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Millet - A Healthy Alternative to Rice

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There are about 12 kinds of millets sold here in our nearby market in

Osaka.

 

These two photos are the commonly known varieties, although I do not

know their names.

 

http://www.pyroenergen.com/articles08/images/millet.jpg

http://www.pyroenergen.com/articles08/images/millet2.jpg

 

Below two photos are the imported varieties from Southeast Asian

countries.

 

http://www.pyroenergen.com/articles08/images/millet3.jpg

http://www.pyroenergen.com/articles08/images/millet4.jpg

 

Although millet is often considered a bird feed, it is generally used

as human food. Millets are packed full of nutrients. It comes in

various shapes and colors, but it's commonly available as pearled and

hulled in nearby stores.

 

Millet contains various mineral nutrients such as manganese,

tryptophan, magnesium, and phosphorus, with high calories. A cup of

cooked millet provides 26.4% of the daily value for magnesium and 24%

daily value for phosphorus.

 

1. Like all other grains, rinse millet thoroughly under running water.

2. Add 1 part of millet to 2½ parts boiling water. You can add broth

to taste.

3. When the water is absorbed, turn down the heat, cover and simmer

for about 30 minutes.

4. When it's finished, you'll get soft and light grains like rice.

 

If you want the millet to be creamier, stir it frequently, and add a

little extra liquid during cooking, and you'll get a dish that

resembles rice porridge or mashed potatoes. You can add any flavor to

it.

 

For a crispy texture, you can roast the millet grain before boiling.

You can add some vegetables, chicken, and any other beans to have

highly acceptable taste and aroma.

 

Millet makes a delicious alternative to rice, potatoes, and oats.

 

You can grind the millet and mix it with baking powder for your

breakfast bread. You can also use the grinded millet together with

some seasoned-flavored fruits to make cake.

 

Millet is more than any alternative to the common grains because of

its valuable nutrients.

 

Millet is known to protect your heart by lowering cholesterol

contents in the blood. Millet is also recommended for asthma and

migraine patients. Millet is known as brain rejuvenator in Japan.

 

Is it true that people who ate millet during the World War II are

more talented? This is a comparison with today's young generation

eating lots of junk foods. Someone told us that a millet diet can

prevent gallstone as well as breast cancer and some cancerous

diseases. Now isn't that good news?

 

 

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I love millet - I sometimes make a breakfast porridge by simmering the

millet meal in apple juice and adding grated apple to the mix then serving

with homey and cream and I also add it to my pastry and it comes out nice &

crunchy

 

Jane

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Millet as in Raagi ? I can never myself eating Raagi with apple juice or apple.

I may throw up. But hey thats me.

Give me Idli or dosa with coconut chutney and I will be eat if there is no

tomorrow. There are so many healthy variation in Dosa. For eg Methi ( Fenugreek

) is added sometimes while grinding Dosa batter and it gives a unique taste. Of

course polished rice can be bad but people living in big cities have no choice.

 

You know here in the US when I see people eating their breakfast I pity them.

They add cold ultra-pasteurized homogenized chemical milk to a crunchy processed

grain like thing which is known as cereal. The box on the cereal proudly says

" may significantly reduce heart disease " . But if you look at the ingredients

they use , I can't even pronounce the names of the chemicals they use

 

-Pradeep

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I love millet - I sometimes make a breakfast porridge by simmering the millet

meal in apple juice and adding grated apple to the mix then serving with homey

and cream

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> Millet as in Raagi ? I can never myself eating Raagi with apple juice or

apple. I may throw up.

 

Take raagi (called Raagi Hurihittu) and add milk and a couple of spoons

of raw honey to suit your taste, then all the dry fruits you can lay

hands on - I use raisins, cashews, goji berries, pumpkin seeds, walnuts

and so on and mix them up. Preferably knead them with your hands; tastes

better. I like the mix to be moist; the result is a delicious, healthy

breakfast meal.

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Yes this sounds good. Actually my 8 month daughter is being fed Raagi ( its

called Raagi sari in Kannada ) and she just loves it more than any vegetable or

fruit. Raagi goes through a whole lot of transformation like removing the husk,

soaking and drying. I don't know all the details. My sister-in-law who still

lives in a village does it and sends it to us. All we do is add it to boiling

water and make it a smooth paste. My wife adds a little ghee to it as well.

 

We eat Raagi Rotti and occasionally Raagi Mudde ( balls ) with chutney/sambhar.

 

Please allow me to digress.

 

I just can't stand those processed cereals in attractive boxes which boasts of

all kinds of Vitamins. minerals , Iron and what not

Average Indian consumer is taken for a ride because of crass market and

advertising. When I was growing up I was in the good hands of my Grandmother

who had good knowledge of Ayurveda. She lived for 95 years without any major

complication. She never swallowed any vitamin pill or took any supplements. An

excellent cook always voluntarily cooking for as many.

 

I think there is a major problem today in India with advertising.

1)There is one brand of biscuits which advertises " Eat healthy , think better " .

Its a British based company. Who in the world qualified biscuits as a healthy

snack ?

2) A major noodles brand says eating their noodles is equivalent to eating 5

chapathis !!

3) A major American tootpaste ad says its tootpaste is full of Calcium and

minerals. Wow as if rubbing calcium on the teeth makes it whiter and stronger.

 

Such is the sorry state of advertising in India. The problem is Indian

politicians are enslaved by the Capitalistic West and they don't have the guts

to oppose.

 

 

More later on this subject

 

-Pradeep

 

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Take raagi (called Raagi Hurihittu) and add milk and a couple of spoons

 

of raw honey to suit your taste, then all the dry fruits you can lay

 

hands on

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Funny you should say that about the breakfast cereals in attractive packs -

reminds me of a chiropractor I went to years ago who used to say there was

more nutrition in the packet itself than in the cereal!

 

Jane

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> I just can't stand those processed cereals in attractive boxes which

> boasts of all kinds of Vitamins. minerals , Iron and what not

> Average Indian consumer is taken for a ride because of crass market and

> advertising.

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Hi Pradeep,

 

I am sorry to say that all over the world it is the same We have to be wise

conumers and choose what we eat. Marketing and Advertising for anything taking

people for a ride!! often children are targets for all the junk food. Parents

fall for that and buy that for their children.

 

We just have to be more aware thats all.

 

thanks and regards,

Sujatha

 

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Yes this sounds good. Actually my 8 month daughter is being fed Raagi ( its

called Raagi sari in Kannada ) and she just loves it more than any vegetable or

fruit.