Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, barnyard millet pongal. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Millet pongal recipe - sharing another millet recipe that is filling, healthy and protein rich. You can use any other millet like kodo millet (varagu), little millet (sama) or barnyard millet to make this. Barnyard millet also called as "Kuthiraivali" in Tamil is another nutritional rich millet.
Barnyard millet pongal is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Barnyard millet pongal is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook barnyard millet pongal using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Barnyard millet pongal:
- Make ready 1 cup Kuthiraivali /barnyard millet -
- Get 1/2 cup Moong dal -
- Get to taste Salt
- Get 4 cups Water -
- Make ready To temper ;
- Get 1 tsp Cumin seeds -
- Make ready 1 tsp Peppercorns -
- Prepare 5-6 Curry leaves
- Prepare 1/4 tsp Asafoedita -
- Take 1 inch Ginger (finely chopped)
- Take 2 tsp Oil -
- Make ready 1 tsp Ghee -
- Get as needed Cashews
- Get 1/2 tsp turmeric powder -
Barnyard millet is high in fibre and rich in minerals. Traditional South Indian sweet pongal made with barnyard millet, jaggery, milk, nuts and cardamom. I used Barnyard (Kidhiraivalii) millet instead of rice to recreate a healthier alternative to the I have made pongal with Kodo, Little, Barnyard and Foxtail millets and all tastes awesome! Barnyard millet is said to be the fastest growing millet which is gluten free and highly nutritious.
Steps to make Barnyard millet pongal:
- Heat oil and ghee in a pressure cooker. Temper all the above ingredients. Wash and soak the kuthiravali for 30 mins. Soaking is optional. I generally dont soak. Add the washed millet and moong dal. Add water and salt.Stir well. Cook for about 5-6 whistles.
- Once the pressure is released, give a nice stir.
- Heat oil and ghee in a ladle, add all the tempering ingredients.
- Temper and mix it along with the cooked dal and rice. Stir nicely
- Lovely venpongal ready to be served with chutney or sambar.
Now we learn to make healthy kuthiraivali pongal recipe. Similar Recipes, Kuthiraivali Kozhukattai Kuthiraivali Upma Ven Pongal Yellow Pongal Rava Pongal. Grind millet draining water almost completely. It may not need water so add carefully otherwise will become watery. Ready to serve Kodo millet pongal(varai kichadi).
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