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Kodo Millet Broccoli Pulao

31/12/2021 by Sujata Roy 28 Comments

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Kodo millet broccoli pulao. A flavorful, spicy, no onion garlic and delicious pulao made with kodo millet and broccoli. You don’t have broccoli? No problem try with cauliflower, carrot, beans or mixed vegetables. An absolutely easy to make and delectable one pot meal. A very nutritious and gluten free dish for everyone.

According to Wikipedia Paspalum scrobiculatum, commonly called Kodo millet or Koda millet, is an annual grain that is grown primarily in Nepal (not to confuse with Kodo (Finger millet, Eleusine coracana) and also in India, Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, and in West Africa from where it originated. The plant is called Arikelu in the Telugu language, Varagu in Tamil, Varak (വരക്) in Malayalam, Arka in Kannada,Kodra in Hindi and Bajra (ਬਾਜਰਾ) in Punjabi.

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Now what is millet?

Millet is a group of small-seeded grains resembling small pearls. In the United States, some people haven’t heard of millet, yet it’s a staple in many parts of the world. It’s commonly included in Indian and African dishes. Millet is a gluten-free grain that’s rich in antioxidants, soluble fiber, and protein. In particular, it may lower cholesterol and blood sugar levels. The different types of millet include:

• pearl

• foxtail

• finger

• little

• jowar

• kodo

Millet is a whole grain. It’s considered a “good” carb, so it’s easily digestible. And since it’s also gluten-free, it’s a great alternative for people living with celiac disease or gluten sensitivity. Additionally, millet has a high nutritional value Millet is a whole grain that’s packed with protein, antioxidants, and nutrients. It may have numerous health benefits, such as helping lower your blood sugar and cholesterol levels. Plus, it’s gluten-free, making it an excellent choice for people who have celiac disease or follow a gluten-free diet. Its nutty taste and versatility make it well worth trying. Source – Healthline

I have used nutrient-rich broccoli with corn, green peas, green chilli, ginger and some aromatic whole spices in this millet pulao.

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Broccoli is a rich source of multiple vitamins, minerals and fiber. Different cooking methods may affect the vegetable’s nutrient composition, but broccoli is a healthy addition to your diet whether cooked or raw. Broccoli is a nutrient-rich vegetable that may enhance your health in a variety of ways, such as by reducing inflammation, improving blood sugar control, boosting immunity and promoting heart health. However, keep in mind that good health doesn’t come from any single food. Broccoli is merely one of numerous healthy foods that can contribute to optimal health. Including this nutritious vegetable in your healthy, balanced diet may help you achieve your health goals more easily. To read more about health benefits of broccoli click here.

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Here are some more broccoli recipes from this blog. Click on the link below for recipe.

1. Broccoli stir fry with carrot beans and olive

2. Broccoli mushroom noodles with sriracha sauce

3. No onion garlic broccoli potato stir fry

4. Broccoli malai curry

5. Broccoli with cottage cheese and mixed vegetables

6. Broccoli almond cheese soup

7. Broccoli stir fry with lemon and ginger julienne

8. Broccoli with egg and tomato

9. Steamed vegetable

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As I mentioned above recipe is very easy to make. You can also make it in pressure cooker. Just reduce the amount of water while cooking in pressure cooker. For 1 cup millet use 1&1/2 cup water instead of 2 cup and cook for 2 whistle. Let the pressure settle down on its own. Use green chilli according to your spice tolerance. To make the pulao more spicy add more chopped green chilli or if you are making for kids, use only one green chilli or skip chilli. You can also use mixed vegetables in this pulao like cauliflower, carrot, beans etc with broccoli. Or you can also make it like Mixed vegetable fried rice if you want. Use cooked millet instead of rice.

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Recipe

Kodo millet – 1 cup

Broccoli – 1

Green peas – 1/2 cup

Sweet corn – 1/3 cup

Great chilli – 2-3 or to taste, finely chopped

Ginger – 1 inch piece, grated

Oil – 1/2 tablespoon

Ghee or clarified butter – 1/2 tablespoon

Green cardamom – 2-3, broken

Cloves – 1 inch piece

Star anise – 1 small

Cumin seeds – 1/2 teaspoon

Dry red chilli – 1

Bay leaf – 2 small

Salt – 1&1/2 teaspoon or to taste

Sugar – 1/2 teaspoon, optional

Mint leaves – 8-10 leaves, optional

Cumin powder – 1 teaspoon

Coriander powder – 1/2 teaspoon

Turmeric powder – 1/2 teaspoon

Bengali garam masala powder – 1/2 teaspoon

Water – 2 cup

Lemon juice – 1/2 tablespoon

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Method

1. Wash the kodo millet on a strainer. Soak in sufficient water for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes drain and keep aside.

