Saamai Thakkaali Saadham (Little Millet Tomato Rice)

This recipe is a simple method by making just a masala and mixing with a cooked millet. Millet cooked in instant pot gives a super separate grainy texture. Yes, you can prepare many variety rice recipes using millets prepared in IP. Look out my foxtail millet pulao too.

Cooking time: 10 mins

Serving: 2

Ingredients:

Little Millet / Saamai - 1/2 cup (1 cup - 200 ml)
Onion - 1/2 (thinly sliced)
Tomato - 2 (sliced)
Peas - 1/3 cup
Green chilli - 2
Red chilli - 2
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tspn
Mustard seeds - 1/4 tspn
Uraddal - 1 tspn
Cumin seeds - 1 tspn
Turmeric - 1/4 tspn
Curry leaves - few
Coriander leaves - few (chopped)
Oil - 3 tspn
Salt to taste

Method:

1. Grab all the ingredients. Switch on the IP. Pour a cup of water into the pot. Place the trivet. Keep the vessel containing little millet with 3/4 cup of water and a tspn of oil.

2. Close the lid. Press the manual for 5 mins in High Pressure HP in sealed position. Then do Natural Pressure Release NPR.

3. Take out the vessel from the pot. Fluff it with a fork. Look how beautifully grainy millets came out.

4. Heat a kadaai. Add oil, mustard seeds, uraddal, cumin seeds.

5. Add onions, green chillies and red chillies, curry leaves.

6. Add ginger garlic paste and saute till the raw smell goes.

7. Add tomatoes, turmeric and salt and saute till it becomes mushy.

8. Add peas and saute for a minute.

9. Saute till it becomes a gravy. The gravy should be a medium thickness. It's not needed to be a chutney consistency (the moisture will be absorbed well by the millets which gives a soft texture to it).

10. Add the cooked millet. Mix well. Add coriander leaves. Switch off.

11. Yummy grainy tomato millet is ready to serve.

Notes:

You can prepare the same recipe with other millets too.
Since millets normally cooks faster you can cook the rice in open pot too.
If pressure cooking cook for about 1 whistle.