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. Please do comment below if you try this recipe.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook 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. Get 1 cup foxtail millet
  2. Prepare 1/2 cup yellow moong daal/split mung beans
  3. Get to taste Salt
  4. Get 1 Tb black pepper corns
  5. Take 1/2 inch ginger deskined
  6. Take Handful curry leaves
  7. Get 4-5 Tb ghee /clarified butter
  8. Make ready 4-5 cashews
  9. Make ready 1 pinch asafoetida powder
  10. Take 1 Tb cumin seeds
  11. Take Water as needed to soak and cook

Thinai pongal is a pongal made using Thinai (Foxtail Millet) instead of conventional rice. Millets comes with its own health benefits and hence its recommended to add millet as part of our regular diet. Foxtail Millet (Thinai) is good for those with Diabetes. It regulates cholesterol levels, removes acidic elements from the body Serve this tasty and healthy pongal with sambar and chutney of choice.

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

Being gluten free and diabetic friendly the use of foxtail millet in this kara pongal recipe makes it a filling meal. Try out this simple one pot version. Thinai Pongal , Healthy foxtail millet Pongal Recipe. Foxtail millet is one of the oldest millet to have been recorded since the sangam period. Foxtail millet is adapted to well-drained soils.

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