Samai (Little millet) Curd Rice. Cooking with Millets are in trend these days. It is an excellent replacement to rice. 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.

It has lots of health benefits. Due to its high fiber content it is very helpful in controlling constipation, reduce high. Little millet, kodo millet (varagu) and barnyard millet (kuthiraivali) are more or less like eating rice, you will not know much difference. You can cook Samai (Little millet) Curd Rice using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Samai (Little millet) Curd Rice

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

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. 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.

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.

It turned out super tasty than our regular curd rice. Samai millet is good for stomach and cure menstruation related problems for ladies. Of the millets my parents gave me, samai (Little millet in English, Kutki in Hindi, Sama in telugu, Same in Kannada, Chama in Malayalam) is the One day I was craving to have pongal, but wanted to try with millets. So tried my hands with samai. Wash saamai and moong dal together.