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    20 Millet Recipes + Millet Info and How to Cook it

    Published: Mar 5, 2018 · Modified: Sep 12, 2022 by Helene Dsouza

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    Millet Recipes - A collection of flavorful dishes with an important nutritious ancient grain.

    I believe the world should take a look at this grain, known as Millet!

    That's why I have put together some knowledge about what millet is, why you need to try this ancient grain, the types of millets, why Millet is significant and how to cook with millet.

    You will also find a rich diverse source of various millet recipes for breakfast, to prepare homemade bread, appetizers, dinner, and even desserts.

    This should get you going to explore the many faces of millet grains!

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    • 🥛 Pearl Millet flour Porridge
    • 🥞 Buttermilk Pancakes
    • 🥄 Basic Millet Porridge
    • 🍚 Foxtail Millet Upma
    • 🥟 Proso Millet and Green Gram Dosa
    • 🌿 Uttapams with Cilantro Coconut Chutney
    • 🍛 Millet Khichdi (Spiced Porridge)
    • 🥖 Millet and Buckwheat Bread
    • 🌮 Finger Millet Flat Bread
    • 🍞 Millet Sandwich Bread
    • 🌱 Sprouted Wheat Millet Sandwich Bread Recipe
    • 🥙 Pearl Millet Flat Bread
    • 🥪 Oatmeal Millet Bread
    • 🍿 How to Cook Tasty Gluten-Free Job’s Tears
    • 🌯 Barnyard Millet Fritters
    • 🥘 Cranberry Bean, Millet, and Bulgur Chili 
    • 🍔 Kidney Bean Millet Beet Burger
    • 🥣 Barnyard Millet and Fox Nuts Pudding
    • 🍐 Pears with Brown sugar, Bourbon, and Millet
    • 🍪 Finger Millet Poppy Seed Cookies
    • 📕 What is millet?
    • 🥣What types of millets exist?
    • 🌾 Why is millet such an important crop?
    • 🍲 How to cook millet?
    • 💭 FAQs
    • 💬 Comments

    I have put together a collection of +21 various millet recipe ideas.

    This includes mostly breakfast millet recipes, bread millet recipes and some millet appetizer, whole meals, and dessert.

    The recipes are made from scratch and call for several millet varieties.

    If you read only millet without an explanation for which millet variety has been used in the recipe, you can usually assume Pearl Millet, as it is the most commonly used Millet.

    The 20+ Millet Recipes have been carefully picked from various popular food blogs on the web and included only trustworthy recipes.

    To get to the full recipe to print and save, you can click on the title or the picture.

    🥛 Pearl Millet flour Porridge

    Rajasthani Bajra/Bajri Raabdi
    Rajasthani Bajra Raabdi - Bajra flour Porridge. This is an easy and fuss-free recipe, healthy thick gruel prepared with pearl millet flour, yogurt, and salt, that’s fermented overnight to make Raabdi.
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    Rajasthani Bajra/Bajri Raabdi
    Millet Recipes - Sustainable and Healthy Ancient Grain

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    🥞 Buttermilk Pancakes

    Gluten-free Buttermilk Pancakes
    Golden brown, moist and flavorful gluten-free buttermilk pancakes topped with butter and pure maple syrup are a favorite meal at our house.
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    Gluten-free Buttermilk Pancakes
    Millet Recipes - Sustainable and Healthy Ancient Grain

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    🥄 Basic Millet Porridge

    Millet Porridge: A Chinese Postpartum & Digestive Healer
    Millets are seen as a rarely eaten ancient grain in many modernized countries. In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), millet porridge is regarded as a healing food for postpartum and digestive health.
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    Millet Porridge: A Chinese Postpartum & Digestive Healer
    Millet Recipes - Sustainable and Healthy Ancient Grain

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    🍚 Foxtail Millet Upma

    Foxtail Millet Upma | Thinai Arisi Upma
    South Indian style upma made from Foxtail millet, vegetables, and spices. This wonderful one pot breakfast is perfect for busy mornings!
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    Foxtail Millet Upma | Thinai Arisi Upma
    Millet Recipes - Sustainable and Healthy Ancient Grain

