Success With Millet!

[NotQuiteCockney]

We had millet for tea, and it went well!

I cooked it with a minimal amount of water, and served it with a tomatoey sauce and some chopped roasted root veg. Came out quite nice, actually. Not gravelly at all.

[Spidermama]

I'm impressed. My millet attempts have turned out to be inedible with no exceptions. Mine always tastes of cardboard and dust no matter how I try to disguise it.

[Greensleeves]

[naswm]

ooo this is interesting. I should be eating it, but got so put off by the posts when I started a thread about it, I havent dared try it yet. Maybe I should bite the bullet???

[Greensleeves]

pmsl at "bite the bullet". It's more like lots of very little bullets.

[NotQuiteCockney]

I think quinoa is easier. Cooks faster, too.

I didn't love millet, but it came out fine, entirely edible. Not hard at all.

[naswm]

I should be trying that too....

[NotQuiteCockney]

Hmm, thinking about it, I'm damning it with faint praise, aren't I? "edible".

It really was quite nice. I will try it again, although probably always with lots of sauce etc. I went through a phase in my early 20s of living on millet, lots of soups which were mostly millet, and I think that put me off the stuff.

Quinoa is really nicer, fluffier, easier to cook.

[Veggiemummy]

I think i have missed this thread but just to let you know if you are cooking millet grain as appossed to millet flakes (which is good but needs loads of fluid) if you 'roast' the grains quickly first in a fry pan then boil and simmer it in water if will come out lovely and fluffy then can be used as you have been but may seem much less bullety and cardboard tasting. to roast them just put required amount in a pan alone no oil no water and fry over heat moving them around constantly until you small a strong popcorn like smell and many of the grains look light brown.

[Greensleeves]

Yes, but...but....it's still not really food, is it?

[meowmix]

arf greeny

whats wrong with chips? [ducks and runs]

[Veggiemummy]

i'm not really sure what you mean by that, but okay if thats how you feel thats up to you. Clearly you dont like it. i happen to like millet quite a lot esp millet porrige with sultanas cooked into it or fresh blueberries. i was just posting the suggestion as i had only discovered the roasting thing in the last few months and up until then had been baffled as to why it was sold as grain when it didnt cook up as well in that form but now i found i can make it so fluffy i love it.

[meowmix]

just teasing - didn't mean any offence

[Greensleeves]

Oh, I was only being facetious, I didn't mean any offence

[Veggiemummy]

no worries, sorry my message may have come across a little terse. I was working on some job description stuff for work that and it was driving me crazy.

i love the word facetious by the way, so much cheekier than sarcastic.

[Greensleeves]

Oh good, I'm glad you're not really offended

I might try your trick with the millet actually, it would be nice to have another thing the children will eat!