Oats chilla recipe | Healthy No Rice Breakfast and Dinner
Oats chilla or oats cheela is an Indian breakfast recipe you can make instantly with easily available ingredients at home. Perfect for dinner too for weight loss.
Servings: 10 chilla
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 cup Oats I used rolled oats, any type will work.
- ¼ cup Gram flour Besan, Split chickpea flour
- 1 Onion Finely chopped
- ½ cup Cabbage Finely chopped
- 2 tablespoon Capsicum Finely chopped
- 2 tablespoon Carrot Finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon Ginger Finely chopped
- 1 Green chilli Finely chopped
- 2 tablespoon Coriander leaves Finely chopped
- ¼ teaspoon Red chilli powder
- ¼ teaspoon Roasted cumin seeds powder
- ⅛ teaspoon Turmeric
- ⅛ teaspoon Black pepper powder
- ⅛ teaspoon Asafoetida
- 2 pinches Cooking soda Optional
- Salt as needed
- Oil as needed
Instructions
Powder oats
- Firstly, take oats in a mixie/ blender and powder coarsely.
- Let it be not fine flour as the texture may go too soft if you do so.
Chilla batter
- Take powdered oats, besan, spices, vegetables, salt, cooking soda and other ingredients in a mixing bowl.¼ tsp Red chilli powder, ¼ tsp Roasted cumin seeds powder, ⅛ tsp Turmeric, ⅛ tsp Black pepper powder, ⅛ tsp Asafoetida
- Then, mix roughly before adding water.
- After that, add 1 cup water and mix to make thick batter.
- Once you mix well without lumps, add ½ cup water little by little to make batter.
- Now, set this aside for 10 minutes for resting.
- After that, add more water, ¼ cup approx to loosen the batter. Consistency like idli dosa batter.
Make oats chilla:
- Heat a tawa and smear with little oil firstly. Do not overheat. Put the flame to low and pour a ladle full of oats chilla batter. Spread slightly.
- Cook covered if desired. It takes about a minute.
- Drizzle oil over if needed before flipping.
- Cook for another minute in low or medium flame. Press gently for even cooking.
- Oats chilla is ready. Repeat to finish all.
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Notes
- You can make the batter watery and make it like I have did in my paneer besan chilla. Or infact, you can make it in appe pan like paniyaram. You can add ¼ teaspoon eno for more fluffier results.