Ragi puttu

Ingredients:

Ragi Flour - 2 cups

Jaggery powder - 1/2 cup

Coconut grated - 1/4 cup

Dry ginger powder - 1/2 tsp

Cardamom powder - pinch

Method:

• Dry roast ragi flour until nice aroma comes.
• Cool down the flour, now add water little by little and mix properly.
• We should make as a ball but when we break it should break down.
• Now whisk this in a mixie twice.
• Tie in a cloth and steam it.
• Now mix the puttu with jaggery powder, dry ginger powder, cardamom powder.
• Add grated coconut at the end.

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Varagu upma kozhukatai

Ingredients:
Varagu[kodo millet] - 1 cup
Moong dal - 2 tbsp
Whole pepper - 1 tsp
Jeera - 1 tsp
Grated Coconut - 2 tbsp
Temper:
Mustard seeds - 2 tsp
Urad dal - 1 tsp
Hing - pinch
Curry leaves - few
Red chillies - 2

Recipe source : raks kitchen

Method:

• Grind moong dal, pepper and jeera coarsely.
• In a pan, temper the items listed.
•  Now add 3 cups of water and bring to boil.
• When it is boiling, add rice, grinded dal and cook for a minute.
• Now add grated coconut and cook covered for five minutes in medium flame.
• Now make balls when it is warm.
• Steam it for five minutes.
• Healthy kozhukatai is ready.

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Foxtail Millet Honey balls

Ingredients:
Foxtail millet - 3/4 cup
Grated jaggery -1/2 cup
Honey - 2 tbsp
cardamom powder - pinch
Ghee - as needed

Method:

• Dry roast foxtail millet until aroma comes. Cool down and grind it coarsely.
• Now in a bowl, add grounded millet, jaggery, honey, cardamom powder.
• Add ghee and make balls

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Millet Veg Pulao

Kodo Millet - 1 cup[Any rice can be used]
Carrot - 1
Turnip -1
Kohlrabi -1
Green Peas - handful
Ginger - 2 inches
Garlic - 6 pods
Cinnamon - 1 inch
Green Chillies - 3, chopped lengthwise
Big onion - 1, chopped finely

Recipe reference : rakskitchen.net

Method:

Grind ginger, garlic and cinnamon.
Heat oil in pan, add 2 cloves, 2 cardamom and one bayleaf.
When it splutters add onion, green chillies and grounded paste.
Cook until onion turns pink.
Now add all chopped vegetables.
Cook a little and ad rice.
Immediately switch off.
Now transfer all contents to rice cooker and add 2 cups of water with required salt.
When cooked, leave for sometime and then fluff it up with fork.
Millet veg Pulao is ready!!
Serve with any curry.

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Pearl Millet[kambu] Puttu

Ingredients:
Pearl Millet Flour [Dry roast pearl millet and grind]
Grated Coconut
Sugar

Method:

1. Take flour and sprinkle little salt in a bowl, mix it
2. Then add water little by little,mix it evenly such that entire flour is getting even moisture.
3. Try to hold the flour inside palm, if it comes in shape, then stop adding water.
4. Whip in a mixie for one or two times.
5. Then tie in a cheese cloth and steam it for ten minutes.
6. Then take out and add sugar when it is hot.
7. Add Grated coconut in the end.

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Little Millet[Samai] Idiyappam

1. Dry roast little millet[samai rice] until aroma comes.
2. Grind it nicely.[I have grinded in flour mill]
3. Take one cup of flour and prepare dough by adding water little by little.
4. Dough has to be loose and then it has to be pressed in idiyappam press.
5. Cook it in steam for 4 minutes. 
6. Healthy idiyappam is ready.
7. Serve with grated coconut and sugar.
8. Or else any sevai can be prepared.

Same as Banyard Millet Idiyappam.

