Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, foxtail millet pongal. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Foxtail Millet Pongal is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Foxtail Millet Pongal is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
This foxtail millet Pongal is one such recipe that includes health and taste. Soaked foxtail millet and yellow lentils are cooked and seasoned with cumin, whole peppercorns, ginger pieces, curry leaves and cashews fried in ghee to prepare it. Foxtail Millet Pongal Recipe one of the popular and comforting south Indian breakfast recipes. Pongal refers to a grains steeped in a curry or gravy.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook foxtail millet pongal using 14 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Foxtail Millet Pongal:
- Prepare 3/4 cup foxtail millet
- Prepare 1/4 cup roasted moong dal
- Prepare 2 tbsp. oil
- Get 1 tsp. mustard seeds
- Get 1 sprig curry leaves
- Prepare 1 tsp. urad dal
- Take 1 dry red chilli
- Make ready 1-2 green chilli, slit
- Make ready 1 tsp. ginger, grated
- Prepare 1/2 tsp. whole peppercorns
- Prepare 2-3 tbsp. roasted cashew nuts
- Get to taste salt
- Get 1 tbsp. ghee
- Take 1 tbsp. coriander leaves, chopped
I didn't add any rice to make this Pongal also this is milk free and dal/lentil free… Foxtail Millet or Thinai Pongal also known as Navane Pongal in kannada is an easy and healthy South Indian recipe made with millets & yellow moong lentils in ghee tempered with few spices in a Instant Pot Pressure Cooker or stove top. Foxtail millet is known as korralu in telugu, navane in kannada and thinai in tamil. These are low in carbohydrates and low in glycemic index too, a factor used to measure the rise of sugar levels after consumption of a food. Hence they are suitable to diabetics.
Steps to make Foxtail Millet Pongal:
- Soak the foxtail millet and moong dal for 2-3 hours. Pressure cook with 3 1/2 cups water and salt to taste for 4-5 whistles. Keep aside.
- Heat oil in a pan and temper with mustard seeds & red chilli. After it stops spluttering, add the curry leaves, green chilies, peppercorns, ginger, urad dal and roasted cashews.
- Saute for a few seconds and pour this tempering over the boiled millet-dal mix. Drizzle some ghee over it and garnish with coriander leaves. Serve with coconut chutney & sambar.
These are low in carbohydrates and low in glycemic index too, a factor used to measure the rise of sugar levels after consumption of a food. Hence they are suitable to diabetics. They are also high in fiber and rich minerals making them a healthy grain. Foxtail millet is one of the oldest millet to have been recorded since the sangam period. I think foxtail millet is the only millet to have featured so predominantly in Tamil literature.
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