Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, foxtail millet pongal. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Foxtail Millet Pongal is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Foxtail Millet Pongal is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have foxtail millet pongal using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Foxtail Millet Pongal:
- Prepare 1 cup foxtail millet
- Prepare 1/2 cup yellow moong daal/split mung beans
- Take to taste Salt
- Take 1 Tb black pepper corns
- Get 1/2 inch ginger deskined
- Get Handful curry leaves
- Take 4-5 Tb ghee /clarified butter
- Take 4-5 cashews
- Prepare 1 pinch asafoetida powder
- Make ready 1 Tb cumin seeds
- Get Water as needed to soak and cook
Steps to make Foxtail Millet Pongal:
- Wash and soak thinai (millet) and moong dal for 10 mins, meanwhile grind ginger, cumin seeds and pepper corn to coarse powder, just run mixer for less than 10 secs to get coarse mixture.
- Heat 3 Tb ghee in a pressure cook add moong dal and saute for minute on medium flame, add the Millet next and saute for a minute too.
- Add whole peppercorns,salt, about 2 cups of water. mix well and pressure cook 4 whistles in medium flame.
- Once pongal gets cooked and while we wait for cooker to release pressure, in a small tadka pan heat 1 Tb ghee.
- Add asafoetida, curry leaves, ginger-cumin-pepper mixture we prepared and saute until they start to become brown.take off heat and add to the Pongal and mix well
- Now sauté the cashews using 1 Tb ghee and until they get golden brown
- Garnish the Pongal with cashews and serve hot with sambar and chutney of your choice
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