Oats Appe

A recipe that’s perfect for breakfast, as a snack, also for the lunchbox and is also well balanced with lots of protein, some healthy complex carbs and fibre and all the goodness of fresh Spinach leaves! How does that sound?

This is not a regular appe recipe, I used my left-over dosa batter for making these appe, and they turned out really well so hence sharing my little cooking experience.

Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup Steel cut oats (not rolled or instant)
• 1/4 cup moong dal
• 1/4 cup urad dal
• 1/4 cup masoor dal
• 1 tsp fenugreek seeds
• 1/4 cup rice flour
• 1/4 cup Rava (optional)
• 1 cup spinach leaves
• water to taste
• Salt to taste
• 1 tsp baking soda / Eno
• For Tadka – oil, mustard seeds, cumin seeds, urad dal, hing and curry leaves

Method:

1. In a medium pot, mix steel cut oats, moong dal, urad dal, masoor dal, and fenugreek seeds. Rinse these with cold water 2-3 times and then soak these in water overnight.
2. On next morning, drain the water from the dal mixture. Transfer these to a blender and first add rice flour. Mix everything together. Then add spinach leaves and some water to blend everything together.
3. Blend this mixture to make a smooth batter. For making appe, the batter needs to be thicker than dosa batter.
4. Transfer this batter to a bowl. If you need, you can add Rava to make it thicker. Add salt as per your taste and mix well.
5. Prepare tadka in a small frying pan and add this to the batter.
6. Now just before making appe, add 1 tsp of Eno fruit salt or baking soda with 1 spoon of water and mix everything.
7. Prepare appe using the special appe pan. For video, check out my highlights on my Instagram page @myhomemantra
8. Serve these hot with coconut chutney.