Thinai Moong Dal Kolusa / Foxtail Millet Moong Dal Cookies. We will cook the thinai / foxtail millet along with moong dal in the pressure cooker. I have used half a cup of foxtail millet, four tablespoon moong dal and two cups of water. Remove from heat and wait for the pressure to be released naturally. Take a pan and add in the jaggery and a cup of water. How to make millet sweet pongal with step by step pictures.
Dry roast moong dal in low flame till aroma comes.
Wash moong dal and millet together and take in a pressure cooker.
Chop all the vegetable into medium sized pieces.
You can have Thinai Moong Dal Kolusa / Foxtail Millet Moong Dal Cookies using 8 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Thinai Moong Dal Kolusa / Foxtail Millet Moong Dal Cookies
- It's 2 cups of Thinai Flour / Foxtail millet flour.
- It's 1 cup of Moong dal.
- It's 1 cup of Sugar.
- You need 1 tbsp of Ghee.
- Prepare 3 of Eggs.
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of Cardamom powder.
- It's 1 pinch of Salt.
- Prepare Some of Oil for deep frying.
Heat oil in a pressure pan, add mustard seeds, when it splutters, add urad dal, cumin seeds, red chillies, hing, black pepper and curry leaves. Add four cups of water to the mixture. I don't add the millet and dal directly in the cooker. Thinai Pongal is healthy variation of normal Ven/Kara Pongal made with foxtail millet instead of rice.
Thinai Moong Dal Kolusa / Foxtail Millet Moong Dal Cookies step by step
- Powder sugar and keep aside. Dry roast moong dal in a kadai till it turns golden brown and a nice aroma comes. Do not burn it. Cool the dal and powder it. Sieve it and keep aside.Mix the eggs with a fork just enough to blend it together, keep aside.In a mixing bowl add thinai flour, powdered moong dal flour, powdered sugar and a pinch of salt, mix well.Melt ghee and add to the above flour mixture. Mix well..
- Add mixed egg mixture little by little and knead the dough. Add just enough egg so as to bring the flour together and form a dough. The dough must be thick.Roll out the dough to 1/8 of an inch thickness and cut into desired shapes. You can either deep fry or bake it..
- For baking: Preheat the oven to 180 degrees for 10 minutes in mode 'toast'.Brush the cookies on the top with the egg mixture.Place the baking tray in the center rack of the oven.Bake the cookies for 10 - 12 minutes at 180 degrees in mode 'bake'..
- For deep frying: Heat oil in a kadai, fry the kolusa one by one under low heat. Notes: You don't have to refrigerate the dough before rolling out to make cookies. If you are deep frying it, then do it in low flame. Since it contains sugar, the outside browns quickly and the inside will be under-cooked..
Method of preparation is almost similar to ven pongal only the quantity of water varies. Foxtail millet takes more time to cook compared to other millets. Perfect and healthy option for quick and easy breakfast. Bengal Gram / Kadalai Paruppu. ¼ cup. Thur Dal / Thuvaram paruppu. ¼ cup.