Oats Upma/ Oats with Vegetables

Ingredients
1. Oats
2. White Oil
3. Cardamom
4. Bay Leaf
5. Salt to taste
6. Sugar
7. Cashew nuts
8. Raisins
9. Finely cut Onions
10. Slivered Ginger
11. Mixed vegetables like carrot, bean, peas, cauliflower, capsicum peeled/scraped and cut into small pieces
12. Ground black pepper green chillies cut into small pieces.


Process

1. Heat oil in a kadai/pan.
2. When heated, add the bay leaves and crushed cardamoms.
3. When a nice aroma of the cardamoms come out, add the onion and ginger and fry well.
   
4. Add the cashew nuts and raisins and fry for a while.
5. Add the cut vegetables and stir-fry well. If required, add a little water at this stage and cover the pan so that the vegetables get cooked well. Take care that they remain a bit crunchy while being cooked.
   
6. Add salt to taste.
7. Add a little sugar as well.
8. Add the oats and mix well with the vegetables. Add some water and stir continuously till the oats get tender. The oats will get soft very soon, so be careful they do not get to much mushy.
9. Sprinkle some fresh ground pepper and green chillies and serve hot.

Note: Oats tend to get a bit lumpy. So the dish should be served and eaten hot. It won't seem as good if eaten cold. But this is a very easy and fast dish, if you have the vegetables cut and stored in your refrigerator :) Even if you don't have the vegetables, you can just use some nuts, frozen peas and a handful of sweet corns