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From breakfast to dinner, ancient grain serve to modern people – millet recipe

Millets, which are the ancient grains now using as the good source of nutrition for modern people. It has the ability to provide protein, fibre, iron, calcium & antioxidant property which nourish the body efficiently.

Here, we will discuss Six types of recipes which are both tasty, easy to cook & also nutritious.

Materials required — 

Preparation Time — 06 hours, Cooking time — 30 minute & For person — 08 

• Finger Millet Powder— 200 gm
• Black Gram (peeled) — 100 gm
• Salt — As per taste
• Oil — As per need

Methods of Preparation:

• Wash the Black Gram thoroughly and soak it for 04 hours.
• Grind the Black Gram that have been soaked
• Add the finger millet powder & salt, mix them well and leave it for 2–3 hours.
• Heat the pan and apply some oil into it.
• Please have a batter in the bowl and roll it in the pan like the making process of a pancake.
• Let it sit in the pan for 4 -5 minutes
• Now the finger millet Chakuli Cake is ready and serve with Green Chutney or any curry of your choice.

Materials required — 

Preparation Time — 30 minutes, Cooking time — 25 minute & For person — 06

• Litle Millet — 250 gm
• Green gram — 100 gm
• Onion — 1 piece
• Oil — 50 gm
• Ghee — 2 spoon
• Beans Vegetable — 50 gm
• Cauliflower — 50 gm
• Potato — 50 gm
• Carrots — 50 gm
• Green Chilies — as per need
• Tomato — 50 gm
• Fenugreek leaves — few
• Mustard seeds— 1/4th spoon
• Cumin — 1/4th spoon
• Ginger Garlic Paste — 1 spoon
• Turmeric Power — 1/4th spoon
• Coriander Leaves — few
• Salt — as per taste

Methods of Preparation:

• Wash the Green Gram in water and soak it at-least for 30 minutes.
•  Washing of little millet and keep in another bowl.
• Chop the Onion & Green chilies. Wash the vegetables and chop them.
• A medium size pan may be used and heat the oil.
• Add mustard seeds, Cumin seeds, Coriander leaves, chopped onions & chilly and fry on low flame till 2–3 minutes.
• Now add ginger garlic paste and fry on low flame for 2 minutes.
• Now add all vegetables, turmeric powder & tomato and fry for 5–10 minutes. Add Green Gram (Moong Dal) & Water into it and heat in medium flame till water boils.
• Add Little Millet & salt as per taste.
• Cover the pan with a plate and cook it for at-least 20–25 minutes. You have to stir occasionally.
• Soon after completion of cooking process, add chopped Coriander Leaves with Ghee & serve.

Materials required — 

Preparation Time — 10 minutes, Cooking time — 40 minute & For person — 06

• Foxtail Millet Rice— 125 gm
• Milk — 1 liter
• Sugar — 150 gm
• Ghee — 1 spoon
• Cashew Nut — 50 gm
• Cardamom— 1/4th Spoon
• Raisin — 25 gm

Methods of Preparation:

• Wash the Foxtail Millet Rice & keep it in a Bowl.
• Put a Pan and add some Ghee & heat in low flame
• Fry the Cashew Nut & Raisin here
• Take the Foxtail Millet Rice in a bowl & fry it in Ghee for 3 -4 minutes
• Taking of 01 Cup Milk with Water in another pot & boil it.
• Add the fried Foxtail Millet Rice in boiled Milk and cook for at-least 20 minutes.
• Now add sugar & stir gently till the rice is well cooked.
• Then, add some Cardamom powder and garnish some Cashew Nut with Raisin on the top of the Kheer.
• Now serve and taste

Materials required — 

Preparation Time — 15 minutes, Cooking time — 25minute & For person — 06

• Finger Millet Powder — 250 gm
•  Jaggery — 125 gm
• Cardamom Powder — 1/4th spoon
• Gound Nut — 25 gm
• Ghee — 25 gm
• Sesame — 25 gm

Methods of Preparation:

