How can millets be used in the daily diet?

How can millets be used in the daily diet?

One of the most common ways to eat millets is as breakfast cereal or porridge.

·         Replace rice or wheat with millets in preparations such as:

a.       Sambar rice

b.      Curd rice

c.       Upma

d.      Kozhukattai

e.       Pongal

f.       Idli

g.      Dosai

h.      Adai

·         Snacks such as murukku, thattai and seedai and sweets such as ladoo can be made from ragi.

·         Thinai is best suited for making adhirasam. It can also be used to make halwa, ven pongal, sweet pongal or curd rice.

·         For pulav or biriyani, go for parboiled samai, kudthiravali or varagu.