Recipe: Perfect Samai (Little millet) Curd Rice

Samai (Little millet) Curd Rice. Samai Thayir Sadam-Little Millet Curd Rice-Millet Recipes. Samai or sama is the smallest of all millets, that is why it is called "Little Millet'. Little Millet is known as Samai in Tamil, Same in Kannada, Kutki in Hindi, Sama in Telugu and Chama in Malayalam.

I already shared that Little Millet is a texture and taste that is very close to regular rice. So you can make any variety rice dish using little millet. Curd rice is my favorite from childhood and especially the one with tempering. You can have Samai (Little millet) Curd Rice using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Samai (Little millet) Curd Rice

1. Prepare 1 cup of samai.
2. Prepare 4 cups of water.
3. You need 1 tbsp of oil.
4. You need of Curd as required.
5. You need 1/2 of onion chopped.
6. You need 1 tsp of ginger finely chopped.
7. Prepare 2 of garlic pods finely chopped.
8. It's 3 of green chillies slitted.
9. It's of Salt as required.
10. You need of To Temper.
11. Prepare 1/2 tsp of Mustard seeds.
12. Prepare 1 tsp of Urad dal.
13. You need 1 tsp of Channa dal.

To make it healthy, I have tried curd rice with little millet aka Samai. It turned out super tasty than our regular curd rice. Samai millet is good for stomach and cure menstruation related problems for ladies. Samai is known as little millet.

Samai (Little millet) Curd Rice instructions

1. Wash samai and mix it with water. Pressure cook for 3 whistles.
2. While it’s getting cooked, heat a pan with oil and temper with mustard seeds, Urad dal and channa dal..
3. Add onion, garlic, ginger, green chillies together and sauté for few mins until onion becomes glassy. No need to be soft. Add salt..
4. Mix it with samai along with curd..
5. Enjoy.

It has lots of health benefits. Due to its high fiber content it is very helpful in controlling constipation, reduce high sugar levels and helps in weight reduction. Samai (Little millet in English, Sama in Telugu, Kutki in Hindi,Same in Kannada, Chama in Malayalam) is my one of the favorites among the millets I buy. I usually make kanji or this curd rice with millets like varagu and samai which is the best and actually there is no much difference in taste , it tastes just like our regular curd rice so this can be another healthy addition to your lunch menu. Millets curd rice or siridhanya mosaranna recipe explained with step by step pictures.