Foxtail Millet Pongal Recipe / Navane pongal - How to make Millets Pongal
Foxtail Millets Pongal – tasty and healthy pongal made with gluten free millets
Ingredients
- 1 cup Foxtail millet / Navane/ any millet
- 1/2 cup Green gram / split moong dal
- 1/2 tsp Ghee
- 1/2 tsp Haldi / Turmeric
- Salt to taste
To Temper
- 2-4 tbsp Oil / ghee + oil / Ghee
- 1 tsp Mustard seeds
- 1 tsp Cumin /Jeera
- 1 tsp Pepper, coarsely crushed
- 1 tbsp Dry Coconut / Kopra, Finely chopped ( optional )
- few Cashews, optional
- 1/4 tsp Hing / Asafoetida
- 1 tsp Ginger, grated
- 3-4 nos Green Chilli, finely chopped
- few Curry Leaves
- 1-2 no Red Chilli, broken
- 1/2 tsp Haldi /turmeric
Instructions
- Clean , wash and soak foxtail millet for an hour or so
- Once moong dal changes a color bit , wash them nicely and keep them back on flame .
- Later , to the dal add soaked drained millets
- Add 4 cups of water .. ie in the proportion of 1: 4 .Add turmeric and 1/2 tsp Ghee , mix well
- Close the cooker and pressure cook for 3 whistles
- Add salt to taste and mix well . If you combine dal and millets nicely when the mixture is still hot , pongal gets nice creamy and mushy texture.
- Add water and adjust pongal consistency as per your choice , let it boil on low flame.
- By the time it boils , let’s prepare a tempering .
- To a pan add Oil and Ghee . Let they get hot . Once ghee is hot , add Mustard and Cumin seeds . Once mustard splutters , add finely chopped dry coconut , semi crushed Pepper and few Cashews .Later add Asafoetida , grated Ginger. finely chopped Green Chillies , Few Curry leaves and red chilli broken . Saute 1-2 mins . In the end add Turmeric and mix well . Now our tempering is ready .
- Pour the tempering over the cooked pongal , combine well and boil it just once.Let the pongal take in tempering flavors nicely
- super healthy and easy Millets pongal is ready to serve . Drizzle ghee over hot hot pongal and serve as such or serve it along with coconut chutney / sambar / tamarind gojju as side dish .