5 Healthy Indian Millet Recipes| How to Cook

Healthy Indian Millet Recipes: Nowadays, all are trying to include millets in their diet plan. But eating them in the correct manner, only you will get the benefits. Otherwise not.

Add only one millet to the recipe. Please don’t mix them.

Suppose you are eating kodo millet all day, fiber that will clean your blood all over your body. If you eat foxtail millet all day, the fiber in that will clean your nerves. If we mix all of them, from each millet you will get a small quantity of fiber. That will not do any work properly. So eat only recipes that are made only from one millet.

Make your interesting recipes from only one millet. Below I am suggesting to you the best healthy millet recipes, which are very interesting.

Best 5 Indian Millet Recipes

1. Finger Millet (Ragi) Laddu

Ingredients:

• 1 cup Ragi millet
• ½ cup jaggery (grated)
• 1/4 cup ghee
• 2 tablespoons grated coconut (optional)
• Cardamom powder (1/2 teaspoon)
• A handful of chopped nuts (cashews, almonds)

How to Cook:

1. Take a pan and put the finger millets in it. Roast until it turns golden color. Let it cool.
2. Grind the roasted millet into a powder.
3. Take some ghee and add jaggery.
4. Make a syrup.
5. Add grated coconut and cardamom powder to the syrup.
6. Add the millet powder and mix well.
7. Make small laddus.
8. Garnish with chopped nuts.

Health Benefits:

1. Ragi laddus are packed with calcium, iron, and essential amino acids. They support bone health, improve immunity, and boost energy levels.
2. These laddus are high in fiber. So, they improve digestion. They are an excellent snack for weight control.

2. Kodo Millet Pulao

Ingredients:

• 1 cup kodo millet
• 1 onion (chopped)
• 1 tomato (chopped)
• 1/4 cup peas
• 1 carrot (chopped)
• 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
• 1 bay leaf
• 2-3 cloves
• 1-inch cinnamon stick
• 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
• 1 teaspoon garam masala
• Salt to taste
• 2 cups water

How to Cook:

1. Wash the kodo millet neatly
2. Soak it for 15 minutes.
3. Heat some oil in a pan.
4. Add cumin seeds, bay leaf, cloves, and cinnamon.
5. Add chopped onions. Wait until they become golden brown.
6. Add tomatoes, peas, carrots, and turmeric powder. Cook for 5 minutes.
7. Add garam masala and salt. Then mix well.
8. Add the soaked kodo millet. Then add enough water to cook.
9. Cook until water is absorbed.
10. Finally, the pulao is ready.

Health Benefits:

1. Improves muscle health.
2. Very good for type 2 diabetes.

3. Foxtail Millet Dosa

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup foxtail millet
• 1/4 cup rice
• 1/4 cup urad dal (black gram split)
• 1/2 teaspoon fenugreek seeds
• Salt to taste

How to Cook:

1. Wash and soak the millets, rice, urad dal, and fenugreek seeds together overnight.
2. Grind all the grains into a smooth batter.
3. Keep the batter overnight outside.
4. Heat a non-stick pan or dosa tawa and grease it lightly.
5. make dosa. If you want to put one tablespoon of oil on each dosa.
6. Serve with coconut chutney.

Health Benefits:

1. Good for Heart Health
2. maintain healthy blood pressure.

4. Pearl Millets Chapati

Ingredients:

• 1 cup millet flour (use any millet like finger millet, sorghum, or Pearl millet)
• 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
• Water as needed
• Salt to taste

How to Cook:

1. In a mixing bowl, combine millet flour, whole wheat flour, and salt.
2. By adding water, make the mixture into a smooth dough.
3. Make into small balls. Roll them into flat chapati’s.
4. Heat a tawa or griddle and cook the chapatis on both sides, applying some ghee or oil for a crisp texture.
5. Serve hot with a vegetable curry.

Health Benefits:

1. lower cholesterol.
2. prevents constipation.

5. Little Millet Noodles

Ingredients:

• 1 cup Little millet flour
• 1 tablespoon rice flour (for extra smoothness)
• Salt to taste
• Water as needed
• 1 tablespoon olive oil (optional)

How to Cook:

1. In a mixing bowl combine millet flour, rice flour, and salt.
2. Gradually add some water and make a dough.
3. Divide the dough into small pieces.
4. Then roll them into noodles.
5. Boil some water. Add the noodles and cook for 2 to 3 minutes or until they float to the top.
6. Remove the water and take only the noodles.
7. Take a pan and put some oil in it.
8. Add vegetables like carrots and cabbage to it.
9. Add noodles and enough salt and dhaniya powder. Add some lemon.
10. Add some sauce.
11. Serve and enjoy.

The noodle recipe is made as per our Indian style.

Health Benefits:

1. Healthy digestion.
2. Regulate blood sugar levels.