It's Time To Switch To The Nutrient-Rich Millet Flour: Everything You Need To Know About This Healthy Choice And 10 Delicious Millet Flour Recipes

The Peanut Chocolate chip Millet cookies are always great to dig in, and it makes one feel wholesome. The peanut adds the flavour and the gooey texture which anyone would love to have. Here is the recipe of Peanut Chocolate Chip Millet Cookies: To make Peanut Chocolate Chip Millet Cookies, you need:

• Millet flour (3/4 cup or 120g)
• Tapioca Floor (1/4 cup or 30g)
• Baking soda (1/2tsp or 3g
• Baking powder (1/2tsp or 2g)
• Salt (1/2tsp or 2g)
• Chocolate chips (1 cup or 225g)
• Sugar, granulated (1/4 cup or 60g)
• Brown sugar (3/4 cup or 165g)
• Peanut butter (3/4 cup or 190g)
• Eggs (1)

Follow these instructions:

• Mix all the liquid or creamy ingredients separately and then mix the dry ingredients.
• After that mix, it all and make a cookie dough. Preheat the oven to 350degrees.
• Till then, cut the dough into the shape of cookies. Bake the cookies for 12-15 minutes and the peanut chocolate chip cookies are ready to be served with your favourite coffee.

This Gluten-free strawberry shortcake can be easily made at home. It brings back memories where everything was so simple. This recipe can be made with other flours as well and making it with the millet flour is just amazing and makes it wholesome. This recipe makes the cake delightful with a light strawberry filling in it.

Ingredients required for shortcakes:

• Gluten-free flour mix ( 9oz)
• Sugar (2 tbsp)
• Baking powder (4 tsp)
• Baking soda (1/4 tsp)
• Psyllium husk powder (1/2tsp)
• Salt (1/2tsp)
• Butter, chilled and cubed butter (3 tbsp)
• Plain yogurt (3/4 cup)
• Lightly beaten egg (1)
• Vegetable oil (2 tbsp)
• Lemon juice (2tsp)
• Coarse sugar for finishing (1 tbsp)

For Strawberry Filling

• Hulled and quartered strawberries (6 cups)
• Sugar (6 tbsp)

Ingredients for Whipped Cream

• Chilled whipping cream (1 cup)
• Sugar (1 tbsp)
• Vanilla (1 tsp)

Follow these instructions:

• In a bowl mix dry ingredients and make the same into a dough-like mixture.
• In a different bowl whisk yoghurt, egg, oil and lemon juice. Combine both the mixture until they have liquidy consistency.
• Preheat the oven by 450 degrees.
• Mash the strawberries and sugar.
• Mix cream, sugar and vanilla on medium-low speed until foamy, for about 1 minute.
• Cut each cake in half lengthwise and put a generous strawberry mixture on the bottom half of the biscuit.

Flatbread is easy to make and can be even eaten with any regular vegetable that you make at home. It can be a healthy alternative for wheat roti or wheat flatbread. This is one of the simplest recipes which you will find in this article.

All you need is:

• Millet flour (2 cups)
• Ghee (2 tbsp)
• Water (2/3 cup)
• Salt (1/2 tsp)

Follow these instructions:

• To make this flatbread, you need to make a dough of millet flour.
• Once the dough is ready, you just need to flatten the dough balls with the help of belan and make flatbread or roti.
• You can top it off with ghee or butter to make it taste better. To make this even more healthy, you can skip the ghee.

Parathas are breakfast items that are loved by almost every person. This breakfast option is famous in the Northern region of India. Talking about the millet or Bajra Paranthas, they are one of the most underrated but one of the tastiest and healthiest breakfast one could have. A bajra paratha filled with Paneer stuffing is delicious and opens the taste buds to a whole different level. These paranthas, unlike wheat parathas, break easily. One needs to be super careful while making these paranthas.

