long as the ghee amount is with in the serving size, I would say we are saving some bloating that happens after having pongal made with rice. This gives you more nutrition comparatively to white rice as well. Not to mention especially about the fiber.
Inspiration
One day saw a famous Indian oats brand advertisement in the magazine about this and got tempted. Made instantly and had for lunch. You can make this as Oats khichdi too if you add onion, tomato and masala powders to this.
💭 Top tip
- Please not you need cooked moong dal for this recipe ready.
- Always have it hot.
- Add an extra teaspoon of melted ghee over the hot oats pongal just while serving for best flavor.
📖 Variations
The consistency can be varied as per self preference. Also adding some vegetables will make it more nutritious.
Soak the moong dal and pressure cook everything together directly for easier version.
🥘Serving suggestions
I make this for lunch and have it with lunch sambar for a filling meal… If you have chutney also for side dish, then you will never complain anything, just make it, eat hot, it's really good!
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Oats pongal recipe
Ingredients
- ½ cup Oats I used Quaker quick cook
- ¼ cup Moong dal/ pasi paruppu
- ⅛ teaspoon Turmeric
- Salt
- 1 cup Water
To Temper
- 1 teaspoon Ghee/ oil
- 1 teaspoon Black Pepper
- 1 & ½ teaspoon Cumin seeds
- ¼ teaspoon Asafoetida
- 1 teaspoon Ginger Chopped
- 2 Green Chilli
- 1 Curry leaves sprig
Instructions
- Pressure cook moong dal until mushy with ¾ cup water for 3 whistles in medium flame.
- Crush pepper and cumin seeds coarsely , slit the green chilli.
- Heat a pan with ghee/oil and temper with the items given in order under medium flame.
- Add water,turmeric and salt and bring to boil.
- Add the cooked dal and oats and mix well.
- Cook until you get a porridge consistency.
- Cook covered in low flame for 2-3 minutes or until you get your desired consistency.
Notes
- The consistency can be varied according to your wish just adjust the water ratio.
- You can also cook everything in pressure cooker together. But sometimes dal is not getting cooked properly.
- Always eat the pongal hot.
📸 Oats pongal Method:
- Pressure cook moong dal until mushy with ¾ cup water for 3 whistles in medium flame.
- Meanwhile, crush pepper and cumin seeds coarsely, slit the green chilli and keep it ready.
- Then, heat a pan with ghee/oil and temper with the items given in order under medium flame.
- After that, add water, turmeric and salt and bring to boil.
- Then add the cooked dal and oats and mix well.
- Cook until you get a porridge consistency.
- Cook covered in low flame for 2-3 minutes.
- Once you get your desired consistency,switch off the stove.
Serve hot with sambar or chutney.
kaveri
That's one healthy pongal....very nicely presented with beautiful pics...
Premalatha Aravindhan
Very interesting Raji,Pongal Luks delicious...Very neat presentation as always:)
sanjeeta kk
Oh..this is so innovative and scrumptious treat, Raks!
Kalpana Sareesh
This is healthy pongal..nice presentation..
Prathibha
I make this one...I love those ikea bowls..very pretty na..:)
Sudha Sabarish
Dfntly it will be a tasty pongal.Healthy too.
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Rekha shoban
healthy pongal!!nice click!
sowmya's creative saga
nice,,will make this sometime..easy and healthy also..can cook especially when you are alone..
Divya Kudua
This is something new.Healthy and traditional at one go.Bookmarked to try!
Sharmilee! :)
Wow this sounds interesting, with sambar and chutney a filling breakfast I should say....Healthy n tasty breakfast
Hari Chandana
Very healthy and delicious recipe.. Looks super perfect !!
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Santosh Bangar
ITERESTING AND DIFFERENT IDEA OF MAKING PONGAL
HEALTHY,SUPER!!!!
Suma Rajesh
superlike recipe...
Priya
Can have this pongal anytime,simply hearty and healthy..
Prathima Rao
Such a healthy, delicious pongal!!!! Makes a quick & yummy breakfast, lunch or dinner or for evenings too 🙂
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Ramya
Thatz one healthy n fulfilling meal:-)
sangee vijay
Wat a healthy n filling breakfast...good one !!!
Nitha
Thats a healthy version of pongal.. looks great.
aipi
This dish is so healthy & looks so comforting & inviting!
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DD
today i'm going to try this out!!!!this looks so tempting!!!! i'll let you know after i try!!!!
