As part of substituting rice in recipes with millets, this is one of my experiments which was a huge success. I used saamai / little millet instead of rice in this savoury pongal/ ven pongal as we call it in Tamil. Ven pongal is usually made with rice and moong…
When I posted the puttu maavu made with cholam/ jowar, I also made puttu out of it. As I told you before, I am trying to incorporate millets in my day to day cooking and this recipe is one in which I substituted rice flour with jowar flour. Usually I…
After a long gap, I am back in the group Bread Bakers.This month’s challenge was quite interesting. Have you heard of ancient grains. The challenge is to make a bread with ancient grains. When I checked for ancient grains, I understood that it was all gluten free grains like Quinoa,…
Coming to the third day of healthy/ diet recipes, I made ammini kozhukattai with jowar/ cholam. As I mentioned yesterday, we get jowar rice, which makes it very easy to incorporate in recipes. You can easily substitute rice with this jowar rice and no one would be able to tell…
After a long gap, I am here with another Cooking Basics post. I love to make variety of puttu and instead of buying puttu flour, I make it at home. It is the only way you can get perfectly delicious puttu. My mum used to make all types of flour…
For the second day of healthy diet recipes, I am here with one more millet dish. The batter I am going to post is what I make always and it is always available in my fridge. I don’t prepare the normal dosa batter with rice. Millets have become part of…
This year I have a resolution which I want to keep. I need to take part in Blogging Marathon all the 12 months. I don’t know whether I can keep up that resolution but I will try hard. Last year I have been so irregular in taking part and I…
I have reduced consumption of rice in our house. When ever I make dosas, idlis or appam, I try to incorporate millets in it. Jowar dosai has become our daily breakfast. If at all I make dosa with rice, my daughter begs me to make it with jowar / cholam.…
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As I mentioned earlier, I have been experimenting with different types of dosas with flours to avoid rice. This is one of the dosa which my family likes very much. Using jowar instead of rice increases the nutrition in dosas. To know more about the nutritional facts of jowar read…