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    🥟 Proso Millet and Green Gram Dosa

    Proso Millet and Green Gram Dosa / Idli
    Millet Dosa and Idli Recipe. Proso millet and husked split Green Gram is used here to make crispy Dosa or soft Idli! A two in one batter!
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    Proso Millet and Green Gram Dosa / Idli
    Millet Recipes - Sustainable and Healthy Ancient Grain

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    🌿 Uttapams with Cilantro Coconut Chutney

    Instant Pot Uttapams Savory Indian Pancakes
    Instant Pot Uttapams are savory Indian pancakes. There are easy to make. This recipe uses whole grains & lentils that we soak & ferment into a savory batter!
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    Instant Pot Uttapams Savory Indian Pancakes
    Millet Recipes - Sustainable and Healthy Ancient Grain

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    🍛 Millet Khichdi (Spiced Porridge)

    Millet Khichdi
    This millet khichdi made from pearl millet and foxtail millet tastes really delicious. Even if you are a rice eater like me, you won't miss the rice.
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    Millet Khichdi
    Millet Recipes - Sustainable and Healthy Ancient Grain

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    🥖 Millet and Buckwheat Bread

    Millet and Buckwheat Bread {Vegan + Gluten-Free}
    A foolproof gluten-free and vegan breakfast bread recipe made with millet, buckwheat groats, and psyllium husk.
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    Millet and Buckwheat Bread {Vegan + Gluten-Free}
    Millet Recipes - Sustainable and Healthy Ancient Grain

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    🌮 Finger Millet Flat Bread

    Finger Millet Flat Bread
    Vegan and gluten free coconut and veggie loaded finger millet flour flat bread
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    Millet Recipes - Sustainable and Healthy Ancient Grain

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    🍞 Millet Sandwich Bread

    Gluten Free Millet Sandwich Bread Recipe
    Gluten Free bread shouldn’t be a brick. This Millet Sandwich Bread is light, soft and squishy, holds up to a sandwich quite well, and has a great flavor.
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    Gluten Free Millet Sandwich Bread Recipe
    Millet Recipes - Sustainable and Healthy Ancient Grain

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    🌱 Sprouted Wheat Millet Sandwich Bread Recipe

    Vegan Sprouted Wheat Millet Sandwich Bread Recipe
    This Vegan Sprouted Wheat Bread Recipe makes a great sandwich bread. It has sprouted wheat and Sprouted Millet for a nutty flavor.
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    Vegan Sprouted Wheat Millet Sandwich Bread Recipe
    Millet Recipes - Sustainable and Healthy Ancient Grain

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    🥙 Pearl Millet Flat Bread

    Bajra na Rotla - Millet Flour Flatbreads
    Millet flour flat breads are a commonly served in all Rajasthan homes but also in the state of Gujarat where they are served with a spicy eggplant curry.
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    Bajra na Rotla - Millet Flour Flatbreads
    Millet Recipes - Sustainable and Healthy Ancient Grain

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    🥪 Oatmeal Millet Bread

    Oatmeal Millet Bread
    This Gluten-Free Oatmeal Millet Bread is a hearty, soft loaf of bread that can be used for everything from sandwiches to toast.
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    Oatmeal Millet Bread
    Millet Recipes - Sustainable and Healthy Ancient Grain

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    🍿 How to Cook Tasty Gluten-Free Job’s Tears

    How to Cook Job’s Tears
    Discovering How to Cook Tasty Gluten-Free Job’s Tears is going to be your best learned cooking skill. (Gluten-Free Ancient Grain)
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    How to Cook Job’s Tears
    Millet Recipes - Sustainable and Healthy Ancient Grain

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    🌯 Barnyard Millet Fritters

    Barnyard millet and potatoes
    Barnyard millet and potatoes combine to make these yummy fritters. Served as an appetizer or snack, these vadas are super easy to make!
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    Millet Recipes - Sustainable and Healthy Ancient Grain

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    🥘 Cranberry Bean, Millet, and Bulgur Chili 

