Name: Thinai Pongal Recipe | Foxtail Millet Pongal Recipe| Kangni Pongal Recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Ingredients: 3/4 cup Foxtail millet (Thinai (1 cup - 250 ml)); 1/4 cup Moong Dal; 1 tsp Whole black pepper; 1 tsp Cumin Seeds; 1 tsp Salt (Adjust to your taste); 5 Cashew Nuts; 1 fistful Curry Leaves; 1/4 tsp Asafoetida (Asafetida / Hing); 1 tsp Ginger (Grated); 2 tbsp Ghee (Clarified butter)

Healthy & Tasty Pongal!

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Thinai pongal is a pongal made using Thinai (Foxtail Millet) instead of conventional rice. Millets comes with its own health benefits and hence its recommended to add millet as part of our regular diet. Thinai Pongal is very tasty and simple dish which gives the dual benefit of health and taste.

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Total Time 30 minutes

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I have already given my another post the health benefits of Foxtail Millet. Foxtail millet helps control Blood sugar levels when consumed on regular. The millet produced a “significant fall (70%) in blood glucose. We need to include these healthy millets regularly in our diet. We can make wide variety of recipes with Thinai and here we are going to see how to make Thinai Pongal.

Foxtail millet pongal is a very simple and yummy dish. When we think of pongal the first thing comes to our mind is the ghee that is added along with the rice. Generally most of the diet/fitness specific persons and also diabetic patients and elders try to avoid pongal. But with Thinai (Foxtail millet) we can very well consume pongal. Instead of rice we can include thinai,Thinai pongal (Foxtail Millet Pongal) is made using the same procedure as the conventional pongal. So very simple, yet very healthy pongal. Instead of conventional pongal, try to make thinai pongal in your kitchen often. We can also make pongal using barnyard millet, pearl millet etc.

You can also try:

1. Thinai Adai

2. Thinai Pradaman

3. Thinai Laddu

4. Kudo Millet Sweet Pongal

5. Vegetable Oats Pongal

Thinai Pongal Recipe | Finger Millet Pongal Recipe| ,Kangni Pongal Recipe

Method:

Heat a pan, add moong dal and fry it till it becomes golden brown color. Take the roasted moong dal and thinai in a vessel. Rinse the thinai and moongdal in water and add 3.5 cups of water to the vessel. Add grated ginger, salt to the vessel and pressure cook it allow it for 5-6 whistles. Allow the pressure to release on its own and then mash the cooked thinai and dal

Heat ghee in a pan, add cumin seeds. When the cumin seeds starts to sputter, add whole black pepper and fry for some time. Add hing, cashews and curry leaves and fry till the cashews turn into golden brown color.