ALOO STUFFED OATS BOMB

This idea was hovering around for quite sometime and I finally prepared them last Saturday evening. We had our dinner with exactly what you see above in the picture. We had some dal and left over mutton meat from it's leg I cooked earlier last week. In fact, after giving a bite to these potato stuffed baked oats buns, I felt they can be best eaten as a snack with some chutney / achar / sauce. Thats what I did in the next morning, that was yesterday; a Sunday. In this home, the television set is on 24/7 on a weekend, I mean so long the husband is at home, it keeps on going. Even when he sleeps, it has to go on as a back ground music. Yes, some days I have my breakfast way too early and the not so much of a television enthusiast me gets hooked to it when such beauties come up, that is Sao Paolo. I was enjoying the acres of orchards in Brazil too. I do not know the proper timings of such shows, because the television set goes on and on, I get to see things of my interest, even cookery shows.

Besides the vegetarian snacker ALOO STUFFED OATS BOMB, I also had that raisin & cheese bread I get from the local bakery. In some food that he enjoys, our boy eats the raisins present in them too.  The filling I used is just the one I prepare my potato bharta as, you can choose yours. If you choose my way of doing it, you only win. Go less cheesy at times, it helps.

Last week was too much cooking and eating out. On Saturday, I cooked with everything leftover in the freezer and the vegetable box. I have clicked four pieces of this fish and five pieces of that, a little of this veg and of that, will share in public when my mood permits. At this moment, I am very eager to share this more or less healthy creation of mine, a vegetarian snack recipe today with you. There may be a number of similar recipes in the net but be assured, I have not browsed any of them. Else, I do not mind giving due credit to the sources. I could have prepared the vegetarian delight with bread, refined flour, wheat flour, semolina but I wished for a healthier, gluten free dish today for all the X-Mas revellers. I have at least twenty Bengali dishes in line to be shared, I am eager to but I value all my readers and the friends around, so I sincerely hope this healthier, very tasty snack recipe ALOO STUFFED OATS BOMB catches your fancy and you enjoy doing and having them. Because I am very particular about my taste bud and I wished to sit together with my family and enjoy the dinner, I prepared the filling in the lines of aloo choka. I have oven baked the stuffed oats buns to lessen the ordeal of our help, else the manual roasters on a stove top work better giving them a semi charred texture and look. Switching on the bake button, I could sit for half an hour, when the Filipino cleaned the kitchen top for a normal photography session. Let us proceed with the recipe.

INGREDIENTS : [FOR THE FILLING]

BOILED POTATO : TAKE 3 STANDARD SIZED AND BOIL THE WAY YOU WISH
CHOPPED ONION : 1/2SMALL TEACUP [OF ONE STANDARD SIZED]
CHOPPED CORIANDER : 3-4TBSP
CHOPPED GREEN CHILLI : 11/2TBSP
CRUSHED BLACK PEPPER : 1/4TSP
MELTED BUTTER : 3TBSP
LEMON JUICE : 2-3TBSP
SALT : AS REQUIRED

INGREDIENTS : [TO SHAPE THE FINAL THING- A YUMMY SNACK]

THE FILLING
POWDERED OATS / OAT MEAL : 2COFFEE MUG
SALT : AS REQUIRED
BAKING POWDER : 1TSP
BAKING SODA : 2PINCH
PLAIN YOGURT : 3-4TBSP
WATER : AS REQUIRED
OIL : 3TBSP + 3-4TBSP TO BRUSH

PROCEDURE :

For the dough, we have powdered the rolled oats in a blender. We will add the baking powder and the baking soda, salt to the bowl and mix well.

Add the yogurt now rub well for 2 minutes or so.

Add the oil now and rub well for a minute. Add water little by little to form a dough. A dough made with oatmeal will never be smooth, soft and elastic like the one done with refined or wheat flour. Do not worry if it looks tight, messy and you need to add more water. We will manage and win the game.

Cover the dough, wash your hands and mash the boiled potatoes adding salt and melted butter to it.

We had chopped and washed the lemon slices, coriander+onion+green chilli.

We will add them, the lemon juice, crushed black pepper to the potato mash and mix well. Our filling is ready.

Now remove the cover from the oats dough, give a loose knead. Please do not get disheartened if it feels tight and messy. If required, add a little water and knead.

Tear off small portions, make a space and stuff with the potato filling. Cover it with little of oats dough and prepare a smooth bun sized ball.

Grease you palms with oil for smoother balls. I did one, Cristine did the rest.

Grease a bake proof plate and place the stuffed balls. Brush with oil and prick all over them with a fork.

I use a convection mode microwave oven for my bakes. So, I keep the wired low stool inside while preheating. I preheated it at 180*C for 10 minutes.

Then, I baked them for 24-26 minutes at 180*C. In between I took them out to brush with oil.

If you want a browner look and crisper texture, you have to bake for sometime more.

We enjoyed a hearty meal with raita, dal, mutton and POTATO STUFFED OATS BOMB.