Sahaja Aharam - Millets - Delicious & Healthy Choice

October 29, 2022

Millets for our sedentary lifestyle!

Today, we all are running a marathon, leading a sedentary lifestyle, with rising levels of health issues. This is gaining attention of a healthy lifestyle, choosing healthy food. Hence, the demand for millets, once upon a time our traditional food is on rise again. A product people associate with as a healthy choice - a better choice. It is a small seeded grass grown as a millet. The purpose with which we eat rice or wheat, the same applies to millets, which is carbohydrates i.e., energy for our body.

The reason millet is preferred to rice or wheat is it’s good qualities like low glycemic index (low level of carbohydrates that affect our body sugar levels). You digest and absorb them more slowly and thus helps in keeping the blood sugar level low. Even though it is a strong motivational reason for immediate shift to millets, one should dig deep, understand better and accordingly make a choice, because another major fact about millet is it being a highly fibrous product. Thus, making it not so easy to digest, which may lead to bowel trouble. This calls for a careful processing and cooking to make them palatable yet retaining the nutrition and fibre.

So, if someone decides to do a transition from Rice or Wheat to Millets, it is advisable to do it moderately, may be once a week. If you want to substitute it with rice, do a combination of White rice with millet like finger, pearl, kodo or little in 1:0.5 ratio (1 cup of rice-to-half a cup of millet). Jump to the other varieties only when your body gets habituated to it. Go one step at a time. ‘Slow and steady wins the race.’

If you are a resident of Hyderabad, Telangana (India), you can get all sorts of organic fresh millets at Sahaja Aharam. Sahaja Aharam Organic Retail Store is committed in providing highest quality, fresh and natural/organic food to the consumers, connecting them directly to our farmers, thereby assuring a healthy lifestyle and a better price realization for farmers. We have stores in Tarnaka, Karkhana and Kukatpally – all Hyderabad and one store at MVP Colony, Visakhapatnam. We also run mobile vans in Hyderabad. You can order online at https://sahajaaharam.com/#quickshop

Please remember, understanding food alone is not enough to lead a healthy lifestyle. Understanding food with our body type, with our gut system becomes crucial. Integrate them together and make choices. Just because a kind of food worked wonders for one, does not mean it will similarly work for other also.

A Millet Recipe (for all age group):
Transition is a hard work, especially in case of food where many times our minds associate food with its colour. The bright White rice always outstands the Brown or the Red ones or the dull shades of millets but we need to understand that each natural colours we see in our food represent a nutrient. Hence more colourful the plate is more nutrients you have.  And if you are a parent and trying to inculcate the same to your child, start with easy to eat and digest food. So today, we are here with a simple yet delicious millet recipe, where one can easily make and enjoy at the same time.


Ingredients:
  1. Foxtail millet flour - 100gms
  2. Chana flour - 3 tbsp - 50gms
  3. Vegetables: Sweet corn, Green Peas, Onion, Capsicum, boiled Potato, Ginger, Green Chilli, and Tomato (if you like)
  4. Lime juice or an alternative option - tamarind paste
  5. Greens: Palak, Coriander and Soy (Dill) leaves
  6. Spices: Ajwain, Jeera and Red Chilli Powder (as per your taste), and
  7. Salt

Procedure: (for serving 3 people)
  1. Wash the millets and let them dry for some time.
  2. Once they are dry, grind them into flour.
  3. Take 3tbsp Chana flour (for binding).
  4. Finely chop all the vegetables and the greens.
  5. Mix all the above ingredients - Chana flour, chopped vegetables and the millet flour.
  6. Add 2 tbsp tamarind paste, chilli powder (as per your taste), finely chopped soy, coriander and mint leaves
  7. Add salt (for taste).
  8. Mix all the ingredients and make flat-circular shapes.
  9. Shallow fry them on a pan.
  10. Serve & enjoy them hot. (If your children want, let them have them with ketchup).

Some tips:
  1. You can use Arikelu (Kodo millet) or Samalu (Little millet) or any other millet also.
  2. Sajjalu (Pearl millet) and Jowar (Sorghum millet) gives a sweet taste.
  3. Dry roast the millet flour to store it safely for a longer duration.

G S V Vinyasa
G S V Vinyasa
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