Millet pongal recipe with step by step pictures. Healthy and wholesome millet pongal made using foxtail millets, spices and cashews.
Millet Pongal Recipe
This is my latest favourite recipe. I love pongal a lot. I make it quite often too. Since hubby and me don't eat rice these days, i used thinai for making this and it was like super hit. I never missed rice in this. It tasted really yummy.
I served this with my all time favourite pumpkin sambar. It was so delicious. You can have it with coconut chutney or tomato chutney as well.
Similar Recipes,
Kuthiraivali Kozhukattai
Kuthiraivali Upma
Ven Pongal
Yellow Pongal
Rava Pongal
Ingredients for Varugu Arisi Pongal
- Kodo millet / Varagu 1 cup
- Moong dal ½ cup
- Water 4 cup
- Milk 1 cup
- Salt
- Ghee 2 tbsp
- Ginger 1 tsp
- Cashews 10
- Cumin seeds 1 tsp
- Black Pepper 1 tsp
- Green chilli 2
- Curry leaves
How to Make Varagu Arisi Pongal
Step 1
Take kodo millet, moong dal, water and salt in a pressure cooker. Pressure cook for 4 whistle. Open cooker once pressure is released. Add milk and adjust the consistency. Set aside.
Step 2
Make seasoning. Heat ghee, add all the seasoning ingredients from ginger to curry leaves and let them sizzle.
Step 3
Pour this seasoning over pongal and mix well. Serve with chutney or sambar.
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Varagu Arisi Kara Pongal Recipe
Thinai Kara Pongal Recipe
This is made using thinai arisi or foxtail millet. The pongal has a seasoning of spices and curry leaves tempered in ghee.
Ingredients for Millet Pongal
- Thinai / Foxtail Millet - ½ cup
- Yellow Moong Dal / Pasi Paruppu - ¼ cup
- Water - 3 cups
- Salt to taste
- Ghee - 1 tsp
- Black Pepper - 1 tsp
- Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam - ½ tsp
- Cashew - 5
- Urad dal / Ulundu Paruppu - 1 tsp
- Green Chilli - 1 chopped
- Curry leaves - 1 sprig
How to Make Millet Pongal
- Take ghee in a pan, add foxtail millet and moong dal and roast for 1 min. Take it in a bowl and add water to it.
- Now place this inside a pressure cooker which has some water in it and pressure cook for 10 to 12 whistle. Now turn off the heat and let the steam go by itself.
- Open the cooker and remove the bowl carefully from it. Open it and mash it roughly.
- Now heat ghee in a pan, add all seasoning ingredients and fry for a min.
- Add the cooked millets and salt. mix well.
- Serve with chutney or sambar.
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Millet Pongal | Millet Pongal Recipe | Siruthaniya Pongal Recipe | Millet Khara Pongal Recipe
Ingredients
Instructions
- Take ghee in a pan, add foxtail millet and moong dal and roast for 1 min. Take it in a bowl and add water to it. Now place this inside a pressure cooker which has some water in it and pressure cook for 10 to 12 whistle. Now turn off the heat and let the steam go by itself. Open the cooker and remove the bowl carefully from it. Open it and mash it roughly.
- Now heat ghee in a pan, add all seasoning ingredients and fry for a min.
- Add the cooked millets and salt. mix well.
- Serve with chutney or sambar.
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Millet Pongal Recipe Step by Step
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| Heat little ghee in a pan |
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| add moong dal |
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| add thinai |
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| roast for a min |
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| take it in a bowl |
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| add water |
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| i placed it inside a pressure cooker which has water in it. |
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| cook till done |
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| ingredients for seasoning |
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| heat ghee in a pan |
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| add everything in |
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| roast for a min |
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| add the cooked millets in |
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| add salt |
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| mix well |
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| serve |
Kuthiraivali Pongal Recipe | Barnyard Millet Pongal Recipe
This is my latest favourite recipe. I love pongal a lot. I make it quite often too. Since hubby and me don't eat rice these days. I used kuthiraivali for making this and it was like super hit. I never missed rice in this. It tasted really yummy. I served this with my all time favourite pumpkin sambar. it was so delicious. You can have it with coconut chutney or tomato chutney as well..
Similar Recipes,
Kuthiraivali Kozhukattai
Kuthiraivali Upma
Ven Pongal
Yellow Pongal
Rava Pongal
Preparation Time : 5 mins
Cooking Time : 30 mins
Serves : 3 to 4
Ingredients for Kuthiraivali Pongal
- Kuthiraivali / Barnyard Millet - 1 cup
- Yellow Moong Dal / Pasi Paruppu - ½ cup
- Salt to taste
- Water - 4 cup
- Ghee - 1 tsp
- For Tempering
- Ghee - 2 tblspn
- Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam - 2 tsp
- Whole Pepper - 2 tsp
- Green Chillies - 2 chopped finely
- Ginger - 1 tblspn
- Curry leaves - a sprig
How to Make Kuthiraivali Pongal
- Wash dal and millet really well. Drain it and set aside.
- Heat ghee in a pressure cooker. Add in dal, roast till golden. Add in millet along with water and salt. Pressure cook fo 3 whistle. Simmer for 5 mins. Turn off the heat and let them steam go all by itself. Open the cooker and mix well.
- Heat ghee in a pan. Add in all the ingredients for tempering. Mix well.
- Add the cooked dal millet and mix well.
- Serve with sambar or chutney..
Step by Step
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| Take all your ingredients |
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| Kuthiraivali / Barnyard Millet |
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| Wash them well |
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| Heat ghee in a pressure cooker |
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| Add in moong dal |
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| roast for few mins till nice aroma comes |
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| Add in washed kuthiraivali |
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| add salt |
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| water |
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| pressure cook |
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| all cooked |
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| Heat ghee in a pan |
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| Add in all the spices |
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| Saute this |
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| Once it turns nice and golden |
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| Add in the cooked dal and kuthiraivali |
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| Mix well |
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| Serve |
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