One-pot Dump and Go recipe with millet that is easy to make and taste delicious. You can make this Indian style millet recipe with any small millets like foxtail millet, little millet, proso millet, Kodo millet, and enjoy it for breakfast or lunch or dinner.
½cuplentils or black-eyed peasany lentils like green gram, red lentil, pigeon peas
4cupswater
3potatoessmall sized
2carrots
12green beans
3clovesoptional
2green cardamom
½teaspoonred chili powder
½teaspooncoriander seeds powder
¼teaspoonturmeric powder
salt to taste
Ingredients for making tadka for millet khichdi
1tablespoonoil
¼teaspoonmustard seeds
¼teaspooncumin seeds
2whole red chilioptional
pinch of hingoptional
Instructions
Take a pressure cooker or an Instant pot inner pot and add soaked and washed lobia and millet.
Add chopped veggies of your choice, I used potato, carrot, and beans here.
And add turmeric powder, red chili powder, coriander powder, salt, cloves and cardamom.
Add water and pressure cook for 2-3 whistles for approximately 15 minutes. If using an Instant pot, select pressure cook mode and cook for 8 minutes on high pressure. Make sure to close the VENT.
Let the pressure release naturally or do force release after 10 minutes.
Make tadka with all mentioned tadka ingredients.
Add the tadka to the cooked millet mixture, mix it well and adjust the salt.
Add the coriander leaves and the millet khichdi is ready to serve!