Millet recipes

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Published: 06/09/2008 - Updated: 05/25/2019

• Author: Nayeli Reyes

Millet is a small cereal grain, of characteristic yellow color. The millet grain is rich in starch and one of the richest food sources of minerals like iron, magnesium, phosphorus and silicon. Also contains vitamins of groups A and B. Millet is considered less fattening than wheat and has less calorific value than oats. This grain is easy to digest, it has considerable lecithin and choline content.

Here we share delicious recipes. It is recommended that you use organic millet , if not, before using millet you need to wash it thoroughly with cold water, strain several times until the water is free of dust and debris. After several washes, you can drain and leave to drain properly.

Millet Cakes

Serves : 4 people

Ingredients

• 2 cups of millet
• 1 onion, finely chopped
• 3 carrots
• natural vegetable oil
• Tamari to taste

Preparation

1. Lightly toast the millet in a little hot oil.
2. Fry the onion, split and, when soft add diced carrots.
3. Cook the vegetables for about 10 minutes.
4. Join toasted millet, pour over 2 tablespoons of hot water and cook for 40 minutes over low heat.

Millet timbal

Serves : 4 people

Ingredients

• 2 cups of millet
• Sea salt
• 1 onion, finely chopped
• 2 carrots
• 3 or 4 leaves of cabbage
• natural vegetable oil
• 3 or 4 eggs
• Tamari

Preparation

1. Cook the millet for about 40 minutes.
2. Season with a little tamari.
3. On the other hand make a sauce with the vegetables, starting with the onion with large chunks.
4. Then add small diced carrots and cabbage leaves into strips, all seasoned with tarnari.
5. Leave simmering for about 25 minutes.
6. Meanwhile, prepare a tortilla: spread a pan with oil, make a layer with the vegetables, put in half the tortilla and cover with fine crushed millet. Sprinkle grated cheese and bread and put brown in the oven for 20 minutes.

Millet cutlets

Ingredients

• Medium onion finely chopped
• A finely chopped pimento
• A clove or two of garlic
• quart liter of warm water
• A cup of millet
• Soy sauce
• 2 eggs, beaten
• Breadcrumbs
• Olive oil
• Grated cheese
• One cup of chopped parsley

Preparation

1. Fry the onion, pepper and garlic, and this mixture add 1 liter of warm water, millet and soy sauce .
2. Season with salt and pepper, and cook, stirring to form a puree.
3. When this is cool, add the beaten eggs and form a dough, shaping of Milanese.
4. Then roll in bread crumbs and fry on both sides.
5. Finally, remove and cover with sliced tomato, shredded cheese and chopped parsley.
6. Gratin in hot oven.

Vegetables with millet

Serves : 4 people

Ingredients:

• 300 gr. of Millet
• 1 onion
• 2 carrots
• 1/2 stalk of celery
• 1 zucchini
• Assorted vegetables to taste
• 1 bunch of parsley
• Gomasio
• Olive Oil
• Salt and pepper
• To decorate parsley and mint leaves

Procedure:

1. Wash vegetables.
2. Cut the onion, carrots and zucchini into thin strips, and dice celery.
3. Put the vegetables in the pan with a little olive oil in this order: start with the onion, then add the celery, bay leaf, carrots and then the remaining vegetables, except zucchini to be incorporated after a few minutes of cooking of the other vegetables.
4. Skip all with very high flame, stirring with a wooden spoon to prevent from sticking to the bottom of the pot and burn.
5. Add the washed and drained millet.
6. Mix with vegetables, toast lightly and add enough water (about twice the volume of millet), to be taken apart boiling point , let boil with a high flame, add salt, cover the pan and let simmer (about 20 minutes) is not necessary or advisable to remove .
7. Just before removing from the fire, when it is almost cooked, add the chopped parsley, sprinkle with gomasio and correct the seasoning.
8. Before serving, let it rest, off the heat for a while, so it finish inflated and, if applicable, to absorb excess water.

Azukis with millet, cheese and pumpkin

Yield: 4 servings

Ingredients:

• 200 gr. of azukis bean
• 1 cup of millet
• 5 cups of water
• 6 cm of kombu seaweed
• ½ kg of pumpkin
• ¼ kg of cauliflower
• 1 tablespoon of tahini (sesame puree)
• 2 tablespoons of wheat germ
• Chives (spring onion)
• Sea salt
• 2 cups of grated cheese to taste but that will melt

Procedure:

1. Leave to soak azukis along with kombu seaweed, overnight .
2. Put in a pressure cooker the azukis, seaweed, a pinch of salt and two cups of water. When the valve begins to turn down the heat and cook for an hour.
3. Wash millet and toast in a pan without oil until they emit a faint smell of nuts.
4. Cut the cauliflower into small pieces.
5. Put the remaining water with a pinch of salt and add the cauliflower and millet.
6. Simmer and cover until all water is absorbed (20-25 minutes).
7. Meanwhile chop the steamed squash and cook until tender.
8. Mash with a fork or potato masher and squash reserve apart.
9. Add the finely chopped chives, millet and tahini and squashing until well blended.
10. In a baking pan, put a layer of millet, azukis another layer and, finally, pumpkin.
11. Sprinkle with wheat germ and broil for 5 minutes.
12. Before serving, let stand a few minutes in the oven.
13. Sprinkle the cheese and let melt a bit.

• Nayeli Reyes

  Nayeli is an expert cook, with the title of Chef by the International Culinary School of Guadalajara (Mexico), where she obtained the honorable mention for her great talent and dedication. In Biomanantial.com she presents her best recipes so that we can prepare them easily.