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Millet curd rice | Millet recipe with yogurt and spices

Shwetha
You will not miss rice in this millet recipe, great way to include millets in your diet.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Course Main Course, Side Dish
Cuisine Indian
Servings 3 people

Equipment

  • pressure cooker

Ingredients
  

  • ½ cup millet use any small variety of millet. Pls check notes
  • 1½ cup water
  • 1¼ cup yogurt/curd
  • 1 tsp salt or to taste
  • ¼ cup pomegranate optional
  • ½ cup sliced grapes optional
  • 1 fresh Indian/Thai green chilli optional, adjust to suit your taste
  • 1 tbsp chopped coriander leaves/cilantro optional

For oggarane/tadka/hot oil seasoning

  • 1 tbsp oil
  • ½ tsp black mustard seeds saasive/rai
  • ¼ tsp cumin seeds jeerige/jeera
  • 1 tsp split de-husked black gram/urad dal/uddina bele optional
  • 1-2 dry red chillies
  • 1 tsp grated ginger
  • 1 sprig curry leaves

Instructions
 

Cook millet.

  • Cook millet with 1½ cups water in a pressure cooker for 2-3 whistles.
    Note: I cook millet in an instant pot on high pressure for 8-10 minutes. Normal Pressure release.
  • Open the pressure cooker and let the millet come to room temperature.

Assemble curd rice

  • When the millet is cooling down, chop the fruits.
  • Add yogurt, salt, pomegranate, chopped grapes, cilantro, green chillies to cooked millet and mix.

Oggarane/tadka/hot oil seasoning

  • In a heavy bottomed pan, heat oil on medium-high heat.
  • Add mustard seeds, urad dal, cumin seeds.
  • When mustard splutters, add grated ginger and curry leaves. Stir for a few seconds.
  • Pour oil along with the seasonings over curd rice.
  • Mix and serve. Curd rice can be served at room temperature or chilled.

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Notes

  • You can also make this dish using rice instead of millet.
  • Rice/millet can be cooked one day ahead. 
  • This is also a great way to use up leftover cooked rice/millet. 
  • If serving immediately, split black gram/urad dal will be hard to bite on. Some enjoy the texture, but if you don't, skip adding urad dal or let the curd millet rest until urad dal softens.
MILLETS TO USE
Use smaller variety of millets like Kodo, Barnyard, Little millet, Foxtail millet. 
VARIATIONS
  • Chopped apples(raw) taste good in curd millet.
  • You can also add grated carrots(raw), finely chopped cucumbers(raw) in curd millet. 
  • You can also add roasted cashewnuts. 
P.S - More information about the ingredients is available above in the post.
Keyword millet