Breakfast

Millet Milk

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Ragi and Millet Milk Recipe
Cooks in: 40 Minutes Serves: 8 People

Milk can be extracted from millets. Ragi milk is widely popular and sprouted grains are used for this purpose. Foxtail millet and Proso millet can also be used to extract milk. For this recipe I used Proso Millet. This milk can be used for making smoothies, kheer, popsicle etc. I will be sharing all those recipes soon.

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Breakfast

Vellai Paniyaram

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Chettinad Breakfast Vellai Paniyaram
Cooks in: 20 Minutes Serves: 2 People

Vellai Paniyaram is a traditional dish  prepared in every Chettinad home for breakfast. The dish gets its name from the colour of the paniyarams! Raw rice is soaked and blended to a smooth batter and deep fried. I used Kodo millet for this recipe and got beautiful paniyarams.

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Breakfast

Uthappam

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Millet Uthappam
Cooks in: 30 Minutes Serves: 4 People

Uthappam is a thick of dosa with veggies added to it. Generally sour dosa batter is turned in to delicious uthappams by adding spices and veggies. In this recipe, I have also included barley  along with other ingredients  which makes the dish more nutritious. 

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Mains

Tawa Pulav

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Cooks in: 20 Minutes Serves: 2 People

Tawa Pulav is a famous quick fix rice variety generally available with pav bhaji vendors of Mumbai! Big tawa is generally used to make this dish. Pre cooked veggies and rice are mixed with pav bhaji masala and turned into yummy pulav! I used Kodo millet for this recipe.

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Festive/Snacks

Nombu Adai

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Cooks in : 40 min Serves: 2 people

Karadayaan Nombu or Savitri Nombu is celebrated every year in mid March  by Tamil people. Sweet and salt adais are prepared as prasad and served with butter. I have used roasted jowar flour for this recipe. Adais made with ragi and bajra flour are also equally delicious!
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