Millet Pongal
This is an easy millet Pongal recipe. Make your regular South Indian breakfast recipe more nutritious with millet grain.
Servings 3
Ingredients
- ½ cup millet Any small millets like Foxtail millet or Little millet or Proso millet or Kodo millet
- ½ cup moong dal
- 3 cups water
- ½ inch crushed ginger optional
- Salt to taste
Ingredients for making tempering to Millet Ven Pongal
- 1 tablespoon ghee or oil
- ½ teaspoon cumin seeds
- 10-12 curry leaves
- green chili optional
- pepper powder to taste
- pinch of hing
Instructions
Cooking millet mixture in an Instant Pot
- Add washed millet, washed moong dal to the Instant Pot inner pot
- Now add water, crushed ginger (if using) to it and close the lid.
- Seal the vent of Instant Pot and select manual mode. Cook for 8 minutes on high pressure.
- It will take around 10 to 12 minutes for pressure to build up. Once the Instant pot stops, wait for 10 minutes and do a manual pressure release.
- Add salt and give a good stir to millet lentil mixture. You can add more water as per your choice of consistency.
Cooking millet mixture in a pressure cooker or an electric rice cooker
- Add washed millet, washed mung dal to the pressure cooker, or electric rice cooker inner pot.
- Now add water, crushed ginger(if using) and pressure cook for 2 to 3 whistles. Once pressure is released naturally, add salt, mix the cooked millet dal and add water to adjust the consistency.
- If using an electric rice cooker, cook until it is done and add salt. You can add water to adjust the consistency as you desire.
Making tempering for ven Pongal
- Heat a small pan and add oil to it.
- Once the oil is hot, add cumin seeds, cashews, curry leaves, pepper powder, a pinch of hing, and let them fry for a couple of minutes and switch off the flame.
- Add this tadka and salt to the millet lentil mixture and stir it well. You can add water to adjust the consistency.
- Close the lid for a couple of minutes for the flavor to steep into the dish.
- Millet Kara Pongal is ready to serve! Enjoy it hot with a dallop of ghee!
Notes
- You can add a handful of peanuts also.
- Crushed ginger is optional but adds so much flavor to the Pongal. You can remove it once the millet mixture is cooked.