Prep Time: 02 Hours

Cook Time: 15 minutes

Servings: 1 Serving

Flavourful methi rice in its millet avatar. Simple, easy, wholesome and healthy.

It's a great combination or fresh greens and millets.

Ingredients

• Kodo millet: ¼ cup
• Bayleaf: 1no
• Cloves: 1 no
• Cardamom: 1no
• Cinnamon: ½ inch piece
• Methi leaves: ½ cup (chopped)
• Tomato: 2 tbsp (chopped)
• Green chili: 1-2 nos (chopped)
• Ginger: 1inch (grated)
• Garlic: 2 cloves (chopped)
• Turmeric powder: ½ tsp
• Rock salt: to taste
• Fresh coconut: 2 tbsp (grated)

Method

• Soak kodo millet for 2 hours.
• Cook it in water, 3 times the measure of millets, bay leaf, cardamom, cinnamon, clove and a little salt.
• While the millet is cooking, in a pan dry roast chopped garlic and green chili for 3 minutes.
• Add chopped methi leaves and sauté for a couple of minutes.
• Add chopped tomatoes, turmeric powder, salt, and grated ginger and sauté until tomatoes are cooked mushy.
• Once millets are cooked, fluff it up with a fork and spread it on a plate to cool. Remove the whole spices added while cooking.
• Mix the pan ingredients with the cooked millets and taste to check for salt.
• Stir in grated coconut and allow to rest for 10 minutes before serving.
• Serve with cashew-methi-curry-matar-methi-malai- and  curd-chutney.

Wellcure Tip:

• You could substitute Kodo millet with little millet/foxtail millet/barnyard millet.

Eating Guide:

• Food group: Millets
• Millets are gluten-free, rich in fibre and high in nutritional value. They are a good option to add variety to your meals or when you want to go grain-free.
• It is a fair source of protein, which is highly digestible and is an excellent source of dietary fiber with good amounts of soluble and insoluble fractions
• Millets are easily digestible.

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