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Designer Oatmeal?
Who says you cant dress up an ugly duckling? I was from the school that oat meal was meant for horses and should stay that way, until I decided to use my imagination. I should say the ugly duckling looks pretty. All of you who staunchly believe that you wont ever touch oatmeal, try this option with an open mind and see how you feel.
After having resisted oatmeal for 7 years, this is the first time that I have been regularly having oatmeal for breakfast.
Water – 1 cup
Quaker Oats -1/2 cup
Raisins – 1 tbsp
Milk – 1/3 cup
Brown Sugar – 1 tsp
Saffron – 2 strands
Pistachio – 1 tsp chopped
- Bring water to a boil.
- Add the oats and raisins to boiling water.
- Cook the oats on medium low (takes 3 to 4 minutes)
- Now stir in the milk and brown sugar
- Crush saffron between your fingers and add that to the oatmeal as well.
- Let the saffron infuse into the oatmeal
- Garnish with pistachio and serve.
The other option is to add a dash of cardamom. Try this and I hope we have more oatmeal converts 
This designer Oatmeal goes to Mansi who is hosting WBB, short for Weekend Breakfast Blogging, an event started by Nandita of Saffron Trail. The theme for this edition is Balanced Breakfast.
Wow!
Thks for sharing this healthy quickie!
I dislike oatmeal and try and use it up in other ways. Once oatmeal meets hot milk, it gets so slimy and gooey.
My husband eats it this way though.
even i too dislike oats meal and my mom forces me to eat always…this one sounds great…healthy too
The addition of pista sure makes this dish fancy. Like mine with yogurt and pickles ;
Good idea Shankari, I’m bored of eating plain oats all the time..will give this a try
Bcoz of this post I will try one time.. just one time
nice way to dress up the old fashioned oats..great!
um a healthy payasam
Looks so yummy! You are tempting me to try it for the first time too.
So true about dressing up oatmeal! Adding cardamom is a fantastic idea!
one person’s ugly is another’s beauty (or something to that effect).
With pista and cardamom it is more like a halwa, no?
What ever the name….looks good.
i have oats almost everyday as i am alone during the breakfast and lazy to cook up something for me…this would be welcome change for me…
have you tried dried cranberries? their tart-sweet flavour perks up the oatmeal really well. i find that scottish steel ut oats have more flavour, though they take longer to cook.
these look fab Shankari! pistachios can make anythign taste better:) you could send this in for my WBB-Balanced Breakfasts event girl!
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We have oatmeal for breakfast every weekday so I thought we had tried every kind of fresh and dried fruit combinations. After 9 years, we are moving into savory oatmeals, too. But I never considered using saffron or pistachios — next time I come across some saffron, tho, I’m going to save a few strands for breakfast to try this!