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35 min — 10 min prep, 25 min cooking.

Oats And Spinach Pongal

Name: Oats And Spinach Pongal
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 5 servings
Cuisine: Tamil Nadu Indian
Ingredients: 1cup Water; 15piece Black Peppercorns (Tellicherry Bold Grade); 0.75cup instant oats; 15piece Cashew Nuts; salt; 1piece green chillies; 1cup Spinach (Palak); 0.5cup yellow moong dal; 2tbsp Ghee; 2tsp Cumin Seeds; 1tsp Asafoetida; 1piece Curry Leaves

Vegetarian semi-dry dish from Tamil Nadu. Made with cashew nuts, instant oats, yellow moong dal. About 250 calories per serving.

Time 35 min · Serves 5 · 214 kcal · Tamil Nadu

Ingredients

Main

Water — 1 cup (whole)
Black Peppercorns (Tellicherry Bold Grade) — 15 piece (whole)
instant oats — 0.75 cup (ground)
Cashew Nuts — 15 piece (whole)
salt (optional) (whole)
green chillies — 1 piece (chopped)
Spinach (Palak) — 1 cup (chopped)
yellow moong dal — 0.5 cup (whole)
Ghee — 2 tbsp (whole)

Tempering

Cumin Seeds — 2 tsp (whole)
Asafoetida — 1 tsp (ground)
Curry Leaves — 1 piece (ground)

Method

To begin making the Oats And Spinach Pongal recipe, dry roast the oats for 5 minutes and keep it aside.Pressure cook the moong dal along with chopped spinach for 2 whistles.Heat a heavy bottomed pan, add ghee.
When ghee heats, add cashewnuts and fry till they turn brownish.
Remove and keep aside.In the same kadai/wok, add more ghee if needed.
Add cumin seeds and after the cumin seeds crackle add black peppercorns, curry leaves, slit green chilli and asafoetida.Add the roasted oats and mix well.
Add water, 1/4 cup at a time, mix and cook till oats get cooked.Add the pressure cooked spinach and moong dal to the kadai with oats.
Mix everything well.Add salt to taste and garnish with roasted cashewnuts.Serve hot Oats And Spinach Pongal with ghee and Lauki raita or any other raita of your choice.
You can even have this for lunch/dinner, when you want to eat something light like along with a cup of Masala Chai Recipe - Indian Spiced Tea.

Common questions

How many calories in one plate of Oats And Spinach Pongal?: 214 kcal per plate.
How much cooking time?: 35 min — 10 min prep, 25 min cooking.

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