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Switch on the flame and bring this mixture to boil. Remove husk from rice and millets before start soaking. See great recipes for Cholam rice (Sorghum rice), PILAU (sorghum/cowpea) too! You can cook Cholam rice (Sorghum rice) using 2 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Cholam rice (Sorghum rice)

1. It's 1 cup of cholam or sorghum.
2. Prepare 4 cups of water.

Grind rice + cholam as thick batter as after mixing, it will become watery if you add more water. I ground separately urad dal for fluffy results. You can grind in mixie as well as soak all together and grind. But best soft results in grinder.

Cholam rice (Sorghum rice) instructions

1. Wash and soak cholam for 10-15 mins.
2. Drain water completely and grind it into coarse powder (70%).
3. Add this flour to a pressure cooker and mix it with water. Switch on the flame and bring this mixture to boil. Stir occasionally. When it’s boiling Cholam stays at bottom and water comes to top..
4. At one stage, it gets thick and Cholam mixes well with water. It doesn’t stay at the bottom and we cannot separate water and Cholam..
5. At this stage close the lid and reduce the flame to low. Cook it for 1 whistle..
6. As soon as pressure releases, open the lid, mix it well and close it again. Leave it for 5 more mins..
7. It’s ready to serve now with any side dish. Moong dal goes well with it..

Use ice water for urad dal for max volume. Take Black gram [ urad dhal ] and fenugreek in a separate vessel. Then add soaked black gram and fenugreek into the grinder. Switch ON the grinder and grind the dhal by sprinkling water frequently. We will need equal quantity of urad dal, parboiled rice (idli rice) and sorghum millet (vellai cholam) for this recipe.