As I promised in my previous post,here is the long time due Sunday Biryani from my blog almost after a month.Yeah,I couldn’t post any biryani recipe for the past few weeks as I was concentrating on Diwali recipes.So this week,I wanted to share a healthy,interesting yet easy biryani recipe using millets.Actually speaking,I got the idea of making this biryani after I got few requests from my readers.I used little millet/Samai to prepare this biryani.I made a easy,no grinding biryani adding mixed vegetables for our lunch today.As I din’t have peas in hand,I used sweet corn kernels.It came out very well and it was tummy filling too.You can follow the same recipe and replace samai with varagu or Kuthiravali.I have mentioned the quantity of water for other millets in the Notes section.Please have a look at it before you try them.Lets check how to make this healthy,easy millet biryani recipe ! This recipes goes into my Sunday Lunch Recipes series 34
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other biryani recipes in this series .
Millet biryani/Little millet biryani recipe
Saamai biryani / Little millet biryani - Healthy Veg biryani using millets Cuisine: Indian
Category: Lunch
Serves: Serves 4
Prep time: 10 Minutes
Cook time: 20 Minutes
Total time: 30 Minutes
INGREDIENTS
1 cup = 200ml
- Saamai/Little millet - 1 cup
- Mixed vegetables ( 1 carrot,1 big potato,a handful of peas)
- Water - 1.5 cups
To saute
- Cooking oil or ghee - 2 tbsp
- Whole garam masala -1 cinnamon ,2 cloves ,1 cardamom,bayleaf,star anise
- Fennel seeds -1/2 tsp
- Big onion - 1 no
- G&G paste - 1/2 tsp
- Mint leaves - a handful
- Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
- Red chilli powder - 1 tsp
- Garam masala powder - 1/2 tsp
- Salt - as needed
- Curd - 1 tsp
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METHOD
- Chop the vegetables and keep aside.Heat a cooker base with oil and temper cinnamon,cloves,cardamom,bayleaf and marati moggu. Add fennel seeds n immediately put the onions and saute until transparent.
- Add G&G paste.Saute until raw smell goes off.Add half of the mint leaves and mix well.Add the chopped vegetables,red chilli powder,Garam masala powder and salt.Saute for a minute.
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Add water,remaining mint leaves,curd and washed saamai/millet. Mix well and pressure cook in low flame for one whistle.Remove after the steam is released.Check if its cooked well else add 1/4 cup of water,mix well and cook for one whistle in high flame. Do not add more water for samai as it may become mushy quickly. So take care.
- Fluff the rice with a fork and enjoy with raita !
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Note
- You can replace Samai with Varagu/kudo millet.The water quantity is the same.
- For Kuthiravali,water quantity would be 1:2.
- Instead of red chilli powder,u can use chopped green chillies too.
- For more flavor,u can add black stone flower/Kalpasi.
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Try this healthy millet biryani for your lunch and Enjoy !I had it with raita and potato kurma I made for breakfast,thenkuzhal.It was yum !
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