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Palak Rice

Ingredients:
Recipe Source :spiceupthecurry.com
Samai rice[Little millet] - 1 cup
Palak - 1 bunch
Carrot - half, cubed
Green peas - 1/8 cup
Sweet corn - 1/8 cup
Coriander seeds -  1/2 tsp
Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
Cinnamon - 1/2 inch
Cloves - 2
Bayleaf - 1
Green chillies - 2
Onion - 1/2
Garlic - 2 cloves
Ginger - 1/2 inch

Method:

1. Clean palak and keep aside.
2. Dry roast coriander seeds, cumin seeds, cinnamon and cloves until nice aroma comes.
3. Then grind the roasted ingredients along with onion, green chillies, Ginger, Garlic and palak.
4. Heat oil in kadai, add bayleaf.
5. Then add the grinded paste and cook until all water evaporates.
6. Add vegetables and cook for a minute
7. Now add rice with 2 cups of water. Mix well and switch off.
8. Transfer to a rice cooker and cook.
9. Serve hot with some raita. I have prepared Pumpkin Raita.

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Cholam Paniyaram

Ingredients:

Idli rice - 1 cup

Raw rice - 1 cup

White Cholam[Sorghum] - 1 cup

Urad dal - 1/4 cup

Mustard Seeds - 1 tsp

Urad dal - 1/2 tsp

Shallots - handful, chopped finely

Green chillies - 3, chopped finely.

Curry leaves - few, chop if necessary.

Preparing batter:

1. Soak rice, urad dal and cholam separately.
2. Grind urad dal first for around ten minutes, then grind cholam along with urad dal.[I have grinded in grinder]
3. After it gets grinded little, add rice and grind like dosa batter.
4. Mix salt and keep for fermentation for 8 hours.

Preparing Paniyaram:

1. Add oil in a frying pan, then add mustard seeds followed by urad dal. 
2. Then add onions, green chillies and curry leaves. When onion turns pink add to the required batter.
3.  Prepare paniyarams.

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Banyard Millet[kuthiraivali] Idiyappam

1. Dry roast banyard millet[kuthiraivali rice] until aroma comes.
2. Grind it nicely.[I have grinded in flour mill]
3. Take one cup of flour and prepare dough by adding water little by little.
4. Dough has to be loose and then it has to be pressed in idiyappam press.
5. Cook it in steam for 4 minutes. 
6. Healthy idiyappam is ready.
7. Serve with grated coconut and sugar.
8. Or else any sevai can be prepared.

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Thinai dosa

Thinai rice[Foxtail millet] - 1 cup
Urad dal - 1/4 cup
Raw rice -1 tsp
Fenugreek seeds - 1tsp
salt - as required

1. Soak urad dal, fenugreek seeds and rice separately overnight.
2. Grind urad dal and fenugreek seeds first, then add rice to the urad dal and grind.
3. Add salt and ferment for 6 hours like regular dosa.
4. Prepare thin dosas as they will be crispy.

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Banyard Millet Curd Rice

Banyard Millet Rice - 1 Cup
Water - 3 cups

Seasoning :
Mustard Seeds - 1 tsp
Urad dal - 1/2 tsp
Green Chilli - 3 [chopped finely]
Ginger - 2 tsp
Curry leaves - few

1. Cook kuthiraivali rice by adding rice, water and salt in pressure cooker for 20 min.
2. Mash the rice nicely.
3. Add Gingelly oil and add the ingredients under 'seasoning'.
4. Nice healthy tasty curd rice ready.

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Instant Foxtail Millet Paniyaram

Foxtail Millet Flour(Thinai) - 2 Cups

Dosa batter - 1 cup

Cooking Soda - Pinch

Dry ginger Powder - Pinch (optional)

Grated Coconut - 1/3 cup (Optional)

Jaggery - as per taste

 

1. Powder jaggery with water and make it to boil and filter it.
2. Mix Millet flour, dosa batter and jaggery without any lumps.
3. Now add cooking soda and dry ginger powder.
4. Preheat paniyaram pan for few minutes by adding oil. [I used Gingelly oil]
5. Add grated coconut and cook in paniyaram pan.
6. Healthy and tasty paniyaram is ready.

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