Nikitasa Mishra
4 min readNov 24, 2023

Little Millet Upma/Samai Upma/Millet Recipes

Millet is a healthy breakfast or supper dish that can be made with only a couple of fixings in under 30 minutes on a burner pot or Moment Pot pressure cooker.

What Are Millets?
Millets are Antiquated Grains. Humankind has known its healthy benefit for quite a long time. They are normally without gluten. Millet can likewise be utilized as a better choice to rice and in salad recipes or as a side dish.

Is Little Millet really great for wellbeing?
|Little Millet in English |Samai in tamil| Kutki in Hindi|Saame Akki in kannada|Chama in malayalam| Sama in Telugu is an extremely solid assortment of millet.

For people, they discharge glucose gradually into the circulatory system as against profoundly handled rice and wheat, which discharge it rapidly. Millets are profoundly nutritious and wealthy in calcium, protein, fiber and the rundown goes on. What's more, they are without gluten, in contrast to wheat.

Forestall diabetes
Sound heart
Forestall malignant growth
Hostile to maturing properties
Balance cholesterol level
Reinforce bones
Help absorption

Instructions to Make Little Millet/Samai Upma Recipe
Right off the bat, wash the Little Millet and absorb it water for somewhere around 15-30 minutes.

In a Kadai, add oil, mustard seeds, and jeera, and let them splutter.

Then add hing, green chilies, ginger (discretionary), curry leaves, and saute for a couple of moments.

Then, at that point, add onion. Saute briefly till the onion becomes marginally brown.

Later add finely hacked blended veggies, salt, and saute for 2-3 mins until veggies are cooked.

Then, at that point, add 1 cup of water and heat it to the point of boiling.

Channel the drenched samai and add it to the bubbling water. Blend well. Change the salt at this stage.

Then, at that point, cover with a top and cook for around 8-10 minutes on low fire.

Note: Since we doused it for 15 minutes, it decreased the cooking time.

When the little millet is cooked (until all the water has been retained, completely cooked, and looks grainy), switch off the gas and add ground coconut, coriander leaves, and lime juice.

Ultimately, blend well and Serve Little Millet Upma (Samai Upma) hot with coconut chutney or chutney powder.

The most effective method to Make Little Millet Upma in Moment Pot
Wash the Little millet and absorb it water for somewhere around 15-30 minutes.
Press SAUTE, add oil, once hot, include the mustard seeds, jeera and let them splutter.
Then add hing, green chilies, ginger (discretionary), curry leaves, and saute for a couple of moments.
Then, at that point, add onion. Saute briefly till the onion becomes marginally brown.
Add hacked blended vegetables, doused millet, ¾ cup of water, salt, and blend well. Deglaze the pot, i.e., scratch any food molecule that is adhering to the internal pot to stay away from the Consume alert.

Close the cover on the pot, and turn the strain valve to the Fixing position.
Set the pot to MANUAL/Strain COOK (High Tension) and set the clock to 4 minutes (While possibly not dousing millets, set the clock to 6 minutes). At the point when the moment pot blares, do a Characteristic strain discharge.
Finally, add ground coconut, coriander leaves, and lime squeeze and blend well.
Serve Moment Pot Little Millet Upma with coconut chutney and chai.

Enjoy 😋