Apart from peas and herbs,
we use cooked millet, eggs and ricotta cheese in the batter.
I have
used cooked millet and quinoa successfully.
Never
used the cooked millet, though.
Not exact matches
Hey Ella, Just wondering if you
use amaranth or
millet in your
cooking, and what dishes they would be good in.
I have never
cooked millet, but I am planning to try soon, since I am hosting an event that
uses it.
Millet seems to be really flexible when it comes to
cooking, and as long as I am
cooking (not baking), I tend
use millet almost exclusively because it does such a good job emulating the texture of regular flour and does not impart a strong flavor.
Additionally, you can
use millet or
millet flour to
cook falafel, bread or croquettes.
I
cook my
millet in a crockpot (as described in this post) for 6 to 7 hours on low
using 3/4 cup of
millet and 3 cups (scant) of water.
I've
used cooked quinoa instead and that comes out good and I think one of the readers tried
cooked millet and said it came out good.
Due to the low gluten content,
millet flour may need to have some sort of binding agent when
used in
cooking.
I have enjoyed the muhammara as a snack with carrots and crackers and
used it as a paste to flavor leftover
cooked millet.
You can
use just about any flour — rice flour, garbanzo bean flour (the Spice Goddess on the
cooking channel is big into garbanzo bean flour), quinoa flour,
millet flour, and any flour that does not contain gluten.
When
cooking ground
millet «powder» for homemade baby cereal,
use about 1/4 cup of powder per 1 - 2 cups of water — more or less as you see fit.
Meanwhile, in a large serving bowl,
using a rubber spatula, break up the
millet if stuck together from
cooking / cooling.
I actually did a sample once on MFP -
Using (following order of ap)- 1.5 cups kidney beans 0.5 cups blueberries 1 medium banana, 1 medium apple, 1 cup sliced strawberries 1/2 cup broccoli 2 cups raw spinach 1/2 cup mushrooms, 1/2 cup
cooked tomatoes 1 TBLSP ground flax 1/4 cup walnuts 1/4 tsp Turmeric 1/2 cup
cooked oatmeal, 1/2 cup
cooked wild rice, 1/2 cup
cooked millet
Largely grown in Ethiopia, India, and Australia, teff is
used similarly in
cooking to
millet and quinoa.