2. Wash and chop the broccoli into medium size florets.

3. Heat oil and ghee in a wok or pan. You can use only ghee or only oil if you want.

4. Add cumin seeds, start anise, green cardamom, cloves, cinnamon, dry red chilli and bay leaf. When cumin seeds starts to splutter add grated ginger and chopped green chilli. Saute for a minute. Add some more chopped green chilli to make the pulao spicy if you want.

5. You can also use finely chopped onion and garlic with ginger and green chilli if you want. Fry the onion garlic till light brown if using.

6. Add broccoli florets, cumin powder, coriander powder and turmeric powder. Saute for 2-3 minutes. You can use any vegetable with broccoli like cauliflower, carrot, beans, mushrooms etc. Even you can also use fried cubed cottage cheese or paneer in the pulao if you want.

7. Now add kodo millet and saute for a minute. Add salt, sugar, green peas and sweet corn. Saute for a minute again.

8. Add water and lemon juice. Tear up mint leaves roughly with your hand and add. You can also add 2 tablespoon chopped cilantro or coriander leaves with mint leaves. I didn’t. If you are using pressure cooker add 1&2/ cup water instead of 2 cup and pressure cook for 2 whistle. Let the pressure settle down on its own.

9. When it starts to rolling boil reduce the heat. Cover and cook on simmer for 10 minutes.

10. Remove the cover. Add Bengali garam masala powder and stir. Get the homemade garam masala powder recipe here.

11. Cover again and cook on simmer for 5 minutes more or till water absorbed completely. Remove from heat. Cover and keep aside for 5-10 minutes.

12. Your kodo millet pulao is ready. Serve hot with any raita, chutney or any spicy curry.

This post is going to feature on Facebook gourmet group Shhhhh Cooking Secretly Challenge for the theme Healthy Ideas. In this monthly group members are paired with different partners every month and two secret ingredients are given to each other. We have to use these ingredients in our recipe. Best part of this group is we can interact with a blogger every month. This month my partner is Shobha Keshwani. We had a lovely chat about healthy food. She has also an awesome YouTube channel. Shobha Keshwani gave me cardamom and star anise as secret ingredients. I made this healthy and delicious millet pulao with with these ingredients. And I gave Moringa leaves and black pepper to her as secret ingredients. And she made nutritious and delicious Corn and Moringa soup with these ingredients.

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Comments

  1. Sowmya says

    31/12/2021 at 9:53 PM

    A healthy and nutritious pulav using millets . Wonderful recipe Sujatha

    Reply
    • Batter Up With Sujata says

      01/01/2022 at 12:08 AM

      Thanks Sowmya 😊

      Reply
      • cakesncurries says

        10/01/2022 at 5:55 AM

        I love to use millets in different ways. This kodo millet pulao is perfect for quick dinners. Love the fact ,it can be made without onion garlic…even my mom can have it then. Very well written recipe Sujata.

        Reply
        • Batter Up With Sujata says

          10/01/2022 at 11:34 AM

          Thank you so much!

          Reply
  2. themadscientistskitchen says

    05/01/2022 at 5:39 AM

    I love to use millets in my cooking and this delicious millets pulao is just the one-pot meal we need. Thanks to you I can now enjoy a relaxed sunday. 😀

    Reply
    • Batter Up With Sujata says

      08/01/2022 at 5:50 PM

      Thanks a lot Archana. So glad you liked it!

      Reply
  3. Radha says

    08/01/2022 at 4:46 PM

    We do cooking without onion and garlic often and this pulao sounds a perfect one matching our flavors too! Love the way you used the secret ingredients to make a nutritious and scrumptious meal.

    Reply
    • Batter Up With Sujata says

      08/01/2022 at 5:49 PM

      Thank you so much Radha!

