Recipe: Tasty Samai (Little millet) Curd Rice

Samai (Little millet) Curd Rice. Little millet, kodo millet (varagu) and barnyard millet (kuthiraivali) are more or less like eating rice, you will not know much difference. Samai is known as little millet. It has lots of health benefits.

I usually make kanji or this curd rice with millets like varagu and samai which is the best and actually there is no much difference in taste , it tastes just like. Samai (Little Millet) with curd is a simple dish made similar to South Indian style curd rice but substituting little millet instead of rice. This makes the whole dish healthy and yet very tasty. You can cook Samai (Little millet) Curd Rice using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Samai (Little millet) Curd Rice

1. Prepare 1 cup of samai.
2. It's 4 cups of water.
3. Prepare 1 tbsp of oil.
4. It's of Curd as required.
5. Prepare 1/2 of onion chopped.
6. It's 1 tsp of ginger finely chopped.
7. Prepare 2 of garlic pods finely chopped.
8. You need 3 of green chillies slitted.
9. Prepare of Salt as required.
10. It's of To Temper.
11. You need 1/2 tsp of Mustard seeds.
12. Prepare 1 tsp of Urad dal.
13. It's 1 tsp of Channa dal.

Curd rice is my favorite from childhood and especially the one with tempering. To make it healthy, I have tried curd rice with little millet aka Samai. It turned out super tasty than our regular curd rice. Samai millet is good for stomach and cure menstruation related problems for ladies.

Samai (Little millet) Curd Rice instructions

1. Wash samai and mix it with water. Pressure cook for 3 whistles.
2. While it’s getting cooked, heat a pan with oil and temper with mustard seeds, Urad dal and channa dal..
3. Add onion, garlic, ginger, green chillies together and sauté for few mins until onion becomes glassy. No need to be soft. Add salt..
4. Mix it with samai along with curd..
5. Enjoy.

Samai (Little millet in English, Sama in Telugu, Kutki in Hindi,Same in Kannada, Chama in Malayalam) is my one of the favorites among the millets I buy. I usually make kanji or this curd rice with millets like varagu and samai which is the best and actually there is no much difference in taste , it. Great recipe for Samai upma (Little millet upma). Samai (Little millet) Curd Rice. by Latha Thamil. Is little millet good for health?