Pearl Millet Porridge/Kambu Koozh/Bajra

Benefits of pearl millet/kambu/bajra:

Reduces Heat, Kambu mixed with yogurt and some salt cools the body immediately and gives instant energy, High in protein, Keeps the body hydrated, Energises body, Prevents heart disease, Reduces acidity, Rich in calcium and iron, Rich in fibre, Rich in all amino acids, The whole grain supports weight loss, The grain is easily digestible and has the lowest probability of causing allergic reactions, Being rich in fiber content, kambu/pearl millet works very well in diabetes, Bajra / pearl millet/ kambu contains nearly 3.8 times minerals and nearly 6.5 times fiber and nearly 24 times iron than rice, Pearl millet contains nearly 5.2 times fiber and nearly 3 times Iron than wheat, pearl millet contains the maximum amount of iron content among the millets.

Ingredients:

Pearl millet – 1 cup

Cooked rice – ½ cup soaked overnight

Salt – as per taste

Water – 4 cups

Sour curd – as per your wish / ½ cup

Shallot – 5

Green chilli – 2

Preparation:

Clean and wash pearl millet/kambu without any dust/sand particles.

Soak in water at-least for 2 hours.

Add it in mixer jar and grind into liquid consistency. In a bowl add pearl millet paste, salt mix it well and rest it for 30 mins.

Heat a wide vessel add 4 cups of water, let it boil well.

Then pour the pearl millet/kambu paste into it and keep stirring continuously so that it won’t form lumps.

Once it reached a boiling point, put it in slow flame, add soaked boiled rice and mix it, let it cook for 20 mins or until it cooked well.

Transfer it into a bowl and serve it along with raw shallots, finely chopped green chillies and curd.

Have it with pickle or dry fish fry for added taste.

cooked rice

Mochai Payaru Gravy / Field Beans Gravy ver 2

Field beans seeds contain 22% protein, 2% fat, 61% carbohydrate (includes 5% fiber) as well as adequate levels of all vitamins and minerals.

Ingredients:

Dry mochai payaru / field beans – 1 cup / 200gm

Tomato – 1 or 2

Salt – as per taste

Garlic – 5

Chilli powder / sambar powder – 2 tblspn

Tamarind water - ½ small cup or as per taste.

To grind masala paste:

Coconut pieces – ½ cup

Cumin seeds – 1 spn

Garlic – 1 piece

Shallots / small onion – 50 gm

Preparation:

Soak mochai payaru/field beans over night, then wash and add in cooker, add water till beans cover . Cook it for 1 whistle, then slow the flame and cook for 15 mins.

Heat oil add chopped shallots, and garlic sauté well. Then add tomato pieces, add and salt cook till tomatoes smash well.

Grind coconut, cumin, garlic first, then roast oions and grind it into fine paste.

Add chilli or sambar powder, tamarind water in, mix it well.

Then add mochai payaru / field beans into the gravy , add required water .boil it for 1 min close the lid and cook for 1 whistle in full flame and 2 mins in slow flame.

Open and serve it with hot rice.

Mochai Payaru Gravy / Field Beans Gravy ver 1

Field beans seeds contain 22% protein, 2% fat, 61% carbohydrate (includes 5% fiber) as well as adequate levels of all vitamins and minerals. 

Ingredients:

Dry mochai payaru / field beans – 1 cup / 200gm

Tomato – 1 or 2

Salt – as per taste

Garlic – 5

Brinjal – 5

Drumstick – 1 whole cut into small

Chilli powder / sambar powder – 2 tblspn

Turmeric powder – ½ spn

Tamarind water - ½ small cup or as per taste.

To grind masala paste:

Coconut pieces – ½ cup

Cumin seeds – 1 spn

Garlic – 1 piece

Shallots / small onion – 50 gm

To temper:

Oil – 50 ml 

Fenugreek seeds – ½ t-spn

Mustard seeds – 1 t-spn 

Curry leaves – few

Shallots / small onion – 50 gm

Preparation:

Soak mochai payaru/field beans over night, then wash and add in cooker, add water till beans cover . Cook it for 1 whistle, then slow the flame and cook for 15 mins.

Add brinjal, garlic, drumstick, tomato pieces, add turmeric powder and salt close the lid and cook it for 1 whistle.

Open and Grind coconut,cumin,garlic first, then roast oions and grind it into fine paste

 add the masala paste, chilli or sambar powder, tamarind water in, mix it well and add ½ glass of water, cook for 7 mins stir occasionally.

Then temper it, heat oil add mustard seeds, fenugreek seeds, curry leaves onion sauté well add it in gravy, mix. Serve it with hot rice.

POTATO MASALA WITH PUFFED PURI / ALOO MASALA WITH PURI

Ingredients:

1. Boiled potato- 3
2. Sliced onion- 2
3. Green chilli sliced- 2 or 3
4. Salt- as per taste
5. Turmeric powder- ½ spoons
6. Oil-5 table spoon
7. Oil – for deep frying
8. Wheat flour-2 cups
9. Sooji- 1 spoon
10. Curry leaves- few
11. Mustard seeds- ½ spoon
12. Soaked channa dhal- 1 spoon 

Preparation:

Puri:

• In a bowl add wheat flour, salt, sooji mix all together.
• Add little water and knead well, make soft and thick tight dough
• Don’t add too much of water while kneading. Rest it for 10 mins,
• Then take small balls of wheat dough then roll and spread flat, puri should be little thick so don’t spread it too wide and flat.
• Then heat a pan add oil; deep fry the puri one by one.

Potato masala:

• Heat oil in a wide pan
• Add mustard seeds let it crack then add channa dhal sauté for 5 secs, then add green chilies, onion, curry leaves one by one sauté well till onion becomes transparent .
• Then add salt and turmeric powder mix it for a sec.
• Add potato in and mash it here and there, mix well and pour required water not too much.
• Mix all and let it boil for 3 mins, stir often. serve with puri, chapathi, roti.