Oats Dosa with Green Peas

Replacing rice with oats makes your dosa very healthy. Oats is very low in glycemic index and keeps you fuller for a longer time. Have this with chutney.



Makes 5 dosas.

1 cup oats,
¼ cup black gram (urad dal) powder
½ tsp salt
1 ½ cups water (approx.)
oil for shallow frying

For the Filling

1 tbsp oil
½ tsp brown mustard seeds (rai)
½ tsp salt
red chilli powder
2 cups boiled green peas





For the filling
1. Heat oil in a pan. Put rai and when it crackles, add salt red chilli powder and peas.
2. Stir fry for 2-3 minutes. Keep the filling aside.

Method
1. Grind oats and urad dal separately in a mixer to a powder.
You can use ready-made urad dal powder too.
2. Combine oats powder, dal powder & salt.
3. Put enough water to make a batter of thim pouring consistency.
4. Heat a pan. Put oil and wipe it off. Remove from fire. Take a ladle full of batter and spread from inside to outside.
Return to fire. When the edges turn brown, put a few drops of oil on the sides and on the dosa. Put some filling. Fold over.

Serve with chutney.

Note: Don’t keep the batter for too long as it becomes more and more thick. You can use different vegetables in the filling. Also try paneer if you wish.