Millets Porridge Recipe with step by step picture. This Siruthaniya Kanji Recipe made with Rice , kambu and Thinai. Wholesome Porridge recipe.
Millets Porridge
I will never end my cooking with millets session in my blog. Because i am totally loving the taste and texture of them. I have started using them in my day to day life. Even today i made a tagi idyappam and it turned out to be a super hit. Will share the recipe in the coming weeks.
In this simple porridge i used 5 millets thinai, kambu, barley, kollu and cholam. Normallly i make ulundu kanji, wheat ulundu kanji or paal kanji..But this porridge has joined my everyday cooking list. I am making it quite often because i know i feel healthy at the end of it..Try this out and let me know how it turned out for you..
Ingredients for Millets Porridge Recipe (Siruthaniya Kanji Recipe)
- Rice - 1 cup
- Kambu / Pearl Millet - ½ cup
- Thinai / Foxtail Millet - ½ cup
- Kanam / Kollu / Horse Gram - ½ cup
- Barley - ½ cup
- Cholam / Sorghum / Jowar - ½ cup
- Garlic - 5 fat cloves or 10 small cloves
- Curry Leaves a handful
- Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam - 2 tsp
- Water - 8 cups (to cook the rice and millets)
- Water - as needed to thin the kanji
- Milk - 2 cups or as needed to thin the kanji
- Salt to taste
How to make Millets Porridge Recipe (Siruthaniya Kanji Recipe)
- Wash and take all the millets in a kadai and roast it for 5 mins. Remove it and powder it in a blender coarsely.
- Now take washed rice in a pressure cooker, add in all the powdered millets, along with garlic, curry leaves, cumin seeds and 8 cup of water. Pressure cook it for 5 whistle. Simmer the flame for 10 mins, turn the heat off and let them pressure go all by itself.
- Now add in additional water, milk, salt and mix well
- Serve with pickle or thogayal.
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Millets Porridge Recipe | Siruthaniya Kanji Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup Rice
- ½ cup Kambu / Pearl Millet
- ½ cup Thinai / Foxtail Millet
- ½ cup Kanam / Kollu / Horse Gram
- ½ cup Barley
- ½ cup Cholam / Sorghum / Jowar
- 5 fat cloves or 10 small cloves Garlic
- Curry Leaves a handful
- 2 tsp Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam
- 8 cups Water to cook the rice and millets
- as needed to thin the kanji Water
- 2 cups or as needed to thin the kanji Milk
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- Wash and take all the millets in a kadai and roast it for 5 mins. Remove it and powder it in a blender coarsely.
- Now take washed rice in a pressure cooker, add in all the powdered millets, along with garlic, curry leaves, cumin seeds and 8 cup of water. Pressure cook it for 5 whistle. Simmer the flame for 10 mins, turn the heat off and let them pressure go all by itself.
- Now add in additional water, milk, salt and mix well
- Serve with pickle or thogayal.
Millets Porridge Recipe step by step pictures
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| Take all your ingredients |
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| Thinai |
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| Barley |
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| Horse Gram |
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| Kambu and Cholam, forgot to take a pic of cholam |
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| roast all these millet for a good 5 mins till they smell nutty |
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| take them in a blender |
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| powder them coarsely |
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| Wash rice and take them in a pressure cooker |
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| add in powdered thaniya |
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| add in water |
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| cumin, garlic and curry leaves |
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| mix well |
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| cover and pressure cook |
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| till everything is cooked |
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| add in salt |
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| some water |
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| some milk |
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| mix well |
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| Serve with pickle |
ARUVI KOVAI
Hi
Its really useful and mouth watering dishes presented here. I love the way the recipe is presented. I was in fact searching for this millet kanji recipe for sometime. One suggestion: Please use a proper template and Lay out in order to bring the list of old recipes on the top right or top left of your Blog. Keep going...! Hats off to you!!!
Raks anand
Made similarly with single millet today, coincidence 🙂
Krisshaa Chinni
Dear Aarthi,
Can I store coarsely grinded millets powder in fridge and feed my baby as and when needed.my daughter is around 21 months now
Aarthi
@Krisshaa ChinniI am not sure..If you started feeding your baby millets you can do it..Consult with your perdiatrician. BTW you can store the coarsely powdered millet in fridge..
Anonymous
Hi Aarthi,
Can i prepare this millet powder and add it in boiling water,milk and make porridge, instead of adding rice and pressure cooking?
Aarthi
@Anonymous i dont think it will be cooked in that time
Anonymous
As per the information i got we are not supposed to mix millet and eat.
Anonymous
Can we mix millet and cook