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40 min — 15 min prep, 25 min cooking.

Foxtail Millet (Navane) Lemon Rice

Name: Foxtail Millet (Navane) Lemon Rice
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Tamil Nadu Indian
Ingredients: 1tbsp Sesame Oil; 1tsp Turmeric Powder; salt; 1cup Foxtail Millet; 1piece Ginger; Coriander Leaves; 2piece green chillies; 1piece Lemon; 0.25cup Carrot; 0.25cup boiled peanuts; 1tsp white urad dal; 1tsp Mustard Seeds (Black); 1piece Curry Leaves

Foxtail Millet Lemon Rice is a healthy South Indian millet variation of the classic Tamil lemon rice — cooked foxtail millet (navane/thinai) tempered with mustard seeds, urad dal, green chillies, ginger, curry leaves and boiled peanuts in sesame oil, then tossed with lemon juice and turmeric. A nutritious vegan diabetic-friendly lunchbox staple.

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Time 40 min · Serves 4 · 249 kcal · South India, Tamil Nadu

Ingredients

Main

Sesame Oil — 1 tbsp (whole)
Turmeric Powder — 1 tsp (ground)
salt (optional) (whole)
Foxtail Millet — 1 cup (ground)
Ginger — 1 piece (grated)
Coriander Leaves (optional) (chopped)
green chillies — 2 piece (chopped)
Lemon — 1 piece (chopped)
Carrot — 0.25 cup (chopped)
boiled peanuts — 0.25 cup (whole)

Tempering

white urad dal — 1 tsp (whole)
Mustard Seeds (Black) — 1 tsp (whole)
Curry Leaves — 1 piece (chopped)

Method

To begin making the Lemon Millet Recipe, make sure you have some cooked millets ready.
It helps using a day old millet as the grains will be separated out well.
To cook millets, add the cup of millets in a pressure cooker, add 1-1/2 cups of water and pressure cook for couple of whistles.
Once cooked the millets should be grainy.Keep the remaining ingredients handy, as this recipe will be made in a jiffy.Heat oil in a heavy bottomed pan or kadai, add the mustard seeds, the urad dal and peanuts.
Allow them to crackle and the dal and the peanuts to get roasted well until it gets a golden brown color.
Do this on low to medium heat else they will get brown faster than you want them to and the peanuts will remain raw.Once the dal is golden brown and roasted, add the curry leaves, ginger, green chillies, turmeric powder and stir for a few seconds.
Turn the heat to low, cover the pan and allow the lemon millet to steam along with the seasonings for a couple of minutes.After a couple of minutes, squeeze the lemon juice and give the millet a good stir.
Check the salt and spice levels and adjust to suit your taste.Turn off the heat and stir in the chopped coriander leaves and serve.Serve Foxtail Millet Lemon Rice Recipe along with Elai Vadam Recipe and tomato onion raita, or plain yogurt.

Common questions

How many calories in one plate of Foxtail Millet (Navane) Lemon Rice?: 249 kcal per plate.
How much cooking time?: 40 min — 15 min prep, 25 min cooking.

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