• Take a medium size pan and heat it in low flame for 2 minutes.
• Now add Finger Millet Powder and fry it for 6–8 minute in medium flame.
• After frying the millet, withdraw it from pan and keep in another pan till it cools.
• In the pan, take the Ground nut and fry it for 10 minutes in low flame. After turning of brown colour, take it out and keep in another pot.
• Now take some Sesame & fry for few seconds in low flame. Take it out in another pot.
• Take 100 ml water in the pan and add pieces of Jaggery into it & allow it to cook. Jaggery syrup may be prepared in a low to medium flame.
• After preparation of syrup, we have to strain it.
• Heat the Ghee in another pan. Add the fried Finger Millet powder, Cardamom Powder, Fried Gound Nut and Sesame into it and mix well.
• Add the Jaggery syrup into it and mix well
• Take some Ghee in Palm & prepare the Laddu.
• Place the remaining Sesame in a plate & scroll the Laddu over it, so that a layer of sesame is formed in Laddu.
• Now Laddu is fully prepared to taste

Materials required — 

Preparation Time — 10 minutes, Cooking time — 30 minute & For person — 06

• Finger Millet Powder — 300 gm
• Rice Powder — 200 gm
• Dry grated Coconut — 4 cup
• Jaggery — 200 gm
• Cardamom Powder — 1 spoon
• Round Peppercorns Powder— 1/2th spoon
• Ghee — 1 spoon
• Oil — 1 spoon
• Salt — as per taste

Methods of Preparation:

a. Preparation of stuff-

• Take a pan and keep grated coconut & jaggery. Heat it for 5 minutes in low flame. Stir gently & continuously so that jaggery & coconut will not born. 
• Add Cardamom powder & chilli powder and stir well.
• Take this mixture and heat it for 2 – 3 minute. Leave it to cool.

b. Preparation of Cake –

• Mix well the Millet and Rice Powder in a pot.
• Now take another pot and boil 04 cup of water. Then add ghee, salt, mixture of Millet-Rice powder and heat for 3 minute in low flame.
• Take it out & transfer all in another pot.
• Add water as per requirement in the mixture & mash in oiled hand till it becomes soft. Now prepare small round shape balls.
• After mashing this dough in hand, fill the fillings/stuffs & close it.
• Boil it for at-least 10 minutes.
• Now take it out in a plate and serve in hot.

Materials required — 

Preparation Time — 10 minutes, Cooking time — 25 minute & For person — 05

• Little Millet — 250 gm
•  Onion — 1 nos. medium size
• Ginger — 1 inch
• Black Gram — 5 gm
• Chickpeas — 5 gm
• Oil — 50 gm
• Tomato — 1 no.
• Mustard seed— 5 gm
• Salt — as per taste
• Carrot — 1 no.
• Bean vegetable— 50 gm
• Turmeric powder — as per need
• Coriander Leaves — as per need

Methods of Preparation:

• Little Millet rice to be washed and keep in a dry place.
• Now chop the green chilli, onion, tomato & vegetables and keep separately.
• Take a medium size pan and heat the oil.
• Add the Cheakpeas & Black Gram into it & fry till become brown colour.
• Later please add mustard seeds, chopped ginger, coriander leaves, onion & chilli in pan and fry for at-least 2–3 minutes.
• Now add all chopped vegetables & tomato and fry it for 2–3 minutes.
• Salt, Turmeric powder & Water to be mixed and cook for 3–4 minutes.
• After boiling of water add the little millet rice & stir well.
• Cover the pan with a lid & cook for 10 minutes in low flame till drying of water.
• Now serve the hot Upma with sprinkled Coriander leaves over it.

Millets are gluten free, easy to digest, helps to lower the body weight, manages the diabetics & cholesterol level naturally. It’s the gift of nature & we should have a practice to take regularly.

Millets are rich in iron. Learn more about iron supplementation and its benefits

Reference from my previous post on Millet “What is millet & its gift to human“

Reference from Indian Institute of Millets Research : Nutritional_health_benefits_millets.pdf

Thanks and Regards.

About the Author – “Mr. Bibhu Ranjan Mund”, Master in Public Health (MPH) from IIHMR University, Jaipur (Rajasthan) has experience of 18 years in Public Health activities. Through “Lovely Health Tips-2025”, we share the evidence & experienced based health & wellness guides with solutions for every day well-being. More from Author

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