Gather the following ingredients for the recipe:

For making the dough, you need:

• Black millet (bajra) flour (1.5 cup)
• Salt (a pinch)
• Some more bajra flour (black millet) for rolling

For mixing the stuff:

• Grated cottage cheese (paneer) (3/4 cup)
• Methi (fenugreek) leaves, chopped (1/4 cup)
• Tomatoes, deseeded and chopped (1/4 cup)
• Green chillies, finely chopped (1.5 tsp)

Other Ingredients required:

• Ghee (for cooking)

Follow the below-mentioned recipe to make paranthas form millet flour:

• Make a dough of bajra aata or millet flour.
• To make the stuffing, you can add tomatoes, green chillies and methi leaves into the grated paneer.
• Add the stuffing to the dough.
• After this, roll the dough with belan and make the paratha like usually stuffed paratha.
• You can add ghee in the paratha to make it extra crispy and tasty.

Everyone has the craving to munch on something crunchy, delicious yet healthy during chai time or any time of the day. This bajra methi khakhra is a great option to munch on. This bajra methi khakhra recipe is easy to make and also makes a great breakfast option. Along with this, another benefit of this recipe is that it is healthy and nutritious. It is suggested to pregnant ladies because of the multiple health benefits it offers.

Before starting cooking, gather these ingredients:

• Black millet (bajra) flour (1/2 cup)
• Red millet (ragi/nachni) flour (1/3 cup)
• Whole wheat (gehun) flour (2 tbsp)
• Ginger-garlic paste (1/2 tsp)
• Green chillies, finely chopped (1/4 tsp)
• Methi (fenugreek) leaves, finely chopped (3 tbsp)
• Turmeric power (1/4 tsp)
• Oil (1 tsp)
• Salt (as per your taste needs)
• Ghee (2.5 tsp for cooking)

Follow the recipe to make bajra methi Khakhras:

• To make this, take bajra, ragi, whole wheat flour, add methi leaves, green chillies, ginger-garlic paste and knead it into a dough.
• After making dough, roll out the small portion taken into a thin circle.
• Put the same onto a Tawa and cook it, Put pressure onto it until crispy.
• Repeat the above process for the remaining dough.

Who doesn't like toasty cinnamon rolls and for an American breakfast table these rolls are always a yummy dish people love to munch on. Now talking about the health concern, the sugary coating is one of the things that we love about these rolls, but the health meter goes to zero. In case you want to make these rolls healthily, you can skip the sugary coating. Making these rolls with millet flour is another delicious task.

Dry Ingredients required:

• Millet flour see note (250g)
• Tapioca starch (75g)
• Cornstarch (25g)
• Potato starch (25g)
• Potato flakes (25g)
• Coconut sugar or organic raw cane sugar (3 tbsp)
• Salt (1/4 tsp)
• Ground chia seeds (4tbsp)
• Active dry yeast (2.25 tsp)

Wet Ingredients

• Water (1/4 cup)
• Ener-G egg replacer (2 tbsp)
• Non-dairy milk from carton preferred (1 cup)
• Distilled white vinegar (2 tsp)

For filling

• Coconut oil liquid (2 tbsp)
• Cinnamon powder (2 tbsp)
• Coconut sugar or organic raw cane sugar (2 tsp)
• Pure stevia extract powder (1/4 tsp)

Follow these instructions

• To make these rolls, you need to add the dry ingredients together to make into a soft dough. The dry ingredients include Millet flour, corn starch, potato starch, potato flakes, salt, coconut sugar, active dry yeast, ground Chia seeds.
• Roll the dough and spread the cinnamon filling onto this.
• Now, Roll the dough forming a roll and cut the dough into the individual rolls.
• Put them in the microwave till it rises for around 30 minutes, and your tasty millet cinnamon rolls are ready to serve.

Dhebra is another famous Indian bread made with different flours. This amazing tea time snack is great to make your tea time worth it.

