This Locavore Millet Bowl— a refreshing, vibrant salad highlighting proso, kodo, foxtail, and little millet— is an ode to fresh, seasonal produce that makes for a nutrient packed lunch or dinner, created by ChefTZac.
Traditionally made with ragi, mudde is a soft, steamed dough shaped into balls. Owing to its sticky consistency, it is swallowed without chewing, and calls for a soupy accompaniment. Here, it is served with a nandu (crab) rasam.
Pithas are a festive delicacy in Odisha—a kind of pancake usually made with rice, and stuffed with fillings like jaggery, lentils, and grated coconut, just to name a few. It is a versatile food, lending itself to different styles of preparation (steamed, fried, pan roasted), different shapes and sizes, and different fillings. Here, the pitha is made using foxtail millet flour, stuffed with mutton, and slow-cooked in banana leaves to create a hearty lunch.
Ganji Annam is a rice porridge from Andhra Pradesh that is traditionally made by fermenting cooked rice overnight, with additions like yoghurt, carom seeds, and slit green chillies. Here, the rice is substituted with foxtail millet to make a filling breakfast that is as easy on the stomach and it is comforting.
A filling Bengali breakfast, these fluffy, savoury, pancake-esque snacks replace wheat flour with foxtail flour, making for a lighter, and more nourishing dish
In this rustic biryani recipe that can be made at home, a hollow bamboo is used for creating a uniquely flavoured dish; reminiscent of the charcoal ovens and sand pits traditionally used to cook the rice. Here, the rice is replaced with foxtail millet to create a delicious, gluten free version of this smoky delicacy.
With the United Nations declaring 2023 as the International Year of Millets (IYOM), and the growing attempts to revive this ancient Indian grain, do you ever wonder where it disappeared to in the first place? Arathi Menon helps us understand why millets vanished from our diets, and the value of bringing it back.