      Reply
  4. mayurisjikoni says

    10/01/2022 at 10:31 PM

    Filling, healthy and a good way to enjoy kodo millet. I miss it so much as it is difficult to get where I am. Whenever I am in Bangalore use it often to make pulao with different vegetables as it is easily available there.

    Reply
    • Batter Up With Sujata says

      11/01/2022 at 12:50 AM

      Thanks Mayuri. You can get it online. Its also available in Amazon.

      Reply
  5. Renu Agrawal Dongre says

    12/01/2022 at 2:52 PM

    A very healthy and delicious pulao. Incorporating millets in your daily diet is good and this recipe is very good to add.

    Reply
    • Batter Up With Sujata says

      12/01/2022 at 6:14 PM

      Thank you so much Renu!

      Reply
  6. The Girl Next Door says

    13/01/2022 at 4:05 AM

    Such a delicious and nutritious pulav! I’m always looking for different ways to use millets, and this pulav sounds right up my alley. Will definitely try it out. 😊 Love the use of broccoli and Bengali garam masala here.

    Reply
  7. preethi76 says

    15/01/2022 at 3:09 AM

    Interesting idea to use miller’s in our diet. Kodo millet broccoli Pulao looks scrumptious. A guilt free Pulao to treat ourselves on any day.

    Reply
    • Batter Up With Sujata says

      15/01/2022 at 3:11 AM

      Thanks Preethi!

      Reply
  8. poonampagar says

    15/01/2022 at 5:59 AM

    Broccoli is a happy veggie in my family..making millet pulao using it, is a wonderful idea! Would definitely love giving it a try.

    Reply
    • Batter Up With Sujata says

      15/01/2022 at 7:56 AM

      Thank you so much Poonam!

      Reply
  9. vasusvegkitchen says

    15/01/2022 at 8:17 AM

    Loved the way you used kodo millet and broccoli to prepare this pulao. Such a healthy and tasty recipe, liked the taste and aroma of bengali garam masala in pulao.

    Reply
  10. namscorner18 says

    15/01/2022 at 4:59 PM

    I love eating millets this way rather than eating separately. Kudo millet broccoli pulao is so healthy and looks so delicious. Would love it try it sometime

    Reply
    • Priya vj says

      20/01/2022 at 12:46 PM

      Combination of millet, broccoli and other veggies makes this pulao a very very healthy and flavorful meal .

      Reply
      • Batter Up With Sujata says

        20/01/2022 at 1:14 PM

        Thank you Priya!

        Reply
  11. Anu says

    16/01/2022 at 12:59 AM

    Such an interesting recipe of millets with Broccoli! I usually make kitchdi out of millets but now I can try making pulao out of it.

    Reply
  12. sizzlingtastebuds says

    17/01/2022 at 5:39 AM

    loving the combo of millets and broccoli in a pulav ! so interesting ! I like it can be made without onion too !

    Reply
    • Batter Up With Sujata says

      17/01/2022 at 11:41 AM

      Thanks Kalyani!

      Reply
  13. Sasmita Sahoo says

    20/01/2022 at 3:23 AM

    Kodo millet broccoli pulao looks so flavorful, spicy…. Love the fact that this is no onion garlic and such a delicious pulao using kodo millet and broccoli.

    Reply
  14. Seema says

    21/01/2022 at 11:00 PM

    I love the way the millets have fluffed up in this pulao. Adding broccoli certainly is a lovely idea that I can use.

    Reply
    • Batter Up With Sujata says

      22/01/2022 at 1:09 AM

      Thank you so much Seema!

      Reply
  15. prestigeautodetailingkc.com says

    12/08/2023 at 11:09 AM

    Fantastic blog post. Really Great.

    Reply

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I am Sujata Roy. A homemaker, a blogger, a passionate cook, a recipe developer, a home baker, and lastly a foodie.

Experimenting in the kitchen is what I love and enjoy doing the most. Specially experimenting with vegetarian dishes and egg-less cakes and cookies is what interests me more.

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However, I do not limit my experimental cooking to vegetarian recipes only, non-vegetarian recipe ideas are also dished out. And you can also get many healthy recipes in this blog, including different types of baking ideas with healthy ingredients. So enjoy healthy foods without compromising on taste.

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