Here are the ingredients that you need:

• Methi (fenugreek), finely chopped (1 cup)
• Maize (makai) flour (1 cup)
• Black millet (bajra) flour (1/4 cup)
• Whole wheat (gehun) flour (1/2 cup)
• Rava/sooji/Semolina (1/4 cup)
• White millet (jowar) flour 1/4 cup)
• Haldi (turmeric powder) (1/4 tsp)
• Sesame seeds (1.5 tsp)
• Green chilli paste (2 tsp)
• Adrak (ginger) paste (1/2 tsp)
• Lehsun (garlic) paste (1/2 tsp)
• Sugar (1 tbsp)
• Hing (asafoetida) (1/4 tsp)
• Dahi (curd) (2 tbsp)
• Oil (1 tbsp)
• Salt (as per taste)
• Oil (to deep fry)

Follow these instructions

• To make this, combine all the different flour and other ingredients in a deep bowl. knead it into a dough using enough water.
• Divide the dough into equal portions and pat those portions in your hand to make 1mm thick circles of 50 mm diameter. It will look like a Tikki.
• Now deep fry the same in the oil of your choice.
• Drain the excess oil on a tissue paper. Your Methi Makai Dhebras are ready.

Pearl millet chapati is also easy to make and can be taken with any vegetable of your choice or eaten alone as well if added salt. This makes it a better and healthy alternative to the wheat chapati.

Ingredients for the chapati include:

• Wheat Flour (2 cups)
• Pearl Millet (1 cup or 250g)
• Margarine (1 tbsp, Optional)
• Cooking Oil (1/2 cup)
• Warm Water (2 cups)
• Salt (pinch)

Follow these instructions

• To make this simple chapatti, you need to make a dough from millet flour and wheat flour. Add the pearl millet flour, wheat and salt and knead into a dough which is firm but soft.
• Roll this dough into a circle and put this chapati on tawa and cook from both the sides while topping with oil or ghee.
• Serve the chapati hot or save it for later.

Do you love eating idli? Do you know it's considered one among the healthiest and greatest snacks and breakfast options one can have? The normal idlis are made from rice flour, which is not a healthy option when compared to the millet flour. This recipe is also just like normal idli but better. It is made from the goodness of millet flour. Let's check how to make this:

Ingredients include:

• Mixed Millet flour (2 cups)
• Whole urad dal (1/2 cup)
• Fenugreek seeds (1/2 tsp)
• Salt (as per taste)
• Oil (for greasing idly plates)

Follow these instructions

• Take urad dal, fenugreek seeds together and soak in water for two hours.
• After 2 hours, drain the water and grind it into a soft paste.
• Add millet flour in the same and give a good mix.
• Keep it aside for almost 7-8 hours for fermentation to happen and later add the mixture in greased idli moulds.
• Steam the idlis for almost 10 minutes, and your idlis are ready to eat with great sambar and chutney.

Sorghum is an ancient grain, which comes from central and south Africa. Sorghum has gained global popularity as a cereal crop. Those who take Sorghum in their diet automatically gets a nutrition-rich diet.

To make Sorghum millet bread, you will need these ingredients:

• Warm water (1.25 cup)
• 1Yeast (1 tbsp)
• Honey (1 tbsp)
• Vinegar (1 tsp)
• Olive oil (1/2 tbsp)
• Sorghum flour (1/2 cup)
• Millet flour (1/4 cup)
• Potato starch (2/3 cup)
• Tapioca starch (2/3 cup)
• Salt (1 tsp)
• Guar gum (2 tsp)
• Unflavored gelatin (2 tsp or 1 packet)
• Almond meal (1/3 cup)
• Ground flaxseed (1 tbsp)

Sorghum millet bread is a healthy recipe and can be made in simple steps as follows:

• Mix yeast, honey, vinegar, and oil in a small bowl. Let the mixture settle for around 5 minutes.
• Stir dry ingredients together in a medium bowl.
• Add the yeast mixture into dry ingredients and mix them in low speed to combine.
• Once the ingredients combine, mix at high speed for 5 minutes.
• To make bread, spoon the batter into a loaf pan. Smooth the top using a wet spatula.
• Cover and let it rise in a warm spot for 20 minutes. As the bread rise, preheat the oven to 400F.
• Bake the bread for 60 minutes. Cover it with aluminium foil after 10 minutes.