Buttermilk Oats

Ingredients:

Quick Cooking Oats : 1 cup
Milk : 3 cups (optional - can be replaced by water)
Buttermilk : 1 cup
Fresh ginger : 1 " piece
Green Chillies : 2
Mustard  seeds : 1/4 tsp
urad dal : 1/4 tsp
Asafotida Powder : a pinch
Oil
Salt

Method:

Mix milk/water with oats and cook for 3 to 4 minutes stirring now and then.
Alternatively, you can also cook oats in microwave oven.
Remove from stove and keep it aside.Allow it to cool down.
When it is cooled down,  add buttermilk into the oats along with salt. Mix well.
Heat oil in a kadai, then add mustard seeds and urad dal.
Once the mustard seeds starts spluttering, then add ginger and green chillies and saute for a min.
Add this seasoning to the Oats buttermilk mixture.
Garnish with grated carrot, coriander leaves and grapes or pomegranate pearls.

PS:

I normally use low fat buttermilk to prepare this.. u can even replace it with curd as well.
This is very gud breakfast for the weight watchers..