Recipe: Tasty Saamai (little millet) Pongal

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Saamai (little millet) Pongal. A healthy variation of Mala Mami's finger-licking good pongal - a one-pot recipe with little millets/ saamai, broken wheat and moong dal/black gram for a. Little Millet / Saamai Rice pongal made with tempering Pepper, Jeera in addition with dal makes this delicious. Yes of course Millets are believed to be good for diabetic patients and it is non glutinous.

Saamai (little millet) Pongal

Of the millets my parents gave me, samai (Little millet in English, Kutki in Hindi, Sama in telugu, Same in Kannada, Chama in Malayalam) is the last one to try. One day I was craving to have pongal, but wanted to try with millets. So tried my hands with samai. You can have Saamai (little millet) Pongal using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Saamai (little millet) Pongal

  1. It's 3/4 cup of saamai.
  2. Prepare 1/2 cup of moong dal.
  3. You need 4 1/4 cup of water.
  4. You need 1 tsp of pepper.
  5. It's 2 of green chilly.
  6. You need 1 tsp of cumin seeds.
  7. You need 2 tbsp of ghee.
  8. Prepare 1 pinch of asafoetida.
  9. Prepare of Salt as required.

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Saamai (little millet) Pongal step by step

  1. Wash saamai and moong dal together..
  2. Add water and required salt. Pressure cook it for 3 whistles..
  3. To Temper: Heat a small pan with ghee, add cashews and fry until golden brown. Keep aside. In the same pan, add cumin seeds, pepper, asafoetida, green chilly. Let it splutter. Pour this to cooked Pongal and stir it..
  4. Serve with coconut chutney and sambar..

Such a nutritional rich millet should be included frequently in our diet. This time, I have used this Saamai to make a very tasty payasam. This payasam is same as our conventional Paal Payasam. Samai arisi sadam (little millet rice) is the healthy alternative for the regular rice as a meal. Samai millet tastes very similar to regular rice along with some curry but it is lot more nutritious and You can make samai upma, lemon samai, coconut samai, curd samai, samai pongal, samai payasam etc.