Recipe of Ultimate Barnyard Millet Pongal

Hello everybody, welcome to my recipe site. Today I’m gonna show you a way to prepare a special dish, Barnyard Millet Pongal. It is one of my favourite food recipe, this time i’am gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna really delicious.

Barnyard Millet Pongal Recipe. Barnyard millet also called as "Kuthiraivali" in Tamil is another nutritional rich millet. Once the pressure is released, open the pressure cooker, mash the cooked pongal well.

You can cook Barnyard Millet Pongal using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Barnyard Millet Pongal

1. You need 3/4 cup of Barnyard Millet.
2. Make ready 1/4 cup of Moong lentil.
3. Make ready 1 tablespoon of ghee.
4. It’s 6-7 of black peppercorns.
5. It’s 1/2 tsp of cumin seeds.
6. It’s 1/3 tsp of Himalayan salt.
7. Make ready 1/4 tsp of turmeric powder.
8. It’s 1/4 cup of cashews.
9. Prepare 1/2 tsp of grated ginger.

Heat ghee in a pressure cooker.Add in dal, roast till golden.Add in millet along with water and salt.Barnyard millet is said to be the fastest growing millet which is gluten free and highly nutritious.

Barnyard Millet Pongal step by step

1. Peel the skin of ginger and grate it into small pieces.
2. Roast the cashews in ghee until just light brown color.
3. Take barnyard Millet and moong lentils and soak it in water.
4. Take all other ingredients in a small bowl.
5. Add Millet and lentils in an instant pot and and add 1.5 cups of water and add cumin, pepper and ginger to it.
6. Close the lid of Instant pot and set it in “Pressure Cook” mode for 6 mins and switch it “On”.
7. After the cooking is done, open the lid and add salt and turmeric to it. At this point add roasted cashews to it as well.Mix it well with a wooden spoon. Serve it hot with your favorite chutney. Or eat by itself..

You can use any other millet like kodo millet (varagu), little millet (sama) or barnyard millet to make this.Sweet pongal when made from the barnyard millet gets cooked easily and tastes delicious along with Serve the Kuthiraivali Sakkarai Pongal as a wholesome sweet after a delicious Indian lunch or.Wash dal and millet really well.

Now we learn to make healthy kuthiraivali pongal recipe.I used Kuthiraivali /Barnyard Millet for making this pongal and it's always a super hit, so I wanted to post this healthy (barnyard millet) pongal recipe to my readers.Ready to serve Kodo millet pongal(varai kichadi).I have already put up Barnyard millet idli and masala upma and this being the third recipe of this particular millet.I used Barnyard (Kidhiraivalii) millet instead of rice to recreate a healthier alternative to the I have made pongal with Kodo, Little, Barnyard and Foxtail millets and all tastes awesome!