Pearl Millet Recipes

Pearl millet Onion Muthias

Pearl millet – 1 cup, onions chopped, turmeric, chilli powder, coriander, cumin seeds, ginger-green chilli paste, baking soda, salt and oil – as required.

• Combine all ingredients and mix well and knead into a semi-soft dough.
• Apply a little oil and shape into cylindrical and cut into slices.
• Heat the remaining oil in a non-stick pan and add the mustard seeds.
• Shallow fry the pieces in oil and season with cumin seeds.
• Serve hot garnished with coriander.

Pearl Millet Upma

Pearl millet rawa – 1 cup, chopped onions, green chillies, carrot, beans, potato, ginger, mustard seeds, blackgram dal, bengal gram dal, curry leaves, water and oil – as required.

• Roast pearl millet rawa till it turns brown.
• Season with chopped onions, green chillies, veggies, finely blackgram dal, chanadal, curry leaves, mustard seeds, curry leaves and green chillies.
• Add carrots, beans, and potato saute for 2 to 3 minutes.
• Add water and add roasted rawa cook well till it becomes soft and serve hot.

Pearl Millet Roti

Pearl millet flour – 1 cup, water – as required.

• Add hot water to the sieved pearl millet flour. Knead into smooth soft dough.
• Make round ball and spread it into round shape on polythene sheet by rolling stick or by hand pressing with palm.
• Bake the roti properly on both the sides of a pre heated tawa.
• Serve hot with any curry or dal.

Pearl Millet Pakoda

Chopped onion, green chilli; pearl millet flour – 1 cup, bengal gram flour – ½ cup; chilli powder and salt – as required.

• Mix pearl millet sorghum flour, bengal gram flour, chopped onion, green chilli, chilli powder, salt and water with medium batter consistency.
• Fry the batter in oil with the required shapes.
• Excess oil is removed in a tissue.
• This is served as evening snack along with tomato sauce.

Pearl Millet Halwa

Pearl millet flour– 1 cup, jaggery – 1 cup, butter – 1 cup and milk – 1 cup.

• In one pan roast pearl millet flour in ghee until the aroma and color changes.
• Add milk to the mixture and cook.
• Add the melted jaggery, ghee and mix well without formation of lumps till thick consistency.
• Pour the prepared batter in a mould and allow to set.

Pearl Millet Pesarattu

Pearl millet – 1 cup, whole green gram – 1 cup, red chillies – 4, green chillies – 2, chopped onion – 2-3, ginger – ½ inch, salt to taste and coriander leaves chopped – 2 tsp.

• Soak pearl millet and whole green gram together for 5-6 hr and grind them to batter consistency and ferment for 3-4 hr.
• Grind red chillies, green chillies, ginger, needed salt and add to the batter along with finely chopped onions and coriander leaves.
• Heat a tawa on medium flame and put pesarattu.
• Flip the pesarattu to the other side for cooking on both sides.
• Once cooked remove from tawa and serve hot with any chutney / sambar.

Pearl Millet Thalipeeth

Pearl millet flour – 1 cup, rice flour – 2 tsp, onions – 1 finely chopped, green chillies – 1 to 2 (optional), garlic paste – ½ tsp (optional), salt to taste, coriander – (2-3) tsp finely chopped, oil – for cooking, warm water – to knead and ajwain – ½ tsp.

• Mix all ingredients by adding warm water and knead into a dough.
• Make small (golf ball size) rounds of the dough and on plastic sheet apply some oil and press it into a flat circle and create hole in the center.
• The thalipeeth shouldnt be too thin, as it may break.
• Shallow fry in a pan.
• Remove on paper napkin, serve hot with chutney, sauce or pickles.

Pearl Millet Khichidi

Pearl millet – 1 cup, moong dal – 1 cup, potato, carrot, beans, green peas, salt, oil, onion, green chilies, tomato, asafoetida, cumin seeds, mustard seeds, ginger garlic paste, red chili powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder, 2 tbsp - chopped coriander leaves, lemon juice – as required.

• Soak pearl millet grain and moong dal over night.
• Boil all the vegetables.
• In a pressure cooker add soaked, washed pearl millet grain, moong dal, all the vegetables, green chilli, salt, turmeric powder and 4 cups water and cook for 3-4 whistles.
• In a pan saute onion, green chilli, asofoetida, cumin seeds and mustard seeds in oil.
• Add red chili powder, and mix cooked millet grain well, simmer for 2-3 mins, adjust salt if required.
• Season with coriander leaves and lemon juice and serve hot.