Recipe: Perfect Foxtail Millet Pongal

Foxtail Millet Pongal. Tasty Pongal enriched with the goodness of Thinai. Tastes good with Smbar and coconut chutney. All contents in this video are Copyrighted Healthy Food.

How to prepare Foxtail Millet Sweet Pongal- Tinai Chakkarai Pongal. Navane pongal or foxtail millet pongal recipe explained with step by step pictures. This pongal can be prepared using any siridhanya or millets. You can cook Foxtail Millet Pongal using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Foxtail Millet Pongal

1. You need 1 cup of foxtail millet.
2. Prepare 1/2 cup of yellow moong daal/split mung beans.
3. It's to taste of Salt.
4. It's 1 Tb of black pepper corns.
5. It's 1/2 inch of ginger deskined.
6. You need Handful of curry leaves.
7. Prepare 4-5 Tb of ghee /clarified butter.
8. It's 4-5 of cashews.
9. It's 1 pinch of asafoetida powder.
10. You need 1 Tb of cumin seeds.
11. Prepare of Water as needed to soak and cook.

Learn tasty and healthy siridhanya recipes. We coined our pongal recipe with foxtail millet and moong dal. Foxtail millet is called Tinai in Tamizh and Kangni in Hindi. You may choose to use the grain and lentil of your choice.

Foxtail Millet Pongal step by step

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.

Thinai Ven Pongal made with foxtail millet is a wonderful variation to the Kara Pongal or Savory Thinai Ven Pongal is absolutely a similar recipe like Ven Pongal / Khara Pongal, except it is made. 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. 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.