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Millet pongal is a healthy, nutritious and tasty recipe. One of the ideal recipe for diabetes patients and also good for growing kids, as millet contains healthy nutrients. Further, this little millet pongal is a healthy version to sankranthi pongal recipe. So simple to make and tastes amazing.
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Servings: 3
Ingredients
- ¾ cup Little Millet
- ½ cup Moong Dal
- 2 tbsp Ghee
- 1 tsp Cumin
- ¼ tsp Turmeric Powder
- 6 to 8 Black Pepper
- Green Chilli as per taste
- 1 tsp Ginger grated
- 10 to 15 Cashews
- ½ tsp Hing (Asafoetida)
- 6 to 8 Curry Leaves
- Salt as per taste
- ¼ cup Dry Coconut (Kopra) grated
Instructions
- Firstly take a small bowl and add 3/4 cup little millet. Add water and soak for 30 minutes. Drain off the water.
- Heat a pan and add split yellow moong dal. Dry roast the moong dal for 2 to 3 mins.
- Turn off the heat and wash the roasted moong dal and keep it aside.
- Meanwhile heat a cooker pan and add washed moong dal, little millet. Mix it well.
- Now add 3 cups of water and cover the lid. Pressure cook this for 3 whistles.
- Once the steam settled down on its own, carefully open the lid and mix again. keep this aside.
- Now heat another pan on medium flame and add a tbsp of ghee. Once the ghee is melted up, add cumin,turmeric powder and black pepper.
- Similarly add green chilli, grated ginger, cashews. Saute well until it splutters and cashews are golden.
- Likewise add curry leaves and hing. saute it for a min.
- Then add cooked moong dal & millet mixture. Add required amount of water.
- Mix everything well. Now add salt and give a quick mix.
- Turn off the heat and add grated dry coconut and ghee. Gently mix once.
- Now the tasty, healthy little millet pongal is ready to serve.
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