Raksha Bandhan 2020: Celebrate The Festival Of Bond With These Scrumptious Oats Recipes

Easy to digest and loaded with amazing health benefits, oats, and oat dishes are great for one and all. This particular ingredient is gluten-free whole grain and a great source of important vitamins, minerals, fiber and antioxidants. Oats and oatmeal have many wholesome benefits including weight loss, lower blood sugar levels, and a reduced risk of heart disease. Here are a few recipes from the house of Quaker Oats that you could try for a healthy Raksha Bandhan:

Oats and Dates Pie

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Ingredients:

• 20g roasted and powdered oats
• 20g semolina (Suji)
• Sugar to taste
• 2.5ml oil
• 5g chopped dates
• 1 tsp lemon juice
• 50g peeled and grated apple
• 15g chopped walnuts
• 2 tsp boiling water

Preparation:

• Mix oats and semolina with sugar and oil
• Mix apples, dates and walnuts. Add boiling water and lemon juice and stir till smooth
• Pre-heat oven (375°F). Grease a baking dish
• Spread half of the oats and semolina mixture in the dish
• Top it with a layer of date mixture and cover with rest of oats mixture
• Bake for 35-40 mins. (Reduce heat after 20 mins if topping is becoming brown)

Chocolate Baked Oats with Chocolate Chips

Ingredients:

• 1½ cups oats
• ⅓cup sugar
• ¼ cup melted butter/oil
• Egg white from 2 eggs
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ¾ cup skimmed milk
• 1 tsp vanilla flavour
• 2 tbsp cocoa
• ⅓ cup chocolate chips

Method:

• Pre-heat the oven to 180°C
• Grease an 8” pan or line a cupcake tray with cupcake liners
• Mix all ingredients together.
• Bake for 20-25 min or until the edges are golden brown.

Oats and Carrot Kheer

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Ingredients:

• 15g roasted oats
• 300ml skimmed milk
• 50g grated carrots
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1 green cardamom

Preparation:

• Boil milk, add carrots and simmer for 10 mins.
• Add oats and cook on slow fire stirring continuously.
• When kheer thickens to an even consistency, add sugar and green cardamom powder.
• Cook for a few more mins, stirring constantly.
• Remove from fire and serve hot.

Oats Burfi

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Ingredients:

• Oats (roasted and powdered) 50g
• Sugar 35g
• Khoa (grated and mashed) 15g
• Ghee 5g
• Almonds (powdered) 15g
• Cardamom (powdered) 1

Method:

• Boil sugar and water to make syrup.
• Heat ghee in a pan and roast the oats powder (For powdered oats, roast them 2-3 mins. Cool and grind in a mixer) till it gives aroma.
• Add khoa in the pan and cook for few minutes on slow fire with continuous stirring.
• Add sugar syrup. Cook it again with continuous stirring on slow fire till the mixture leaves the side of the pan.
• Remove from there and add almond powder and cardamom powder.
• Spread on a greased thali and allow it to cool.
• Cut and serve..