Recipe: Tasty Foxtail Millet Pongal

Foxtail Millet Pongal. Tasty Pongal enriched with the goodness of Thinai. Tastes good with Smbar and coconut chutney. All contents in this video are Copyrighted Healthy Food.

How to prepare Foxtail Millet Sweet Pongal- Tinai Chakkarai Pongal. Navane pongal or foxtail millet pongal recipe explained with step by step pictures. This pongal can be prepared using any siridhanya or millets. You can have Foxtail Millet Pongal using 14 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Foxtail Millet Pongal

1. You need 3/4 cup of foxtail millet.
2. You need 1/4 cup of roasted moong dal.
3. It's 2 tbsp. of oil.
4. You need 1 tsp. of mustard seeds.
5. It's 1 sprig of curry leaves.
6. You need 1 tsp. of urad dal.
7. You need 1 of dry red chilli.
8. You need 1-2 of green chilli, slit.
9. You need 1 tsp. of ginger, grated.
10. You need 1/2 tsp. of whole peppercorns.
11. Prepare 2-3 tbsp. of roasted cashew nuts.
12. Prepare to taste of salt.
13. It's 1 tbsp. of ghee.
14. Prepare 1 tbsp. of coriander leaves, chopped.

Learn tasty and healthy siridhanya recipes. We coined our pongal recipe with foxtail millet and moong dal. Foxtail millet is called Tinai in Tamizh and Kangni in Hindi. You may choose to use the grain and lentil of your choice.

Foxtail Millet Pongal step by step

1. Soak the foxtail millet and moong dal for 2-3 hours. Pressure cook with 3 1/2 cups water and salt to taste for 4-5 whistles. Keep aside..
2. Heat oil in a pan and temper with mustard seeds & red chilli. After it stops spluttering, add the curry leaves, green chilies, peppercorns, ginger, urad dal and roasted cashews..
3. Saute for a few seconds and pour this tempering over the boiled millet-dal mix. Drizzle some ghee over it and garnish with coriander leaves. Serve with coconut chutney & sambar..

Thinai Ven Pongal made with foxtail millet is a wonderful variation to the Kara Pongal or Savory Thinai Ven Pongal is absolutely a similar recipe like Ven Pongal / Khara Pongal, except it is made. Thinai pongal is a pongal made using Thinai (Foxtail Millet) instead of conventional rice. Millets comes with its own health benefits and hence its recommended to add millet as part of our regular diet. Being gluten free and diabetic friendly the use of foxtail millet in this kara pongal recipe makes it a filling meal. Try out this simple one pot version.