How to cook Thinai rice (fox tail millet)

@ Magee : nice to see your post after so many days.....where are you dear? will definitely watch that program hereafter, thanks for your info, your ladoo lookes so yummy

 

Manju, glad to know it was successful..very happy...

 

Magee,yummy ladoo..share the recipe in VF(comments) thread..I too watch the program occasionally...my fav one..but with the 2 little brats I forgot the time when the program gets telecasted..

 

Machan, will try curd rice in samal..I usually make kanji(like our rice kanji) with these millets..make veg curry as side dish for that..it will be a lunch for me and DH..such a simple,healthy , delicious food..my fav..I make sweet pongal too..we can make anything which we usually make with rice with these millets ..millet rava pongal,kichadi,halwa,kozhukattai,pal kozhukattai,idli,dosai,adai anything..you name it, we can make with these millets.even I read in book that someone made faluda in kudhiraivali(barnyard millet)...

Girls,anybody reading AARAM THINAI from Ananda vikatan(a tamil magazine)...I love the way Dr.Shivaraman handles this issue..He talks very clearly why we have to switch over to our very old food culture..so if possible read it friends..

 

I have read AARAM THINAI..and I am fan of that article.He has clearly describing about our old food culture.because of that only I have started to use Millets..Its worth reading

 

Do they have the videos of this jaya tv show in net for us to watch in our own convenience?

 

I have tried with kambhu(Bajra) and the dosa/idly flavour is very good & no change in taste.
My version of this is posted @http://www.indusladies.com/forums/i...ion/234631-pearl-millet-bajra-kambu-dosa.html

Also i have made dosa's with grounded floor of tinnai or samai:kambhu:wheat in the proportion of 1:1:2. This instant dosa can be made with required floor mixed water,salt,pepper powder(or red/green chillies). If you want it more crisp add red rice 1/2 proportion(note the color will change a lot). It

 

I made oats laddoo for navarathri. made barley idli recently, ragi dhokla, thinai pulao, kudiravali bisibele bath, brown rice kozhukattai. urad dal+kambu adai, also ragi ladoo..

 

We use kambu rice, thinai dosa, varagu dosa, kuthiraivali pongal(its very yummy one with sambar), in sometimes rice for our lunch menu.