I got a packet of kodo milletflour and decided to try a small portion. Usually we cannot make good Sevai using just plain flour, we get special processed Idiappam flour just to prepare these string hoppers at home by cutting our prep time greatly
HOW TO COOK THINAI/ FOXTAILMILLET. Its always confusing about the water ratio for different types of millet like Varagu arisi (Kodo millet), Samai (Little millet), Kuthiraivali (Barnyard millet), Thinai rice (Foxtailmillet) and Kambu (Pearl millet)
FoxtailMillet (Hindi. Thinai. Millets and its benefits has been discussed extensively in my blog , while doing many recipes, so kindly check the recipes for more
Some Benefits and facts of Millets. Millet's are one of the oldest and traditional foods known to humans and possibly the first cereal grain to be used for domestic purposes
add millets, bring to a rolling boil, then reduce to low. In a mixing bowl, combine the cooked millet, mashed potatoes, egg, carrot, cilantro, and all the powders
Foxtailmillet/ Thinai is very popular in east asia and especially in south India people have started using millets more and are spreading awareness on it about how healthy they are
As i had already shared varieties of appam recipes like appam recipe using wheat flour,instant nei appam and appam-deep fried version,i wanted to try an appam using millet as we are fond of eating millets nowadays
Mixed MilletsFlour/SathuMaavu. Rajgira (Amaranth Flour) Halwa. Foxtailmillet also known as Thinai in Tamil, Kangni in Hindi/Punjabi, Korra in Telugu, Navane in Kannada, Thina in Malayalam, Kang in Marathi, Kang in Gujarati, Kaon in Bengali and Kanghu in Oriya
Mixed MilletsFlour/SathuMaavu. Rajgira (Amaranth Flour) Halwa. If you are starting with millet idli-dosa then it's good to add raw rice or idli rice along and after you get used to it you can skip the rice totally this is how I do normally, we can cook this idli-dosa with out using idli/raw rice too and it does comes out wonderful so go ahead and make this idli gluten-free if you wish too
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