Healthy weight loss recipe: Oats dumplings

Are you on a weight loss plan? Now prepare dumplings with rolled oats and enjoy your favourite dish guilt-free. Oats is loaded with fibre and aids weight loss and helps lower cholesterol.  It also has mild anti-depressant and mood-elevating properties.

Ingredients

• Oats – 1 cup
• Water – ¾ cup
• Salt – to taste

For tempering

• Mustard seeds – 1 tsp
• Urad Dal – ½ tsp
• Curry leaves (few) – pieces

Method

• Dry roast oats to get a nice aroma and keep aside.
• Heat 1 tsp oil in a pan.
• Add mustard seeds. When it splutters, add urad dal and curry leaves.
• Add salt and water.
• To the boiling water, add roasted oats.
• Stir till the oats cook and become sticky.
• Let it cool slightly.
• Grease your palm with little oil and make balls out of the oats mixture.
• If the mixture gets dry, sprinkle little water on it
• Steam the oat balls for 5 to 7 minutes.

If you are on a weight loss plan, you may also like to try:

• Dalia salad
• Nachni dhokla

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