September 24, 2008: Millet Munchables

2nd Let It Grain weblog event was millet, I made myself a stern mental complaint to bring together in. I've had a handbag of millet inward the pantry for good over a month, you lot see, as well as non used it at all. Thankfully, Lucy of Nourish Me had late come upward up alongside just the variety of recipe to larn me excited well-nigh it! The millet is cooked alongside chocolate-brown rice inward tea rather than water, mixed alongside tahini as well as herbs as well as rolled into balls, as well as in conclusion plopped into a soup or fried into patties.

I tried the latter approach. Even alongside a oestrus diffuser my grains cooked hotter as well as faster than they should have, as well as I added to a greater extent than H2O to prepare them longer. This wasn't the greatest of ideas, alongside my grain mixture ending upward rather mushy. Even so, the patties held together good inward the pan as well as nosotros were rewarded alongside to a greater extent than or less rather rich, nutty nuggets. We ate them alongside a salad lightly dressed alongside pomegranate molasses, as well as they worked good alongside this fresh as well as tangy contrast. The rooibos tea didn't smooth through, but I'm keen to crusade cooking millet as well as other grains inward it again, perchance constraining the other flavours they accept to compete with.

Millet munchables
(one permutation of Lucy's "2nd Let It Grain weblog event was millet, I made myself a stern mental complaint to bring together in. I've had a handbag of millet inward the pantry for good over a month, you lot see, as well as non used it at all. Thankfully, Lucy of Nourish Me had late come upward up alongside amaranth as well as chocolate-brown rice cooked inward rooibos tea")

1 1/2 cups rooibos tea, strained
1/4 loving cup millet
1/2 loving cup chocolate-brown rice
sea salt
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 tablespoons tahini
1 tablespoon tamari
1/2 tablespoon butter or oil
small handful of celery leaves
vegetable oil, for frying

Put the tea, millet as well as rice into a saucepan alongside a pinch of body of body of water salt. Bring it all to the boil, but as well as thus plough it downwardly to the lowest oestrus possible - Lucy suggests using a diffuser. Cover as well as simmer until the liquid is absorbed - Lucy reckons 40-45 minutes but my grains were parched earlier thirty minutes were up! Either agency allow the cooked grains remainder off the heat, chapeau all the same on, for v minutes.

Add all the other ingredients (except the frying oil) as well as combine well. Roll generous tablespoons of the mixture lightly inward your hands as well as and thus flatten them slightly to course of didactics patties. Fry the patties inward a petty crude oil until golden chocolate-brown on each side.