Mixed millets kanji/porridge, a healthy and hearty breakfast porridge to start your day well.
Porridge is an essential part of our food chain right from our birth. Apart from mother’s milk, a new born is fed with parboiled rice porridge. Later, starts mashed rice and lentil porridge, with mashed veggies.
As a grown up we too at times prefer porridge for our breakfast. They are quick and easy to make and have lot of option. I frequetly used to make oats porridge or Poha porridge.
When i switched to millets, i changed to leftover millets porridge with varagu/kodo millet and Kambu/pearl millet. But these were cold porridge, served with curd or buttermilk.
Both my kiddos love the Ragi and cashewnut porridge, when served warm with lots of roasted cashews on top. So, as a final touch to the Breakfast Genre, i bring you a Sathumaavu kanji using Mixed millets made at home.
This mixed millets kanji satisfies our sudden hunger pangs, and is also an easy and healthy breakfast option for adults. The kanji/porridge powder can be made ahead and refrigerated.
Here is the list of millets in English/Hindi/tamil
| Name of the Millet | Hindi | Tamil |
| Sorghum | Jowar | Cholam |
| Pearl Millet | Bajra | Kambu |
| Finger Millet | Ragi | Kezhvaragu |
| Barnyard Millet | Jhangora | Kuthiraivaali |
| Foxtail Millet | Kangni | Thinai |
| Kodo millet | Kodra | Varagu |
| Proso Millet | Barri | Pani Varagu |
| Little Millet | Kutki | Samai |
| Amaranth | Rajgira | Keerai Vidai |
The below given measurements makes a 200 grams bottle of kanji powder, which will last you a week-full, if you are making this everyday.
Totally healthy, preservative free and since i have made this using organic millets, i can also add chemical free
Mixed millets kanji/porridge
Equipment
- Pan for roasting
- Mixie/spice grinder for grinding the powder
- sauce pan for making the porridge
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp varagu arisi /Kodo millet
- 2 tbsp Thinai arisi /foxtail millet
- 2 tbsp saamai arisi /Little millet
- 2 tbsp Kuthiraivaali /Barnyard millet
- 2 tbsp chutney dal/Potukadalai /Roasted gram
- 2 tbsp badam /almonds
To make the porridge
- 2 tbsp porridge powder
- 1.5 cups milk i use full fat
- 2 tsp sugar or to taste
- ¼ tsp cardamom powder
- a generous sprinkle of cinnamon powder
- chopped almonds and raisins for garnish
Instructions
- Dry roast all the millets together. Keep the flame medium while roasting and it should turn golden brown and you should get the toasting aroma of the millet
- Take care not to over roast them or burn them, or else it the kanji might turn bitter.
- To the hot roasted millets, add almonds and roasted gram. Let it cool for 10 minutes.
- Take the ingredients in a mixer and grind it to a fine powder. Do not grind it continuously, as we have added almonds,there is a chance it will release oil and the power might clump.
- Once ground, let the powder cool a bit and store the powder in an air-tight container.
To make the porridge
- Heat milk in a sauce pan, Add cardamom powder and sugar to the boiling milk.
- Mix the kanji/porridge powder in 1/4 cup of water and make a thin liquid.
- Reduce the flame and add the kanji/porridge liquid to the milk, in thin stream. Stir well, a whisk would be better here, and cook in a slow flame until the kanji thickens.
- Take it off the stove and transfer it on to a bowl. sprinkle cinnamon, garnish with raisins and almonds and serve warm.
All it takes is 10 minutes to make this porridge mix and you don’t need any fancy equipment to grind. So make this healthy and hearty porridge and enjoy a sumptuous morning meal.
Surely a healthy one and looks super delicious too.. Bookmarking it..
Mindblowing, wat an ultimate porridge and love all the millets went in..Absolutely my kind of porridge Priya.
All those millets going in that bowl makes it more healhty.Lovely reading about your millet experiments.
Really interesting bowl of breakfast… the only millet I know is raagi, nothing else… we don't use much in our cooking either… really a good share…
Excellent one Priya..I enjoyed your series and what a find each one has been!
I love porridge for breakfast, It looks delicious . With all those millets, it's must be healthy & fulfilling.
Ahhh Sathumaavu kanchi. Kiddo loves this. He grew up eating this one.
Beautiful click and tempting bowl of porridge. Love the garnish
Wow what a highly nutritious and delicious Millet porridge.
Wow! Such a nutritious millet porridge, Priya. I am sure I am going to try it out.
Very healthy porridge. … Very good for kids
Such a healthy porridge. I have to check these millets out as the millet recipes are becoming too tempting because of the BMs.
reminds me of tiny shloku days….will make it again…when the cold weather comes in to make a nice soup
Like Pradnya it reminds me of the times when kiddo was younger. Will love to try it once I source all these millets.
When roasted,one millet tasted bitter,why so please help me,tia
Hi, sorry i m noticing the comment only now. very sorry for that. if you have over roasted the ingredient it might turn bitter. roast it golden brown.