Recipe of Favorite Foxtail Millet Pongal

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Foxtail Millet Pongal Recipe. Tasty Pongal enriched with the goodness of Thinai. Tastes good with Smbar and coconut chutney.

You can cook Foxtail Millet Pongal using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Foxtail Millet Pongal

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

Navane pongal or foxtail millet pongal recipe explained with step by step pictures.This pongal can be prepared using any siridhanya or millets.Learn tasty and healthy siridhanya recipes.Millet pongal recipe - sharing another millet recipe that is filling, healthy and protein rich.

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.

How to prepare Foxtail Millet Sweet Pongal- Tinai Chakkarai Pongal.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.

I have used hulled foxtail millet, called as thinai in tamil, korralu in telugu & navane in kannada.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 is adapted to well-drained soils.