Foxtail millet adai

Ingredients

1/4 cup each of greengram dal, bengalgram dal, blackgram dal and redgram dal

1 cup of foxtail millet (thinai in tamil)

Salt to taste

2-3 red chillies

Bit of asafoetida

Few curry leaves

Oil as required

Soak the millet and dal combination seperately for 3-4 hours. Grind the dals to a coarse batter and add the millet with red chillies. Grind again for 2-3 minutes. Add salt, asafoetida and curry leaves. Leave it for sometime to slightly ferment- about 2-3 hours.

Heat tava and pour a big ladle of batter. Spread it to a round not very thick and not very thin. Pour a tsp of oil in the sides and allow it to cook. When it turns slightly brown, flip and cook for a minute.

Serve hot with some avial and curd.

Foxtail millet sakkarai pongal

Foxtail millet is thinai arisi in tamil and kangni in hindi.

Ingredients

1/2 cup foxtail millet

1/4 cup greengram dal

3/4 cup powdered jaggery

3 tbsp ghee

8-10 cashews

Some raisins

1/4 tsp cardamom powder

A pinch of edible camphor (pacchai karpooram in tamil)

Cook the millet and dal with 3 times water. Soak the jaggery in little water and heat till it melts. Filter out any impurities and heat again till it gets sticky consistency. 

Add the cooked millet dal mix and stir well. Add half the ghee and cook on sim for five minutes. Mix in the cardamom powder and edible camphor. In a seperate pan heat the remaining ghee and add the cashews. Once lightly brown add in these cashews to the sakkarai pongal along with the raisins. Mix well and serve hot.

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