    Vegan Instant Pot Cranberry Bean, Millet and Bulgur Chili
    This vegan Instant Pot Chili uses cranberry beans, millet, and bulgur to make it hearty. No one at your table will miss the meat and it’s a great base for chili cheese mac!
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    Vegan Instant Pot Cranberry Bean, Millet and Bulgur Chili
    Millet Recipes - Sustainable and Healthy Ancient Grain

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    🍔 Kidney Bean Millet Beet Burger

    Kidney Bean Millet Beet Burger
    Kidney Bean Millet Beet Burger. Veggie Burgers with Beet, Beans and Millet (or quinoa). Bake or pan fry. Moist flavorful Vegan Burger patties.
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    Kidney Bean Millet Beet Burger
    Millet Recipes - Sustainable and Healthy Ancient Grain

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    🥣 Barnyard Millet and Fox Nuts Pudding

    Barnyard Millet and Fox Nuts Pudding
    This deliciously creamy Moriyo Phool Makhana Kheer sweet thickened milk with Barnyard Millet and Fox Nuts) recipe is a sweet dish.
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    Barnyard Millet and Fox Nuts Pudding
    Millet Recipes - Sustainable and Healthy Ancient Grain

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    🍐 Pears with Brown sugar, Bourbon, and Millet

    Pears with Brown Sugar, Bourbon, and Millet
    Need to warm your soul on a chilly fall morning? This cozy, hearty, and healthy breakfast will put you in the right frame of mind to seize the day.
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    Pears with Brown Sugar, Bourbon, and Millet
    Millet Recipes - Sustainable and Healthy Ancient Grain

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    🍪 Finger Millet Poppy Seed Cookies

    Finger Millet Poppy Seed Cookies
    Healthy Finger Millet Cookies with poppy seeds. Comforting and relaxing as well.
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    Ragi Poppy Seed Cookies - healthier Fingermillet cookie recipe www.masalaherb.com

    📕 What is millet?

    Millets are a group of ancient small roundish grains, grown of a species of hot weather resistant cereal grasses.

    These different millet varieties are indigenous and mostly grow in arid to semi-arid areas in the world, as on the African continent, the Indian subcontinent, China and in South East Asia.

    Millet is an ancient grain because millet crops have been cultivated for more than 10,000 years in some parts of the world.

    🥣What types of millets exist?

    Millet varieties are usually split into two, with the major millet varieties (Pearl, Proso, Foxtail, Finger Millet) dominating the world and the so-called minor varieties, which are usually not produced en masse.

    Sorghum is sometimes called Great Millet, but it's actually not a millet variety, so I don't count sorghum here.

    Occasionally when you go to your ethnic neighborhood grocery store, you will see packets of millet grains with foreign names (frequently Indian).

    Those foreign names stand for various millet varieties of Hindi.

    I have added in brackets the Hindi names next to the English name.

    I don't have any millet pictures but you can see here, uploaded by the croptrust.org.

    • Pearl Millet/Cattail Millet/Green Millet (Bajra)
    • Proso Millet
    • Foxtail Millet (Thinai)
    • Finger Millet (Ragi)
    • Little Millet
    • Barnyard Millet
    • Kodo Millet (Varagu)
    • Job's Tears/Adlay Millet
    • Browntop Millet (Korle in Kannada lan.)

    Many of the minor millet grains are close to extinction.

    This is an alarming trend and a blow to grain diversity!

    The Genecrop bank in Svalbard is currently working on conserving only Finger and Pearl Millet.

    If you have some info regarding millet varieties and names, please share with us in the comment section below!

    🌾 Why is millet such an important crop?

    What makes all the millet varieties so interesting is the fact that these crops are high drought and heat resistance and have a short growing time in the most arid places in the world.

    That means food security in the world would not be such a big issue right now if millets were growing the way they did 60 years ago.

    See, I need to explain in short what I mean with that so that you get the whole picture why we have to promote and use millet more again.

