Recipe: Delicious Foxtail Millet Pongal

Foxtail Millet Pongal.

You can cook Foxtail Millet Pongal using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Foxtail Millet Pongal

1. It's 1 cup of foxtail millet.
2. You need 1/2 cup of yellow moong daal/split mung beans.
3. Prepare to taste of Salt.
4. It's 1 Tb of black pepper corns.
5. It's 1/2 inch of ginger deskined.
6. Prepare Handful of curry leaves.
7. It's 4-5 Tb of ghee /clarified butter.
8. Prepare 4-5 of cashews.
9. Prepare 1 pinch of asafoetida powder.
10. You need 1 Tb of cumin seeds.
11. It's of Water as needed to soak and cook.

Foxtail Millet Pongal step by step

1. Wash and soak thinai (millet) and moong dal for 10 mins, meanwhile grind ginger, cumin seeds and pepper corn to coarse powder, just run mixer for less than 10 secs to get coarse mixture..
2. Heat 3 Tb ghee in a pressure cook add moong dal and saute for minute on medium flame, add the Millet next and saute for a minute too..
3. Add whole peppercorns,salt, about 2 cups of water. mix well and pressure cook 4 whistles in medium flame..
4. Once pongal gets cooked and while we wait for cooker to release pressure, in a small tadka pan heat 1 Tb ghee..
5. Add asafoetida, curry leaves, ginger-cumin-pepper mixture we prepared and saute until they start to become brown.take off heat and add to the Pongal and mix well.
6. Now sauté the cashews using 1 Tb ghee and until they get golden brown.
7. Garnish the Pongal with cashews and serve hot with sambar and chutney of your choice.