Oats Porridge

hi hubbers,
just now the ramadan month was over. My friend she makes a porridge, when she breaks the fast. I changed her receipe in a healthy way. But the taste is same.

Oats Porridge:
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Cooking oats - 1 cup
Channa dhal(bengal gram) - 1 1/2 tblsp
Methi seeds - 1/4 tsp
Bengal gram and methi seeds should be soaked in enough water for 1 hour.
salt - reqd
coconut milk powder - 1 tsp diluted in water

Seasoning :
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Cooking oil - 1 tsp
cloves - 2
cinnamon - 1" pieces (2)
Jeera - 1/2 tsp
Green chilly - 1 slit
Onion - 1 small (chopped)
Curry leaves, pudhina, coriander leaves - 1 tsp each
ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp
carrot - 2 tblsp chopped
green peas - 1 tsp
Tomato - 1 small (chopped)-optional

In a pan, add oil, cinnamon, cloves, jeera once it pops then add onion, green chilly saute for 2 minutes, then add the leaves. then add ginger garlic paste, fry for 2 minutes. Then add carrot, green peas mix it nicely. If we want to add tomato, here we have add tomato and fry nicely.

Then add channa dhal, methi seeds and add 1 cup of water, cover and cook till channa dhal is 3/4th done. then add oats and add another 2 cups of water, salt and cook till the oats is nicely cooked like a porridge. lastly add the coconut milk when it starts to boil switch off the gas.

We can dilute the porridge according to our consistency.

Variations:
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1.Same like above we can make with wheat rawa, this can be used after frying it (same like uppma). This has be pressure cook with all the ingredients.

2. Also we can make with brown rice.

3. Also we can make with raw rice.

Weight watchers can have this porridge either as a afternoon meal , with that some salads and vegetables.

In the night only this porridge is enough for the dinner.

Mainly oats is good for weightwatches, next comes the brown rice and next comes the wheat rawa.

Please try it and let me know the feed back