Samai Arisi Thayir Sadam(Little Millet Curd Rice)-The Magic Of Millets

I have already shared a similar recipe using Varagu Arisi (Curd rice) .Let get ready to intake lots of millets in replacement of white rice. Actually my kids don’t like millets. But once they stared to intake at least two in a week, they started liking the taste. So I started making curd rice, kichadi and dosa using millets this millet curd rice can be made within 20 minutes. I usually prepare this in the morning. It tastes so good along with a pickle, thogayal or potato fry

Nutritional Value

100 gms of Little millet has 9.7 gm of Protein 7.6 gm of Fibre 60.9 gm of carbohydrate

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Prep time	Cook time	Serves
5  mins	10 mins	2 persons

 

Cuisine:  South Indian

Recipe Type: Main Dish-Millets

 

Ingredients Samai Arisi(Little millet) -1 cup Water -3 cups Milk -1 tbsp. Curd -1 cup Seasonings Oil-3 tbsp. Mustard seeds -1 tsp Urad dhal -2 tsp Hing- pinch Curry leaves -2 sprigs Green chilli -1 slit Dry red chillies -2 nos Grated ginger -1 tsp Garnishing Grated carrot -1/4 cup Coriander leaves –few sprigs Pomegranate Seeds -3 tbsp.

 

Method

1. Wash the millet thoroughly and add it in the cooker along with 4 cups of water and pressure cook for 2 to 3 whistles. When the pressure release opens the cooker and gives a stir with little milk.

2. Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, when it splutters, add green chillies, ginger, and curry leaves. Sauté for 2-3 seconds and add it to the samai thayir sadam.

3. Garnish with coriander, grated carrot and pomegranate.

4.Your yummy Samai millet curd rice is ready.

Notes
Add milk and mash it well when it is hot. Once it cools, add curd, salt needed and mix well. If it is semi solid, add little bit water.

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Badam Milk

Badam Milk is a very popular drink in India. A sip of this milk is always comforting. It’s a Delicious healthy yummy drink. Once day when I went to Big Bazaar, my kids had Badam Milk and started liking it.It is one of their favorite drink. So wanted to try at home and hence tried it right away and was very happy with the outcome. It tasted great and really great as a refreshing drink for sunny evening.

                                                                                                                                             

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Prep time	Cook time	Serves
20 mins	10 mins	4 persons

 

Cuisine:  Indian                             

Recipe Type: Beverages

 

Ingredients Milk -1 ltr Badam – 1 cup Sugar -1 ¾ cup Saffron –few strands Cardamom powder -1/4 tsp Ghee -1 tsp Nuts -4 tbsp.(Garnishing)

 

 

Method

 

1. First soak badam in hot water for 5 mins, peel the outer skin. Then soak saffron strands in warm milk for some time.(I did not soak for long as it was in the morning hours).Grind the soaked and peeled badam with little milk to smooth paste .Boil milk in a hard bottomed vessel, add almond paste and mix well and simmer it for few minutes or until milk becomes slightly thicker.

 2. Then add in fried ghee and sugar mix well, boil till slight thick.Finally add in saffron milk and pinch of cardamom mix in will and boil for 1 min and switch off the flame mix in fried badam and serve. Garnish with chopped almonds and Serve hot or cold. Enjoy refreshing healthy drink.

 

Notes

 

Sugar can be varied according to your taste buds.

 

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Masoor Ki Dal (Red lentil)

Masoor Dal (Red lentil) gets cooked so fast and it tastes great when made as dal. I tried this Masoor dal, starting off with simple south Indian dal recipe using tomatoes and red chilies.

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Prep time	Cook time	Serves
10 mins	10 mins	2 persons

Cuisine:  North Indian

Recipe Type: Side dish for roti and rice

Ingredients Masoor Dal(Red lentil) -1 cup (soak for 1 hour) Cumin seeds -1/2 tsp Hing –pinch Curry leaves – 2 sprigs Chopped onion -1 no Tomatoes -2 nos Chopped Garlic -2 cloves Dry Red chilies -2 nos Turmeric powder -1/2 tsp Dhaniya powder -1 tsp Red chili powder -1/2 tsp Salt –to taste Cilantro –garnish Water -2 cups

Method

1. Cook the Masoor dal upto 4 whistles in the pressure cooker.

2. In a kadai, leave two spoons of oil, when it gets heated, add cumin seeds, when it crack's, add the Garlic slices, curry leaves and the slited green chilies, sauté them and add the tomato slices and fry them.

3.  Now add salt, turmeric powder, a pinch and mix. Add the mashed masoor dal to it and add enough water for the consistency.Garnish it with coriander leaves. It goes well with chapatti and Hot Rice.

4.  Adjust if needed and cook without the lid till the water dries up completely.

Notes

The color of the dal is in pink and orange mixed colour.but when cooked it just looked like our normal split yellow moong dal.Add garam masala powder for better results.

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Mushroom Peas Masala (Dry)

Mushroom is a low-calorie food and a good source of B vitamins. This is a simple and easy to prepare dish and will be a good side for chapatti. I thought the the best way to use them could be as a combo with some frozen peas & Indian spices.

Try this dish and let me know how it turns out.

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Prep time	Cook time	Serves
15 mins	15 mins	2 persons

 

Cuisine:  Indian

Recipe Type: Side dish for roti and rice

 

Ingredients Frozen Fresh peas -1 cup Mushrooms -200gms Large onion -1 no Chopped Garlic -2 cloves Grated ginger-1 tsp Turmeric powder -1/2 tsp Cumin seeds -1/2 tsp Red chili powder -1/2 tsp Curry powder -2 tsp Salt –to taste Cilantro –garnish

 

Method

1. Wash the mushrooms. If they are whole then slice them in to bigger pieces. Chop the onions, garlic and ginger. Heat both the oils in a frying pan and add cumin seeds, ginger, garlic to the pan.

2. After sautéing for a few seconds, add onion to the mix. Once onions are cooked (2 mins) add peas to it.Mix everything well and let it sit for a min. Now add the mushrooms and add just 2 tbsp. of water.

3. Add chili powder, curry powder, turmeric and the salt. Mix them well cover with a lid and leave it for 10 mins. Simmer the stove, mix it all well and remove from the stove.

4. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and enjoy your dish.

Served with

• Bread toasts or Indian breads
• As an appetizer
• Rice with Fenugreek Sambar

Notes

You can use ginger garlic paste if you run out of time during emergency.

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