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Healthy Food Recipes - Millets (Small Grains) and Almond Milk Porridge (Siruthaniyam & Badam Kanji)
Posted on: 05/Mar/2015 11:55:44 AM
Ingredients:
- Almonds (Badam) – 7 nos
- Finger Millets (Ragi) – 2 tbsp.
- Foxtail Millets (Thenai) – 1 tbsp.
- Kodo Millet (Varagu) – 1 tbsp.
- Little Millet (Samai) – 1 tbsp.
- Barnyard Millet (Kuthiraivalli) – 1 tbsp.
- Basmati Rice or (Par- Boiled Rice) – 1 tbsp.
- Milk – 200 ml
- Salt – ½ tsp
- Sugar – 6 tbsp
- Water- 500 ml
Method of Preparation:
- Soak Badam and Ragi in water overnight.
- Soak Thenai, Varagu, Samai, Kuthiraivalli and Basmati Rice just half an hour before the preparation of the porridge.
- For better aroma and taste, just dry heat all the above mentioned ingredients before soaking in water.
- Drain the above all ingredients completely from water and add it in a mixer.
- Peel off the skin from Badam and add that too in the mixer. Just allow it to grind for a single round in the mixer without the addition of water.
- Now add required quantity of water and grind coarsely.
- In a heavy bottomed vessel, add water and milk and allow it to boil well.
- Now add the grinded paste and stir simultaneously so as avoid the contents getting sticking on to the bottom of the vessel.
- Add a half a teaspoon of salt to it.
- You can adjust the measure of the water depending on the thickness of the porridge.
- Allow it to boil for about 5 minutes and switch off the stove.
- Now add the sugar and mix well.
- If you don’t want the sugar taste, allow it to cool and add the buttermilk to it. (In this case avoid adding milk initially).
- If you want to have this porridge regularly, then increase the quantity of all the millets proportionately and dry roast it and grind it in the rice mill and store the powder in an air tight container.
- You can use this millet powder one or two spoons for preparation of Porridge daily use.
Benefits:
- Small grains (millets) are easily digestible.
- Millets are gluten free grains.
- Millets are rich in Fibre, Calcium and Protein.
- It aids in maintaining the cholesterol level and the glucose level normal in the blood.
- It is a healthy nutritious rich food and apt alternate for rice.
- Be cautious: People with thyroid health ailments can better avoid adding more millets in their regular diet.
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Mrs. Lavanya Sampath
