Tiffin Ideas to celebrate Millet Year 2023
We need tiffin meals to be quick to prepare and healthy as well. While we normally make upma, idlis, or parathas that are perfect for tiffin, giving them a millet twist will ensure that we celebrate the millet year in style.
Who knows, your tasty millet meals might inspire a few more toward a healthy lifestyle!
What are millets?
Millets are a nutritious, small-seeded grass variety that is easy to cook, and very healthy. Millets like Sorghum, Pearl Millet, and Ragi, Small Millet, Foxtail Millet, Barnyard Millet, and Kodo millet are popular in India and they can be easily included in our daily meals.
Millets are gaining popularity around the world as they are versatile gluten-free grains. It is a superfood because it has all the essential vitamins and minerals present in them and India is one of the top producers of millet in the world. To make the most of this Nutri-food that is practically available in our backyard, we have listed a few tiffin ideas.
Simple and delicious, healthy tiffin recipes using millet
1. Little Millet Stir Fry
Ingredients:
● ½ cup cooked little millet
● ½ cup chopped bell peppers
● ½ cup boiled peas
● 1 carrot chopped
● ½ Chopped French beans
● 1 cup boiled corn
● 1 onion, chopped
● 1 green chili
● 3-4 garlic minced
● Grated ginger
● 1 tbsp A2 ghee
● 2 teaspoons cumin powder
● 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
● 1 teaspoon coriander powder
● Salt to taste
● Lemon juice
● 3-4 pieces of paneer /tofu
● ½ spoon organic jaggery
●
Coriander
leaves
Method:
● Wash and soak the millet. Cook and keep it aside.
● Stir fry paneer/tofu.
● In a pan add some ghee and prepare tadka.
● Add garlic, ginger, and green chili and saute it well.
● Add the chopped vegetables, fried paneer/tofu, and masala.
● Add jaggery, salt, and little lemon juice.
● Mix well and let it cook.
●
Add cooked
little millet and enjoy it for office lunch.
2. Jowar
Idli Stir Fry:
Ingredients:
● Jowar Idli cooked using jowar idli mix
● 1 bell pepper chopped
● 1 carrot chopped
● 2 onions, chopped
● 1 green chili
● 2 spoons of ketchup
● 2 spoon ginger garlic paste
● 1 tbsp A2 ghee
● 1 spoon soya sauce
● 1 spoon of vinegar
● Salt to taste
● 1 cup diced / grated paneer /tofu
● ½ spoon organic jaggery
● Coriander leaves
● Grated coconut
● 1 cheese cube grated
Method:
1.
Make Jowar
idli using the jowar idli premix, let it cool, and cut them into small pieces.
2. In a pan heat ghee, add ginger garlic paste, veggies, paneer,
sauces, and vinegar.
3. Once the veggies are sauteed, add idli pieces and mix well.
4. Garnish with coriander, grated cheese, and grated coconut, and
enjoy delicious healthy idli fry.
Using the
same recipe you try ragi chili idli fry as well. To make ragi idli use ragi
idli mix. You can also fry the idli to
make it crispier.
You can mix and
match millet with various ingredients. With the right way of cooking, millets
can be turned into exciting fusion recipes. Making simple twists in regular recipes
can make the food more appealing and delicious too!
A few simple tricks to include millet in your meals and make tiffin times interesting.
1. Replace the wheat roti with ragi, and mix millet flour rotis.
2. You can carry idli sambhar, and replace traditional rice idli with jowar idli and ragi idli
3. Replace the evening junk snack with millet bars, jowar chivda
4. Replace rice with bajara, Kodo, or little millets porridge.
5. You can replace Rava upma with millet upma which is very delicious and filling.
6. Replace rice pulao with millet pulao, and mix vegetable millet tawa pulao.
7. Replace curd rice with a little millet curd tadka.
8. Try various recipes like lemon millet, millet noodles, millet pasta, millet chaat, millet bhel, etc.
9. Make millet roti wrap with a filling of veggies.
10. Millet khichdi is quick to make and is nutrients dense.
Make a resolution this New Year to include millet in
your daily meals and get healthy. Celebrate the
international year of millets with
healthy and delicious meals!
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