Oats Besan Chilla Recipe | How to make Oats Besan Cheela

Chilla / Cheela is an Indian Savory Pancake made with Gram Flour. Chilla is a quick and easy to make Vegetarian dish within 30 mins. Cheela is usually served for breakfast or we can serve for brunch too. We can call this as a vegetarian alternate for Omelette. Instead of using only besan to make chilla, we can use other moong dal, sooji, paneer, green peas, oats etc and make this chilla even more yummy and healthy.

In this recipe, we are going to use oats along with besan. Also we are going to spice the batter mildly

Tips for getting perfect Oats Besan chilla:

1. Use Quick oats or oatmeal and grind it to a smooth powder
2. Adding vegetables increase the flavor but its optional. We can just add onion and coriander leaves
3. Make pouring consistency batter out of the oats, besan and spices. Besan and oats flour tend to absorb water so adjust the quantity of water
4. Cook Chilla in medium flame to make sure the besan and oats are getting cooked properly.

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Oats Besan Chilla | How to make Oats Cheela

Chilla/Cheela is an Indian Savory Cake made with Besan and mild spices like ajwain, chilies and spice powders. Oats Besan Cheela, an instant healthy and tasty Indian breakfast recipe with the fiber rich oats, besan and spices. Serve with Tomato Chutney or any coriander chutney.

Course Breakfast, Healthy Recipes

Cuisine Indian, North Indian

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes

Total Time 45 minutes

Servings 8 Cheela

Calories 160kcal

Author Sowmya Venkatachalam

Equipment

• Mixer Grinder
• Mixing Bowl
• Heavy Bottomed Pan

Ingredients

• 1 Cup Oats I used quick Quaker oats. 1 Cup - 250ml
• ½ Cup Gram Flour (Besan / Chickpea Flour)
• ½ tsp Ajwain / Carom Seeds / Omam
• ¾ tsp Salt Adjust As Needed
• ½ tsp Red Chili Powder
• ¼ tsp Turmeric Powder
• 2 Green Chili Chopped
• ½ Onion Chopped
• ½ Green Capsicum Chopped
• ½ Carrot Grated
• 1.5 Cups Water Adjust as needed
• 1 tbsp Coriander Leaves
• ¼ Cup Oil For Cooking Cheela

Instructions

Prepare Cheela Batter

• Take oats in a mixer jar and grind it to smooth powder.
• Take the oats powder in a mixing bowl. Add besan, salt, red chili powder, turmeric powder, ajwain, chopped green chili, onion, capsicum and grated carrot. Finally add coriander leaves and give a mix
• Mix everything well. Add water little by little and make a batter like dosa batter.

Making Cheela

• Heat a tawa, When the tawa is hot, pour a ladle of Oats cheela batter and spread it to thin circle with back of the ladle
• Pour of teaspoon of oil around the cheela and cook cheela in medium flame. Then flip and cook on the other side
• Repeat the same for the rest of the Cheela batter.
• Serve the delicious Oats Besan Chilla with Tomato or Coriander Chutney and enjoy this delicious breakfast!

Notes

1. Vegetables are optional we can just add only onions and make Oats Besan Cheela
2. Adjust the spices like green chili, red chili powder according to your needs

Nutrition

Serving: 1cheela | Calories: 160kcal | Carbohydrates: 25g | Protein: 9g | Fat: 3g

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