Pearl Millet Kichadi

Pearl Millet is a millet which is very good for diabetic patients. It has a low glycemic index.  But cooking Pearl Millet  takes a little longer time than usual .  To make cooking easy we can use broken Pearl Millet. We get it here in chennai Pearl Millet in broken form ( Pearl Millet Rava).

If you don't get as rava, you can break the millet  into rava . Wash the millet with water and immediately put into the mixi jar and run the mixi for a few minutes. You will get the millet as rava.( you need not soak)

Let us prepare Kichadi with this Pearl Millet ( broken).

You need :

1. Pearl Millet ( Broken)--- 1 cup.
2. Potato (optional) ---1 cut into pieces.
3. Carrot---1
4. Green peas----a little.
5. Onion---- 1
6. Green chillies---1 or 2 (as you require)
7. Tomato--1 
8. Mustard seeds--1 tea spoon.
9. Urad dhal---1 tea spoon.
10. Curry leaves---a little.
11. Salt ---- as required.
12. Oil---1 spoon for Garnishing.

Cooking Instructions :

Cut the onion and all other vegetables into pieces.

Add oil to a frying pan and heat. When it is hot, add the mustard seeds,  urad dhal. when it  splashes, add the cut onion, green chillies, cut tomatoes. curry leaves and all other vegetables. let it get fried for a few minutes. Then add the broken millets , keep frying for 2 or 3 minutes. Then transfer the contents to a vessel to be cooked in the cooker.  Add three and a half  cups of water( 3 cups for the millet and 1/2 cup for the vegetables) and add the required salt.Mix well  and pressure cook , for five or six whistles.Put off the gas.

When the cooker is cooled down , remove the millet kichadi from the cooker. Mix well , Serve it hot with chutney or sambhar. This goes well even with curd.

Barnyard Millet Pongal.

Barnyard millet contains, protien, iron, fibre in higher quantitites than in our normal rice. 
Let us see how to make pongal with this millet.

 All you need :

1. Barnyard Millet --1 cup'
2. moong dhal ---1/4 cup.
3. pepper -1 tea spoon.
4. jeera ----1 tea spoon.
5. ghee 1 tea spoon.
6. cashew a little.
7. ginger a small piece( finely cut)
8. curry leaves a little.
9. salt to taste.

preparing instructions:

Fry the moong dhal a little. keep aside. Wash the millet with water and  mix with fried dhal. Pour three cups of water.Place this in the cooker and cook till you get   3 or 4 whistles.  Then remove  the cooker from heat.and allow it to cool.
Remove the cooked rice from the cooker.Mix the cooked rice and dhal a little. Add the required salt. If you feel like adding water, you can do so. But please add hot water.  Keep aside.

Now heat the ghee in a fryinng pan,. Add Pepper, jeera cashews and fry them till they turn red. Now add the ginger pieces and curry leaves and add this garnish to the pongal.

serve this pongal hot, with chutney. 

P.S. This barnyard millet increases in quantity when cooked and  so take care of the quantity while cooking.  Even  if we eat a little we have a sense of fullness.

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