Recipe for a Healthy Breakfast/ Dinner Using Millet
Dry roast the moong dal in a kadai until it turns to golden colour and you get a nice aroma, stirring it continuously. Transfer to a plate and keep it aside to cool.
Clean the foxtail millet and roasted moong dal and soak them together for 30 minutes.
Transfer the millet and dal to a cooker and add water. Add salt and stir once and close the cooker with the lid. Cook it for 2 whistles.
Reduce the flame to minimum and cook for 3 to 5 minutes and put off the stove. Let the steam get released naturally.
Heat 1 tablespoon of ghee in a frying pan and add cumin seeds, pepper, green chillies, ginger, and curry leaves and saute them for 3 to 4 minutes.
Finally, add the coriander leaves and add this with the contents in the cooker, stir well to combine.
Heat the remaining ghee in the same frying pan and add the cashews, and badam and saute them until they become crispy. Transfer the content to the pongal and mix gently to combine all.
Tasty and healthy millet pongal is ready for serving.
Side Dish: You can serve this with mixed vegetable sambar or Moong dal and brinjal sambar. Coconut Chutney and Tomato Chutney also goes well with this pongal!