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jeyashrisuresh
very healthy way to start the day with such a delicious oats pongal.whenever i make pongal for my family, i think next time i should make with oats. Nice clicks and i loved the sambar bowl
Cilantro
Looks delicious!
I have made upma which my daughter loved because it was soft and mushy.I then made pongal and she liked it but my husband did not.
Suja
Healthy and delicious pongal,looks so delicious and tempting.
Hamaree Rasoi
Very delicious and lovely looking pongal dear. Looks wonderful.One of my favourite breakfast dishes.
Deepa
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An Open Book
that looks like an amazing meal..that dal caught my eye 🙂
Angie's Recipes
This looks so interesting and tasty! Great clicks!
Vimitha Anand
Easy and healthy pongal...
Kairali sisters
Not a big fan of oats, but this one sure is innovative raks, great clicks..
Madhavi
Yummyyy and healthy pongal...
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Anonymous
This is a different & healthy version of the pongal. I'll try this & let you know.
DEESHA
I make oats pongal often .. its yummy isn't it
Priya (Yallapantula) Mitharwal
wow, that sounds lovely and so very healthy 🙂
Reshmi Mahesh
Delicious and healthy recipe...nice clicks..
Nisha
Loved this healthy version
savitha ramesh
A healthy pack of meal,suits everyone.
Ramya Bala
I am trying this sooooon!!!.looks super yummy and making me super hungry 🙂
Priti
I make cracked wheat pongal n thinking of doing the same too..ur pics are tempting to try it ..looks yum
Sarah
how interesting!!!! lovely combination of oats in a pongal! I love pongal, btw... i should try this !
Aruna Manikandan
looks healthy and delicious dear 🙂
nice clicks....
Aarthi
This is a healthy dish
jayasree
The variations in pongal in my kitchen is rava and poha. Now I have another one. It looks very delicious.
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Shobha Kamath
Looks good and healthy too ! Worth a try. Thanks for sharing.
Umm Mymoonah
Healthy version of pongal, looks very yummy.
Sushma Mallya
very tasty Pongal Raji and very healthy and yummy breakfast:)
Anonymous
That is one awesome recipe.. I have oats at home and ws wondering what to do as neither of us are eating it.. 😀 Woww.let me try.. tHANK YOU
kothiyavunu.com
Awesome..love idea making pongal with oats..sounds yum!
Plateful
This looks divine - would love to kick-start the day with this delicious and nutritious dish!
Ruchikacooks
Very nice version of pongal raji. I have tried your oats rava idli too, it came out very soft. Will try this too..
divya
Slurppp..Looks tempting & mouth watering.
Annapoorani
Neva tried any oats recipe but I will give this a try 🙂
gayathri
I prepared this today. My 2 yrs boy liked this. thank you gayathri
RAKS KITCHEN
Thank you Gayathri for the feedback 🙂
Lalitha Brahma
Thanks a lot Raji. First I tried your Jangiri and it came out so well. Then today I tried Oats pongal. It was awesome. One change... I cooked Oats, moongdal, (a portion of jeera, ginger and pepper) in the Pressure cooker. The aroma from all the spices percolated into the pongal and it was really good. I used the remaining portion of the spices for tempering. I also added very little cashew.
Nandini
Thank you for this recipe..., tried it out today and it was so good! Never used oats for anything other than porridge before! Going to try all your oats recipes..Thank you for all your hard work to post step by step pics..you are awesome!
Lohi
I tried it today,it is yummy...Thank you
mymoon
How can I make this in pressure cooker and for how many whistles?
Do I need to seasoning after cooking or can include in pressure cooker?
waiting for ur reply...
thanks
Raks Anand
Sorry I have not tried it in cooker as oats might get too mushy.
Raks anand
Havenot tried in pressure cooker before. Do you mean all together - oats, dal ? Together may not be a good idea. First season and cook the moong dal, open the cooker and add oats and cook again. That could help.
Unknown
Very yummy and healthy.. Tried it today and came out very well. I started following your blog recently and you are doing a wonderful job of posting nice recipes with step by step perfect pictures. Great going 🙂
Vidya Ganapathy
tried it and came out very well... no one believed that its made of oats.. its an instant dish u can make and surprise the guests.. keep posting such dishes.. u rock!!!
Vidya Ganapathy
came out very well.. it tasted the same like authentic pongal.. no one believed that its made of oats.. thanks a lot.. n keep posting such yummy and healthy dishes..!!!