How to cook millet perfectly.
Learn how to cook millet the best way in just 20 mins. Millet is good for you & is gluten-free offering you a number of health benefits. Millet recipes are easy to make and you can use millet to make a lot of recipes from breakfast to dinner, cakes & cookies, etc..
Yield: 2 cups
Calories:
Cost: $1
Equipment
- A saucepan with a lid
- a cup to measure
- water boiler or an extra saucepan
Materials
- 2 cups boiling water
- 1 cup pearl millet
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- pinch of salt
- 1 tablespoon Cold pressed olive / coconut oil
Instructions
- Put 2 cups of water to boil in your boiler if not in a separate saucepan
- Bring another saucepan, (I suggest a deep-based saucepan) on medium heat and add the dry millet.
- Let the millet toast as you keep on stirring now and then
- Once the millet has toasted well, about 5-7 mins, lower the heat, add ginger and salt and stir together.
- Cut off the heat and the saucepan to cool (2 minutes)
- Slowly pour the boiling water and keep on stirring.
- Increase the heat to let the boiling start, let the millet boil for about 5 mins then lower the heat and cover to simmer.
- Check on your fluffy millet, once you can't see any more water, cut off the heat, cover and let the millet finish cooking from the heat.
- Add some olive or coconut millet. Fluffy it gently.
- Voilà, your ginger-spiced fluffy pearl millet is ready
- Enjoy millet in breakfast or make millet dinner
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Notes
What to do with millet leftover?
- Once it's cold, the millet becomes dry. Use a fork or your hands to separate the millet. Then, store it for future use.
- You can store cooked millet in your fridge for up to 7 days.
- To use the millet leftover, add some water to reheat it.