Prep Time: 02 Hours 20 minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes

Servings: 2 Servings

How about giving the humble millet a snazzy make-over? A healthy, flavorful and wholesome way to incorporate millet into our diet. It could double as a kid-friendly, lunch box idea. Filled with spiced coconut and served with luscious green chutney and shredded vegetables, makes it the ideal platter for a balanced meal.

Ingredients

• Foxtail millet/ Barnyard Millet/ Little Millet: ½ cup
• Boiled potato: 2 nos medium sized
• Green chillies: 3 tbsp (finely chopped)
• Rock salt: to taste
• Black pepper: 1 tbsp
• Cloves: 4 nos
• Cardamom: 1 pod
• Coconut: ½ cup
• Ginger: 1 tbsp (grated)
• Coriander leaves: 2 tbsp (finely chopped)
• Onion: 1 medium sized (finely chopped)
• Raisins: 1 tbsp
• Poppy seeds/Khus khus: 1 tbsp

Method

• Soak millet for a couple of hours.
• Wash and drain and cook until soft in 1.5 cups of water.
• Coarsely grind cloves, pepper and cardamom with a mortar and pestle.
• Grate the boiled potatoes and mix with boiled millet, 1 tablespoon of green chillies, salt and the ground spices.
• Use hands to knead together into a pliable dough. Divide the mixture into 8 equal parts.
• To make the stuffing, blend together grated coconut, remaining green chillies, grated ginger in a mixie without adding water.
• Transfer to a bowl and mix into it, chopped coriander leaves, chopped onions, raisins, rock salt and poppy seeds.

• Shape the millet mixture to your desired shape and place a tablespoon of the coconut mixture in it and seal it. You can wet your palms to help shape the cutlets.
• Heat a tawa and cook on both sides until brown and crisp.
• Serve with your favorite dips/ chutneys on a bed of shredded vegetables.

Wellcure Tip:

• Always soak millet before cooking.
• Millets when cooked swell up and yield a big quantity.
• You could use your choice of spices to make your own version.

Eating Guide:

• Food group: Millet
• 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.
• They can easily be combined with coconut and vegetables.
• Best as lunch box idea for kids.

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