
- Serves
- 4
- Portion
- 1 bowl (≈220 g)
- Time
- Soak overnight · Cook 25 min
- Texture
- Soft porridge
- Season
- WinterDecember
- Dosha
- Vata
- Pitta
- Kapha
Vata-pacifying
Ingredients
What you need
| Done | Ingredient | Household measure | Quantity (4 servings) | Café batch ×5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oats, rolled / steel-cut | ¾ cup steel-cut (or 1⅓ cups rolled) | 120 g | 600 g | |
| Water | 1⅔ cups | 400 ml | 2000 ml | |
| Cow's milk, whole | 1⅔ cups (or almond milk) | 400 ml | 2000 ml | |
| Dates, seedless | 5 seedless, chopped | 40 g | 200 g | |
| Green cardamom | ⅛ tsp | 0.5 g | 2.5 g | |
| Cinnamon | ¼ tsp powder | 0.5 g | 2.5 g | |
| Rock salt (sendha namak) | pinch | 0.5 g | 2.5 g | |
| Ghee (cow) | 1 tsp per bowl (≈4 tsp) | 15 g | 75 g | |
| Walnuts | 5 halves, chopped | 20 g | 100 g |
Method
How to cook it
Step 1: Soak steel-cut oats overnight; drain.
Step 2: Simmer in water 15 minutes.
Step 3: Add milk; simmer 10 minutes, stirring, until creamy.
Step 4: Add dates, cardamom, cinnamon and a pinch of salt.
Step 5: Serve with 1 tsp ghee per bowl and chopped walnuts.
Nutrition
Per serving, estimated
274kcal
Energy
8.1g
Protein
12.8g
Fat
32.9g
Carbohydrate
4.1g
Fibre
0.1g
Salt
Where the energy comes from
Protein and carbohydrate × 4 kcal/g, fat × 9 kcal/g
Estimated from IFCT 2017 / USDA composition tables; not for clinical use.
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