Foxtail Millet Pongal
Foxtail Millet Pongal

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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.

Foxtail Millet Pongal is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Foxtail Millet Pongal is something which I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have foxtail millet pongal using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Foxtail Millet Pongal:
  1. Make ready 1 cup foxtail millet
  2. Get 1/2 cup yellow moong daal/split mung beans
  3. Prepare to taste Salt
  4. Make ready 1 Tb black pepper corns
  5. Take 1/2 inch ginger deskined
  6. Prepare Handful curry leaves
  7. Get 4-5 Tb ghee /clarified butter
  8. Get 4-5 cashews
  9. Get 1 pinch asafoetida powder
  10. Make ready 1 Tb cumin seeds
  11. Make ready Water as needed to soak and cook

When you say Pongal, it is both the Harvest Festival celebrated in Tamil Nadu & it is also a Dish. The Festival & the dish commemorates each other. 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. To prepare Foxtail Millet Pongal, first dry roast foxtail millet and moong dal in a hot kadai.

Steps to make Foxtail Millet Pongal:
  1. Wash and soak thinai (millet) and moong dal for 10 mins, meanwhile grind ginger, cumin seeds and pepper corn to coarse powder, just run mixer for less than 10 secs to get coarse mixture.
  2. Heat 3 Tb ghee in a pressure cook add moong dal and saute for minute on medium flame, add the Millet next and saute for a minute too.
  3. Add whole peppercorns,salt, about 2 cups of water. mix well and pressure cook 4 whistles in medium flame.
  4. Once pongal gets cooked and while we wait for cooker to release pressure, in a small tadka pan heat 1 Tb ghee.
  5. Add asafoetida, curry leaves, ginger-cumin-pepper mixture we prepared and saute until they start to become brown.take off heat and add to the Pongal and mix well
  6. Now sauté the cashews using 1 Tb ghee and until they get golden brown
  7. Garnish the Pongal with cashews and serve hot with sambar and chutney of your choice

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. To prepare Foxtail Millet Pongal, first dry roast foxtail millet and moong dal in a hot kadai. This will bring nice aroma to the Pongal. 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.

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