Curd rice or thayir sadam is a popular recipe around the world. It is comforting and taste delicious. This millet curd rice is a healthy option for your regular rice. Instead of regular rice use millet in curd rice for more health. I have shared kambu curd rice recipe and saamai curd rice recipe here.
Millet Curd Rice Recipe
I have been hunting for good recipes using millets. I wanted to make any simple lunch recipes using millets so we can include it in our lunch. Finally landed on sharmi's page. I found this curd rice quite interesting. I made it and it was so comforting and totally different from my normal curd rice.
Added lots of cucumber and carrots in my curd rice which made it so cooling and soothing. I served this with mango pickle..Check out pickle recipes.
About Millet Curd Rice
Curd rice or thayir sadam is a popular recipe around the world. It is comforting and taste delicious. This millet curd rice is a healthy option for your regular rice. Instead of regular rice use millet in curd rice for more health.
Millet curd rice makes a great summer lunch option. Add lots of cucumber and carrots to make it more nutritious. You could add fruits as well.
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Cucumber Carrot Curd Rice
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Millets Porridge
Other Millet Recipes
Ingredients for Millet Curd Rice
- Kambu / Pearl Millet - 1 cup ( I used broken variety)
- Water - 4 cup
- Curd / Yogurt - ¾ Cup
- Milk - 2 cup or adjust
- Salt to taste
- Cucumber - 1 medium size grated
- Carrot - 1 medium size grated
For Seasoning: - Oil - 1 tblspn
- Mustard Seeds / Kaduku - 1 tsp
- Urad dal / Ulundu Paruppu - 1 tsp
- Asafoetida / Hing / Kaya Podi - ¼ tsp
- Green Chillies - 2 chopped finely
- Ginger - 1 tsp grated
- Curry leaves - a sprig
How to Make Kambu Curd Rice
- Take pearl millet in a bowl and wash well. Add it to pressure cooker and cover with water. Pressure cook for 5 whistle, simmer for 15 mins. Turn off the heat and let the steam go all by itself. Open the cooker and fluff it up. Allow this cool.
- Now add curd, milk, salt and mix well.
- Add in grated cucumber and carrots. Mix well.
- Make seasoning. Heat oil and adding all the seasoning ingredients and saute for a min. Add that to the curd rice and mix well.
- Serve.
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| I used broken kambu, First add water to them and Rub them well with your hands and wash well |
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Ingredients
- 1 cup Millet (any variety)
- 3 cup Water
- ½ cup Curd
- 2 cup Milk
- Salt to taste
For Seasoning:
- 1 tbsp Oil
- 1 tsp Mustard Seeds / Kaduku
- 1 tsp Urad dal / Ulundu Paruppu
- ¼ tsp Asafoetida / Hing / Kaya Podi
- 2 Green Chillies chopped finely
- 1 tsp Ginger grated
- a sprig Curry leaves
- Coriander leaves finely chopped
Instructions
- Take millet in a bowl and wash well. Add it to pressure cooker and cover with water. Pressure cook for 2 whistle, simmer for 5 mins. Turn off the heat and let the steam go all by itself. Open the cooker and mix well. Allow this to cool.
- Now add curd, milk, salt and mix well.
- Make seasoning by heating oil and adding all the seasoning ingredients and saute for a min. Add that to the curd rice and mix well.
- Serve.
Nutrition
Millet Curd Rice Recipe Step by Step Pictures
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| Take millet in a cooker |
Jayanthi Sindhiya
Healthy curd rice,my dads fav millet is kambhu.
Anonymous
hi, I recently bought whole Pearl millets and want to cook it. Shall I follow the same instructions as mentioned above or is there a different procedure. Pls advise.
Aarthi
u can follow the same process