Recipe: Tasty Sprouted Foxtail millet/Thinai laddu

Sprouted Foxtail millet/Thinai laddu. Thinai Maavu Laddu - Recipe for laddu made with thinai (foxtail millet). Roasted foxtail millet flour is mixed with melted jaggery and made into laddus. Some households add peanuts while some dont.

Thinai laddu recipe, a healthy laddu made with thinai(foxtail millet) and then(honey). Ever since I started cooking millets this foxtail millet honey balls is in my to try list after I heard it from my neighbour. Somehow I keep forgetting to try it. You can have Sprouted Foxtail millet/Thinai laddu using 7 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Sprouted Foxtail millet/Thinai laddu

1. It's 1 cup of Foxtail millets.
2. Prepare 1/4 cup of split Moong dal.
3. You need 1 cup of Jaggery.
4. It's 6 of Green Cardamom.
5. Prepare 1/4 cup of Water.
6. Prepare 1 tbsp of Ghee.
7. It's 2 tbsp of Nuts of choice, chopped.

Now that the honey dripper I bought recently is the. Foxtail millet, scientific name Setaria italica (synonym Panicum italicum L.), is an annual grass grown for human food. It is the second-most widely planted species of millet, and the most grown millet species in Asia. Thinai Laddu recipe a traditional laddu made with foxtail millet flour and honey.

Sprouted Foxtail millet/Thinai laddu step by step

1. Video recipe link: youtu.be/vIPJUoB403w.
2. Soak Foxtail millet for 4 hours to overnight. Next day drain water & tap dry. Tie it in a cotton cloth to sprout..
3. Once sprouted, dry roast it in a pan until slightly browned. Keep the flame in medium..
4. Wash Moong dal & pat dry. Dry roast it until browned..
5. Grind roasted millets & dal to fine powder with green cardamom in a blender. Remove the skin & add only seeds of green cardamom. Sieve flour if needed..
6. Make jaggery syrup with jaggery & water. No need of any consistency, set aside once jaggery dissolves..
7. In a pan, add Ghee & fry the chopped nuts. Then add the powdered flour & roast for 2 mins..
8. Switch off flame & add the Jaggery syrup & mix well. Add ghee if needed..
9. Let it cool for sometime & make round ladoos out of this mixture. Add ghee if the flour is too dry..
10. Delicious & Healthy millet ladoos are done. Enjoy it with family..

Thinaiyum thenum is also called as foxtail millet honey balls. Do not sun dry it, just dry in room itself. Then dry roast thinai until nice aroma comes, the color will change slightly. and you see it turning crisp. Wash and soak millets and dal separately in Thank you for liking my recipes. Actually you get thinai without husk in health stores.