Cooking Millets

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Cooking millets is as easy as cooking rice. The below steps can be used for Kodo millet, Little millet, Foxtail Millet, Barnyard Millet and Browntop Millet.

1. Pressure Cooker Method: (1:2 – 2 whistles)
   • Wash the millet. (Use a sieve to drain the water)
   • For 1 measure of millet add 2 measures of water in a pressure cooker.
   • Close the lid and cook in Medium-Large flame.
   • After the first whistle, reduce the flame.
   • After the second whistle, take it off the flame.
   • DO NOT release the steam.
   • Leave it aside for about 10 minutes. Let the millet cook in its own steam.
   • When the cooker has cooled and the steam is gone, remove the lid.
     • DO NOT mix using ladle/spoon when the millet is hot. It will make it mushy/lumpy.
     • Transfer the cooked millet rice to a plate and have it hot with Dal/Sambar.
     • Transfer the cooked millet rice to a plate and cool it, if you are preparing any other dish.
   • As the cooked millet cools, it will become more firm. It will become harder as the time passes (more than 2-3 hours).

2. Open vessel cooking (1:2 – 30 minutes soaking)

• Wash Millet (Use a sieve to drain the water)
• Soak 1 measure of millet in 2 measures of water for 30 minutes.
• Cook in large-medium flame with a lid.
• When the water starts to boil, reduce the flame.
• When water evaporates (about 10 minutes), take it off the flame and firmly close the lid.
• Leave it aside for 5 mins for it to cool.
  • DO NOT mix using ladle/spoon when the millet is hot. It will make it mushy/lumpy.
  • Transfer the cooked millet rice to a plate and have it hot with Dal/Sambar.
  • Transfer the cooked millet rice to a plate and cool it, if you are preparing any other dish.
  • As the cooked millet cools, it will become more firm. It will become harder as the time passes (more than 2-3 hours).

3. Millet can also be cooked in electric rice cooker with the same ratio of millet & water as described above.

Note: Based on the quantity of millet, size of the cooker/vessel, and flame/burner size; cooking time and water will vary slightly. Within 3 attempts, you can master cooking millet rice.