Foxtail Millet Pongal
Foxtail Millet Pongal

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, foxtail millet pongal. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Foxtail Millet Pongal is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Foxtail Millet Pongal is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have foxtail millet pongal using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Foxtail Millet Pongal:
  1. Make ready 1 cup foxtail millet
  2. Make ready 1/2 cup yellow moong daal/split mung beans
  3. Make ready to taste Salt
  4. Prepare 1 Tb black pepper corns
  5. Make ready 1/2 inch ginger deskined
  6. Get Handful curry leaves
  7. Take 4-5 Tb ghee /clarified butter
  8. Make ready 4-5 cashews
  9. Make ready 1 pinch asafoetida powder
  10. Prepare 1 Tb cumin seeds
  11. Take Water as needed to soak and cook
Steps to make Foxtail Millet Pongal:
  1. Wash and soak thinai (millet) and moong dal for 10 mins, meanwhile grind ginger, cumin seeds and pepper corn to coarse powder, just run mixer for less than 10 secs to get coarse mixture.
  2. Heat 3 Tb ghee in a pressure cook add moong dal and saute for minute on medium flame, add the Millet next and saute for a minute too.
  3. Add whole peppercorns,salt, about 2 cups of water. mix well and pressure cook 4 whistles in medium flame.
  4. Once pongal gets cooked and while we wait for cooker to release pressure, in a small tadka pan heat 1 Tb ghee.
  5. Add asafoetida, curry leaves, ginger-cumin-pepper mixture we prepared and saute until they start to become brown.take off heat and add to the Pongal and mix well
  6. Now sauté the cashews using 1 Tb ghee and until they get golden brown
  7. Garnish the Pongal with cashews and serve hot with sambar and chutney of your choice

So that is going to wrap this up with this exceptional food foxtail millet pongal recipe. Thank you very much for reading. I’m sure that you will make this at home. There’s gonna be more interesting food at home recipes coming up. Remember to bookmark this page on your browser, and share it to your family, colleague and friends. Thank you for reading. Go on get cooking!