Steel cut oats with spicy butter milk

My recent discovery is about steel cut oats, yes a very good friend mentioned about this to me, she has been sourcing from abroad but now since everything is very much available in India, I could procure it easily with no difficulties.

Personally speaking I dont prefer the bland nature of oats and hence I resort making dosas/pancakes/crepes with it with different combinations otherwise a porridge using milk and sugar. Once can always substitute sugar with natural sweeteners like fresh fruits or dry fruits but when I planned on using this oats I had loads of buttermilk in my kitchen, hence tried this way. Recipe follows

Ingredients

Steel cut oats - 1/2 cup

Water- 1 1/2 cup

Buttermilk - 2 cups

Cucumber - 2 

Carrots - 2 

Bird eye chillies - 3- 5 

Basil leaves

Salt and pepper

Method

Place the water in a sauce pan and let it boil and add the oats into the boiling water. Keep stirring and cook the oats for around 5-7 minutes and remove from fire. Pour in the buttermilk , chop in the carrots and cucumber and slightly mashed or well mashed chillies and also tear in the basil leaves into it . Add salt and pepper to your taste. If you wish you may avoid pepper and its done!

And I vouch its tasty for your tongue and easy on your tummy 

Enjoy!

Fresh fig cookies

As I mentioned in some other posts, living n Bangalore we get exposed to many varieties of  fruits and vegetables and I always get tempted to pick it up , taste, explore and one such baby is this fresh fig cookies and the result was not bad either ..Following is the recipe

Ingredients
Fresh figs puree- 1/2 cup ( remove the skin and blend)
Whole wheat flour - 1 and half cup
Butter - 1/3 cup
Sugar - 3 tbspns
Baking powder - 1/3 tspn
while chocolate chips ( optional)

Method
Preheat oven to 150 degrees
Mix the flour, butter, fig puree, sugar, baking powder  into a soft dough. Sprinkle the while chocolate chips if you have ( this is just for the extra USP with kids ) and then is is easy . Make small balls and place it in the greased tray and press slightly with a fork and bake in the top rack of the oven for 8-10 minutes or until you feel the bottom is browned and them change the mode of the oven to grill mode and grill for another few minutes till the top turns brown. Remove the tray from the oven and remove the cookies from the tray and let it to cool in the tray. The cookies should become hard and crisp when cooled. Enjoy!