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Home » HEALTHY COOKING » Varagu pulao | Kodo millet pulao recipe

Varagu pulao | Kodo millet pulao recipe

November 7, 2014 by Raks Anand 12 Comments /

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Kodo millet (Tamil: Varagu; Hindi: Kodra;  Telugu: Arikelu; Kannada: Harka). I have posted few millet recipes and with varagu, I posted varagu kanji and varagu adai. This varagu pulav is one I tried latest to add on to the millet recipes. Thanks to Abhirami for the idea for this recipe. When she handed over the millets, she was kind enough to share few recipes too and this is one among those. Yet a lot of millet recipes and ideas are yet to line up every friday, so stay tuned for the healthy recipes using millets. I was bit doubtful to try this, but when I finished cooking and opened the cooker, I was so happy to see the fluffy pulao🤩. And taste wise, no compromise as well when compared to the regular pulao. So if you are looking for different ways to include millets in you cooking, this is one to start with.
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Varagu pulao | Kodo millet recipe

Recipe Cuisine: Indian  |  Recipe Category: Lunch
Prep Time: 10 mins    |  Cook time: 20 mins    |  Serves: 2

Ingredients

Varagu/ Kodo millet – 1 cup


Water – 1 & 1/2 cups


Chopped Carrot, beans, green peas – 1 cup


Onion – 1


Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp


Green chilli – 2


Mint leaves – 12


Salt – As needed


To temper

Ghee/ oil – 3 tblsp


Cinnamon – 1 inch piece


Fennel seeds/ soambu/ saunf – 1 tsp


Bay leaf – 1


Method

  1. Heat a small pressure cooker with oil/ ghee. In medium flame, add cinnamon, fennel, bay leaf. Do not let fennel change its colour. Add onion and give it a stir. Add ginger garlic paste.
  2. 1-kodo-millet

  3. Fry for a minute in medium flame. Add the chopped veggies, mint leaves. Fry in medium flame for about 2 mins. You can add a little salt for the veggies.
  4. 2-varagu

  5. Add washed, drained millet to it and mix well. Let it dry. Flame should always in medium.
  6. 3-varagu

  7. Add water, salt and bring to boil. mix well and cook for a whistle in medium or low flame or in low flame possible for 12 mins. My stove allows me to put the flame to lowest, so I kept for 12 mins in cooker, no whistle.
  8. 4-varagu

Notes

    • Use fresh ginger garlic paste for best flavor. Mint, fennel adds a nice flavor, so do not skip it.
    • Do not fry in high flame at any stage as it will change the colour of the pulao.
    • Also while cooking the millets, let the flame be low to ensure even cooking.

Serve hot with onion raita. Fluffy, tasty, flavorful pulao 😍

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Comments

  1. AparnaRajeshkumar

    November 7, 2014 at 7:27 am

    I do often this . varagu generally fluff up well . Lovely millets.

    Reply
  2. jeyashri suresh

    November 7, 2014 at 7:40 am

    I love this pulao, recently exploring many things with millets. Quite interesting. Beautiful clicks

    Reply
  3. Divs

    November 7, 2014 at 8:48 am

    you have cooked the millet perfectly fluffy. love this pulao!

    Reply
  4. Mahalakshmi Sathiamoorthy

    November 7, 2014 at 4:24 pm

    Shd definitely try ths one…looks differnt nd yummy too…healthy food

    Reply
  5. Aishwarya

    November 13, 2014 at 7:30 am

    tried this today. Came out very well. Also tried bisi bela with millers. both came out well and like you say no compromise on taste

    Reply
  6. Jinshi M

    November 13, 2014 at 7:30 am

    Nice….I think its really good for health.I usually go through ur receipes really wonderful.Can you tell me "Kodo millet " the name in Malayalam.

    Reply
  7. Raks anand

    November 13, 2014 at 7:36 am

    Sorry dont know 🙁

    Reply
  8. Sowmya Sundararajan

    March 4, 2015 at 4:07 pm

    It's called koovaragu in malayalam Jinshi. Thanks for the info on Bhairavi naturals Raks. I was sourcing it from India all this while.

    Reply
  9. Jiju

    August 19, 2015 at 7:35 am

    Koovaragu is ragi, not kodo millet.

    Reply
  10. Sushii

    July 9, 2016 at 2:16 pm

    Hi Arama, any other millets that you would suggest for making Pulav ??

    Reply
  11. Raks anand

    July 9, 2016 at 2:21 pm

    Barnyard millet/ kuthiraivali or little millet (samai) will work.

    Reply
  12. DeviAnagha

    December 18, 2018 at 10:21 pm

    I Tried this millets for breakfast as jaava

    Reply

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