Pongal Oats with Lentils and Sesame Seeds

This recipe is a of "Oats a la Pongal" from the blog Evolving Tastes [http://evolvingtastes.blogspot.com/2007/07/oats-la-pongal.html], a "fusion" dish which was inspired by Tamil cuisine. On the day this author went to prepare the original Pongal Oats recipe I was short several ingredients and so made several substitutions and threw in a few other things I had handy.

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