Quick and Delicious Way For A Healthy Breakfast With Golden Millets

Maintaining healthy lifestyle habits is challenging nowadays. Due to a busy schedule, we often forget to have a whole breakfast meal. However, skipping breakfast is considered a word habit by dieticians and nutritionists. Thus the best secret for a healthy, quick breakfast option is nothing but a bowl of millet recipe. This article will share some efficient ways to kick-start the day with millet.

Golden Millets as healthy breakfast options

Cereals and grains are the staple food for most Asian and African people. Millets fall under the category of grass. But, these small grains have recently gained the attention of urban people. Since ancient times, people have been cultivating millets like sorghum, pearl millets, foxtail, and barnyard. 

During the Green revolution in India, these grains were considered the staple food for needy people. Thankfully, the awareness of excellent nutritional benefits led to evolutionary changes in regular diets. In developed and processing nations, both major and minor millets have been growing in massive amounts. 

• Golden Millets are good for healthy weight loss

Have you put on some extra bulge recently? Or have you been suffering from obesity for a longer time? It is the right time to make a new addition to a healthy breakfast. Try our Organic Millet product, which includes a substituent proportion of dietary fibres. Millets fasten metabolism. Hence, you can consider it an ideal meal for breakfast or lunch.

• Immunity booster

The sudden outbreak of coronavirus has tested the immunity of global people. It gave the best lesson on how immunity can help fight the deadliest microbes. Consumption of millet as a healthy breakfast ensures a seamless supply of essential vitamins and minerals in our body. Besides, the precise amount of protein with minimum fat also boosts healthy body growth. 

• Climate-friendly cereal grains

Another important aspect of recycling is that it gained the attention of global policymakers is rapid climate change. Thus, suitable agriculture plays a leading role in promoting healthy ecology. 

If we compare rice, wheat or millet cultivation requires comparatively less amount of irrigation and water. People from arid, semi-arid regions can easily grow such grasses. When you incorporate millet as a healthy breakfast option, you also partake in environment-friendly agricultural practices. 

Different ways to have Golden Millets in Breakfast

Millets are also called superfoods. It is beneficial and promotes healthy heart and brain functioning. Considering the proportion of 6 gm of protein, 2 grams of dietary fibre, and 36 gm of complex carbs with as low as 205 kCal of energy, Millets are the best healthy breakfast choice. There are a variety of ways to have millet for breakfast. Let’s check some quick options.

• Pancakes

Who does not love pancakes? It is easy to make and bake. The easy-to-prepare cooking process of millet pancakes attracts beginners to try sweet or savoury pancakes as a healthy breakfast option. You just need to follow the basic pancakes recipe, just replace your regular flour with millet flour. 

Add 1-2 egg whites and a little amount of powdered sugar and mix it well. Serve it hot with maple syrup or honey to make it more healthy. 1 medium-sized pancake includes 3 gms of fat and provides 15 cal of energy. You can pack this dish for lunch as well with a bowl of fruit salad.

• Smoothies

You have a tight schedule in the morning. Preparing breakfast becomes very challenging for some people after strenuous workout sessions. Here smoothie is the best healthy breakfast options one can try with millet. Making a smoothie is not rocket science; you just need to soak millet overnight. 

Add some fruits of your choice, such as banana, strawberry, curd and milk and blend it well. The nutty and crunchy texture of most millets gives your smoothie a distinct taste. One can get up to 50 calories of energy to begin the day with a smoothie bowl with fruits, nuts and millet. 

2 delicious Golden Millets breakfast recipes 

Dish #1: Ragi Malt (Finger Millet Porridge)

What do you need?

1. Ragi flour: 4 tbsp
2. Water: ½ cup
3. Jaggery powder: 1 tbsp
4. Milk: 1 cup
5. Almond powder: 1 tsp
6. Dry fruits (chopped): 1 tsp (optional)

How to cook?

• Heat a non-stick frying pan on medium-low flame. Add ragi flour and dry roast for a few minutes. 
• Now switch off the oven and add water to it. Mix it well to break all the lumps.
• Turn on the flame and cook it on low flame. Continuously stir the mixture to get a uniform mixture.
• When the colour changes to dark and the consistency becomes glossy, add jaggery powder and milk one by one.
• Try to use pre-boil milk to shorten the cooking time.
• Stir the porridge well and cook it for 3 minutes. 
• When the malt becomes smooth and creamy, add dry fruits and almond powder to get a better texture. 
• For savoury versions, replace regular milk with buttermilk and add salt instead of jaggery powder. 

Dish #2: Millet Bok Choy Fried Rice

What do you need?

1. Millet: 1 cup (soaked and boiled)
2. Oil: 1 tsp
3. Cumin seeds: ½ tsp
4. Cardamom: 3 
5. Cloves: 2-3
6. Cinnamon stick: 1
7. Pepper: 4-5
8. Bok choy: ½ cup (finely chopped)

How to Cook?

• Take a pan and heat 1 tsp of oil.
• Temer the spices (cumin seeds, cardamom, cinnamon, pepper, cloves) for 1 minute.
• When the oil is scented, add bok choy. Stir it in a high flame for 2-3 minutes.
• The veggies will wilt after a few minutes. Now add cooked millet.
• Add salt and give it a quick mix on medium-high flame.
• Wait for 5 minutes to get a uniform mixture. Stir in between the cooking to avoid burning the dish.
• Serve Millet Bok Choy Rice with mixed daal or any curry.

We can conclude that keeping your family healthy is not so challenging. When you have varieties of Millet products readily available in the market, you can make a significant addition to starting your millet journey immediately. Try our Organic Millets to prepare your first healthy millet breakfast recipe.