Name: How to make Maavinkai samai chitranna
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 2 Servings
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: Raw mango: 1/4 cup; Coconut: 2; Green chilly: 1; Ginger: 1/2" piece; Gingelly oil: 1 tbsp; Mustard: 1 tsp; Bengal gram dal: 1 tsp; Turmeric powder: 1/4 tsp; Asafoetida: 1/4 tsp; Peanuts: 1 tbsp; Curry leaves: few; Red chillies: 2; Salt: To taste; FOR MAVINKAI SAMAI CHITRANNA; Samai/ Little millet: 1/2 cup

Ingredients

FOR THE MANGO PASTE

1/4 cup Raw mango

2 Coconut

1 Green chilly

1/2" piece Ginger

FOR TEMPERING

1 tbsp Gingelly oil

1 tsp Mustard

1 tsp Bengal gram dal

1/4 tsp Turmeric powder

1/4 tsp Asafoetida

1 tbsp Peanuts

few Curry leaves

2 Red chillies

To taste Salt

FOR MAVINKAI SAMAI CHITRANNA

1/2 cup Samai/ Little millet

Directions

For the third day of Blogging marathon with grains, I have yet another millet recipe. C if for chitranna. This is a very common dish in Karnataka. Generally, chitranna refers to lemon rice. But we can make many varieties of chitranna. My daughter loves the maavinkkai chitranna or maanga saadam that I usually make. We can make sabasige chitranna too or the dill flavoured rice. Since the mangoes are in season I chose to make the maavinkai chitranna. As I am cooking millet recipes, this post is to show you all as to how to cook Maavinkai samai chitranna easily.

HOW TO COOK MAAVINKAI SAMAI CHITRANNA

Cooking with millets is actually as simple as cooking with rice. We can make almost make all types of south Indian rice varieties with the millets. Today I have cooked maavinkai chitranna with samai. Samai is called as the little millet. When we are cooking for pulao or mixed rice, we want the grains to be separate and not mushy, So the universal rule which I follow across all millets are cooked the grains in the ratio of 1:2 that is 1 part of grain to 2 parts of water. If we want to cook for Pongal or kichadi we can go up to 4 parts of water too.

how to cook samai maavinkai chitranna

One thumb rule to follow before cooking any kind of millet would be to wash it thoroughly 3 to 4 times. Wash and rinse thoroughly and use. It can be cooked in an open pot or can be cooked in a pressure cooker. However you are cooking, transfer it to different serving bowl once you have cooked it, else it will tend to clump up if left in the same vessel.

I have cooked samai or little millet in two others ways

Samai Sakkarai Pongal

Samai Kesari

The other recipes in the A-z series for the pulav fest are

Quinoa Avarekaalu pulav

Quick kodo millet Brinji

Steps

1 Done	FOR THE MANGO PASTE Grind the raw mango, coconut, green chilly and ginger together with a minimum amount of water into a smooth paste
2 Done	Add 1 cup of water to 1/2 cup of washed millet and cook in pressure cooker up to 3 whistles. Let it cool completely
3 Done	Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds. Once they splutter add the bengal gram dal and peanuts. Saute for 1 minute. Now add the turmeric powder and asafoetida, red chillies and curry leaves and saute for another minute
4 Done	Now add the ground paste and saute till the raw flavour goes off and the moisture is removed. Switch off the fire and let it cool.
5 Done	Now add the cooked millet to this cooked mango masala paste and mix well. Adjust the salt if necessary. Serve with appalam.

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I have this on my list too. Love the millet version of it. It looks so beautiful and tempting!!

Love this version of mavinakaayi chitranna and using millets makes it a healthier and guilt free meal.

Lovely version of maangai saadam. I agree little millet tends to clump together very quickly.

This is a fantastic option Veena, I love this version and had previously made with all millets during Navratri. Your bowl looks so inviting!

I have not even tried the basic version of mango rice , and here I have a gf version !
Must try it , looks great . And yes I have jotted down the thumb rule of proportion – thanks for explaining so well .

When mango season starts, I always make sure to prepare maangai saadam as it is my favorite rice varieties. Your version using saamai looks so yum Veena. Please parcel me some..

Yaayy my favorite. I didn’t know maanga sadam had a fancy kannada name, lovely photos and great one pot receipe

Awesome Veena, I have made similar rice dish to be posted later in the month. Your dish looks lovely and healthy than mine as I used rice in the place of millets.

I love maavinkai chitranna. Great way to add the tangy green mangoes. With millets this becomes very healthy too. Love it.

Beautifully presented! Cannot wait to try this, thank you for sharing!

Love this millet mango verison.. looks so tempting and your click makes me hungry.

We made a different version of Chitranna today for ugadi but this millet dish is screaming out my name !! Yummmmm

Awesome ,now that the mangoes are in season it is super yummy and lovely..

Wow this looks like a perfect lipsmacking and a healthy recipes. I love green mango and the recipe looks so yum

I make mango rice with a slight variation.. like this millet version.. sounds so delicious!!

Wow you have given another version to the samai rice. This looks so interesting with the addition of raw mango and coconut. yum

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