Cooked Pearl Millet
Millet is healthy and one of the budget-friendly gluten-free alternatives. It’s so easy to cook millet, start with putting water to boil in a cooking pan. For 1 cup of dry pearl millet, you need 2 cups of boiling water. Your fluffy pearl millet will be ready once the water has been completely absorbed.
Servings: 1 People
Calories: 200kcal
Equipment
- Vessel
Ingredients
- 2 Cups Pearl Millet
- 8 Cups Water
- 1 tbsp Gingelly oil Cold press oil
- 1 tbsp (As Required) Salt Table salt
Instructions
- Rinse the millet in plenty of water to remove husks, stones and un-hulled pieces.
- Grind the millet in a mixture coarsely.
- Boil water in a vessel, remove half the quantity of water and set aside.
- Add salt and gingelly oil to the rest of the water in the vessel, followed by ground millet.
- Once the millet starts to cook, it begins to harden- keep adding the remaining water in small amounts and cook for 30 minutes.
- Serve hot with Bengal gram chutney or greens kadayal.
Notes
Variant-Kambu kool:
This is a typical dish prepared in southern India during summer. The dish is prepared by cooking the millet with lots of water so that to obtain a gruel like consistency. It is then allowed to cool, to which sufficient buttermilk and pieces of cut onion and salt are added. The drink is refreshing and helps reduce body heat during summer.