Desserts and Mithai - Millet Revival Project

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Desserts and Mithai

Browntop Millet Lonavala Fudge

Ankita Jain

The Lonavla fudge is a gooey chocolate treat that commuters along the Pune-Mumbai route love deeply. Ankita’s version features browntop millet flour, condensed milk, cocoa powder, and walnuts, making for a decadent dessert.

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Foxtail Millet Modaks

Sayani Sengupta

A traditional sweet offered to Lord Ganesha during Ganesh Chaturthi, this recipe replaces the typical rice flour dough with foxtail millet flour.

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Little Millet Mocha Magic Pudding

Tsarina Abrao Vacha

Try this gooey, coffee-flavoured pudding, topped with crunchy caramel jowar corn, for an easy yet magical millet dessert.

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Kodo Millet and Mango Pancakes

Sharada Sriram

Mangoes, coconut milk, and kodo millet flour come together to create a perfectly flavoured summer breakfast in these fluffy pancakes.

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Proso Phirni

Ankita Jain and Shreya Jain

A festive sweet made with milk and jaggery, this aromatic phirni replaces ground rice with proso millet, but retains the flavour and richness of this classic dessert.

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Roasted Sama Chal aur Khas Khas ki Kheer

Ankita Jain and Sayani Sengupta

This kheer, made using barnyard millet and poppy seeds, elevates the flavours we know and love with a unique chewy bite and deep nuttiness.

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Barnyard Millet Slice Cake

Ankita Jain

Tea cakes bring a gorgeous brightness to the evening snack. This recipe uses barnyard millet, and is just the right amount of sweet and indulgent.

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Barnyard and Chocochip Cookie

Ankita Jain

Inspired by her favourite oatmeal raisin cookie, Ankita, a volunteer chef from the Millet Cooking Lab, crafted the recipe for these crumbly barnyard and choc chip cookies, made comforting with notes of maple syrup and cinnamon.

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Jowar ka Meetha

Bhairav Singh

An indulgent dessert that is traditionally made in Rajasthan using broken wheat or lapsi, the Jowar ka Meetha is a spin on the classic that features whole jowar pearls cooked with dark jaggery and ghee. Chef Bhairav Singh of Native Bombay tells us how to make this sweet that is tasty as well as gut-friendly.

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Ragi Laddoo

Odisha Millets Mission

This recipe has been documented for The Locavore by Shabnam Afrien of Odisha Millets Mission (OMM). A flagship programme of the government of Odisha, OMM was launched in 2017 to improve the nutrition of tribal communities in Odisha through revival of millets in farming and their diets.

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