Recipe of Super Quick Homemade Foxtail Millet Pongal

Foxtail Millet Pongal.

it's me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I'm gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, foxtail millet pongal. It is one of my favorites. This time, I'm gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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

The ingredients needed to make Foxtail Millet Pongal:

1. Get 1 cup of foxtail millet.
2. Get 1/2 cup of yellow moong daal/split mung beans.
3. Take to taste of Salt.
4. Take 1 Tb of black pepper corns.
5. Prepare 1/2 inch of ginger deskined.
6. Get Handful of curry leaves.
7. Make ready 4-5 Tb of ghee /clarified butter.
8. Make ready 4-5 of cashews.
9. Make ready 1 pinch of asafoetida powder.
10. Prepare 1 Tb of cumin seeds.
11. Get of 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.

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