Oats dosa..A perfect way to start your day!

Dietary fiber benefits health in many ways including reducing risk of cardiovascular diseases and facilitating a good digestive system.
Oats contain more soluble fibre than any other grain, resulting in slower digestion and thus we will get a feeling of fullness. Oats is believed to reduce LDL, the bad cholesterol and increase the level of HDL, the good cholesterol thus helping to maintain a healthy heart. People have become more health concious and yes, starting your day with a bowl of hot steaming oat meal  is an apt way to take the first step to protect your heart. But I somehow dont like oats in that way. This roots back to my childhood, when I could not come to like the taste of porridge (kurukku). These days, I try to gulp a half cup of cooked oats (without salt/sugar) just because of it's health benefits. For this reason I am always in a lookout for new and different recipes which uses oats, so that I can easily consume it without having to force it down my throat. I've tried oats vada, oats puttu and oats idly (will be posting the recipes soon). My friend Divya introduced the recipe of oats dosa to me. It's a tasty dosa that tastes even better with cilantro-coconut chutney. I have made slight modification to the original recipe.
Do try it out!

Ingredients:

• Oats................1 cup(I used Quaker quick oats)
• Rice powder....2 tbsp
• Onion...............a small one(1/2 of  the ones we get here),chopped
• Ginger.............. a small piece( 1 inch)
• Green chilly..... 1
• Cilantro............ a small bunch
• Salt....................1 tsp( as required)
• Water.................to soak the oats

Method:

• Soak oats in water for one hour(for Quaker quick oats soaking time can be reduced to 15mins)
• Grind together onion , ginger, chilly and cilantro together. Set aside
• Now grind the soaked oats into a smooth paste.
• Mix the onion-ginger paste to it along with the rice powder.
• Add salt to it.
• The consistancy should be of that of a dosa batter.
• Let it sit for sometime, say 15 mins.
• Heat a dosa pan/ griddle and pour a ladle of batter to it. Flip it when one side is done and when properly done remove it from the griddle.
• Repeat it for more.

Notes:

• Instead of soaking oats, you can use powdered oats (It is made as follows: roast oats for 5 mins and when cooled grind it into powder. Store it in an air tight container.)
• You can also try variations of this dosa - by adding spinach or methi leaves.