    The current millet and food security situation in the world goes like this (and everything is connected in this world so that means you sitting in the US or Europe will be affected by that eventually if nothing changes!):

    Millet is mostly cultivated in arid places in Africa and India, yet it has been replaced by western crops such as the common GMO wheat crop and the corn crops over the past decades.

    This was done because multinational companies got into the game in these countries with non-local crops such as wheat, corn, and some rice varieties.

    These crops are not meant for these types of areas, they require a lot of water.

    So, in the case of India, you have poor farmers who buy these subsidized crops because the governments convince farmers to buy these crops. As a result expensive fertilizes and pesticides need to be purchased as well.

    At the same time tractors are needed and all this amounts to a lot of money that a poor Indian farmer needs.

    The farmers are bound to take a bank loan.

    And what follows have turned into a gruesome tragedy! 

    The farmers plant crops which are not meant for the environment, and they require more water.

    Water shortage is a common problem, short and late rainy seasons, or occasionally the opposite flooding, are a yearly occurrence these days.

    The crops die, the farmers are in a giant loss.

    The farmers can't pay back the banks, the banks send out their thugs to harass the farmers, the farmers either take another loan or the bank takes in some of their lands.

    The farmers lose it all and suicide in masses.

    This is just one disgusting issue.

    The second concern is unhealthier, nutritious poor crops with a layer of pesticides is now the norm and those have been making people anything but healthy.

    A one-sided diet has become commonplace in most households in India.

    The third issue is that the Indian countryside looks like a Mars landscape, and it's just been getting worse.

    You will be able to see this in a video which I will post in the following months.

    I had filmed all the way driving from Goa-Himachal Pradesh and along the way you can see that all the rivers are completely dry and that the land looks fruitless and poor.

    This could result in something a many call a “climate change” migration.

    When people cannot live in one place anymore, they will have to move on and guess where they will go?

    But there is a solution!

    Indigenous crops such as Millet have to be exchanged with these natural and human harming crops. 

    Millet crops can take high temperatures, poor soil, don't need much water and if there is flooding, they will still make it.

    They also don't need the amount of protection from local insects so fewer pesticides in our food and reduced cost for the farmers.

    Furthermore, Millet can grow up to an altitude of 2500 m.

    That is quite impressive if you ask me.

    Most probably millet crops could bring back nutrients into the soil and make the land healthy again which in turn will increase the likelihood of other plant species growth and that will reduce temperatures, flooding, and eventually drought.

    Millet grains bring a lot of benefits to the people and nature.

    It's an inexpensive grain and would, therefore, be a major food security player.

    Besides, those millets contain a balanced number of nutrients including essential fats, carbs to keep you going and full for a longer period of time, fibers for your digestion, a good dose of a natural b-vitamin complex as well a sufficient amount of plant proteins.

    Of course each millet variety will have a different natural dosage of nutrients but still, this mostly surpasses common wheat grain varieties and rice varieties.

    I think all these points make sense in the big picture, don't you agree?

    🍲 How to cook millet?

    There is a normal way and enhanced way to cook whole millet grains.

    The enhanced way: You dry toast the millet grains in a pan so that the nutty flavors of the grains are released.

    This enhances the dish flavor greatly because otherwise, millets can be rather bland.

    Then you just boil the millet.

    The normal way: Well, you just boil the millet without the extra step, but the millet dish will be less flavorful.

    Otherwise, cooking whole millet grains is like cooking any other grain such as rice.

    You can boil/steam millet in water or milk, depending on the recipe.

    For millet flour, just use it as you would use any other flour in your cooking/baking to prepare flatbread, yeast bread, bars, cookies, and cakes.

    You can also use millet flour in stove top porridge!

    1 cup raw millet grains = to about 3 ½ cups cooked millet

    💭 FAQs

    Is Millet Gluten-free/Paleo/Keto friendly?

    Yes, Millet is Gluten-free! No, Millet is not Paleo and Keto diet friendly.

    What can you use in place of millet?

    If you must, you can substitute Millet with quinoa in some recipes. But only if you really have to!

    Can I eat Millets raw?

    No, millet needs to be cooked to be digested.

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