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Cooking Millets – Master The Art of Nutritious Meals!
Unlock the secrets of cooking millets and create delicious, nutritious meals at home! Read on to master the art of cooking gluten-free rice substitutes.
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Jowar Risotto Recipe – Healthy One-Pot Meal
Post Views: 949 Risotto is a traditional Italian rice dish cooked with broth derived from meat, fish or vegetable. Here is a healthy Indian twist to the risotto by replacing arborio rice with jowar or sorghum and adding a variety of vegetables making it an extremely delicious and nutritious dish. This Jowar Risotto is a one-pot meal that is easy to make and wholesome for all to relish and enjoy. Why Jowar instead of rice? Check the health benefits of Jowar/Sorghum here. Serving Size: 4 Ingredients for Jowar Risotto: 120 grams Jowar2 teaspoon Olive oil1 teaspoon Butter1 cup chopped Bell peppers (green, yellow, red)1 cup Brocolli5-6 Baby corn1/2 cup Carrots100 ml Milk ( low-fat or plant-based)1-2 teaspoons Cheese (optional)Salt (as per taste)7-8…
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Vegetable Millet Appam Recipe
Post Views: 688 Vegetable Millet Appam is an easy-to-make, delicious, and healthy recipe. I have used different types of Millet flours and lots of vegetables to make it healthy and tasty. It serves as a perfect breakfast recipe or as a quick evening snack when you are craving some warm good food. When you have unannounced guests at home and want to make something quick but healthy and of course delicious, this vegetable millet appam recipe can save your day. Millet Appam Recipe The ingredients used are basic and are easily available in your kitchen. You can also experiment with the ingredients as per your taste and liking. Ingredients: Spices…
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Pearl Millet (Bajra) Nutrition Facts – Everything You Need To Know
Post Views: 1,069 Pearl Millet or Bajra is a popular cereal in India and Africa. It is a good source of soluble and insoluble fibre, zinc, iron, magnesium, and dietary folate. Pearl millet has many health-benefiting properties due to its rich composition of minerals and proteins. As they contain high levels of both soluble and insoluble fibre, pearl millet helps to regulate blood sugar levels. Additionally, they’re a good source of zinc and magnesium, essential for healthy digestion. Finally, these grains are also a decent source of protein and dietary folate (a type of vitamin). So why not give them a try? What is Pearl Millet? The botanical name of pearl…
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Sorghum (Jowar): Health Benefits Explained
Post Views: 692 Sorghum, or Jowar, is the world’s fifth major cereal crop in terms of production after rice, wheat, maize, and barley. It is also known as Indian millet, durra, milo, great millet, shallu, etc. Sorghum originated in Africa, where it is a major food crop and has numerous varieties, including grain sorghums, broomcorn, etc. In West Africa, it is known as Guinea corn. In India, sorghum is known by many names like jowar, cholam, or jonna. The jowar grains are used mainly for food in India, while the stover after harvest of grains is used as nutritious fodder for animals. Sorghum is used worldwide in food applications, including…
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Introducing The Small ‘Big’ Grain
Post Views: 1,368 Millets are the ancient grains of India. They are small seeded nutrient-rich cereals cultivated and consumed for centuries in Asia and Africa. Millets were a part of our staple diet until the 1960s. However, after the Green Revolution, which emphasized wheat and rice, millets were dismissed as ‘coarse grains. Millets are back in demand because of their high nutritional value, environmentally friendly crops, and food security. As millets were the first crops known to humans, they are known by different names in different parts of the country. But unfortunately, most of us are not aware of the common names of millets. Let’s familiarise ourselves with the different…
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Millets – The Superfood of Our Ancestors
Post Views: 1,788 Food history, especially in India, will be incomplete without the mention of millets. Millet is not a single grain but a group of small-seeded annual grasses belonging to the Poaceae family. There is mention of millets in the Indian Sanskrit text Yajurveda’s verses- of foxtail millet (priyangava), proso millet (aanava), and Barnyard millet (shyaamaka). This indicates that millet culture and consumption have been prevalent since the Indian Bronze Age (3300 BC to 1200 BC). Until 50 years ago, millets were the major crops grown in India. But with the onset of the Green Revolution in the 1960s, the popularity of rice and wheat grew, and millets became…
