Millet
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MILLET (Fr. millet; Ital. miglietto, diminutive of miglio= Lat. mille, a thousand, in allusion to its fertility), ...
Millet is a hardy annual, capable of growing in conditions that would kill other crops. Millet thrives in intense heat and poor soil, which makes it a natural choice for areas of the world that are turning into deserts.
millet Pronunciation: MILL-it Notes: Unhulled millet is widely used as birdseed, but many health food stores carry hulled millet for human consumption.
Millet: Millet is a major food source in arid and semi-arid regions of the world, like India and Africa, and it is featured in the traditional cuisine of many others.
Millet: the small grains of a cereal grass, used in preparation of some foods.
Mseto: Swahili word for rice or lentils; usually cooked into a thick sauce, highly seasoned and served with meat or fish.
Millet flour:
Finely ground flour from whole millet; a starchy, low-gluten flour with a texture similar to rice flour.
millet: A small, round gluten-free grain that has a mild, yet nutty flavor.
mince: To cut food into tiny pieces of random shapes.
mirin: A slightly syrupy, sweet cooking sake.
Millet seeds are then sterilized before being inoculated with mushroom spores. After planting, the growing beds are blanketed with plastic covering and left in darkness. The seeds will be completely white in 15 or 16 days (center photo above).
Millet was also used for couscous by the Kel Ahaggar, a nomadic people of the desert of southern Algeria, who probably learned about it in the West African Sudan, where it has been known for centuries.
Millet is the collective name of a group of genera of the Grass family (Gramineae/Paniceae) widely grown around the world for food or animal feed.
Millet: A small, round, gluten-less grain that is boiled or ground into flour.
Milling: The process by which grain is ground into flour or meal.
Mince: To chop into very small pieces.
Banana Millet Muffins
From Heart-Healthy Living
Made with millet, applesauce, and bananas, these heart-healthy muffins will fill you up at breakfast or snack time.
Erly Lenten dish, millet with raisins.
Erofeich Russian traditional name of herb and spicy nastoykas (without sugar).
Millet is ground in India, Russia, and China. Rye is much used for bread in N Europe, buckwheat in the Netherlands and Russia, and corn in the United States. Rice may be used for bread in combination with other grains richer in gluten.
Millet This mild, very digestible grain is a favorite for folks on a wheat-free diet. It also has a good balance of essential amino acids and is delicious with sautéed vegetables and beans or when used to make risotto.
Rice Wine - Known colloquially as "yellow wine," rice wine is a rich-flavored liquid with a relatively low alcohol content that is made from fermented glutinous rice or millet.
The small round grains look similar to millet but are pale brown in colour. The taste is mild, and the texture firm and slightly chewy. It can be cooked like millet and absorbs twice its volume in liquid.
China, where fragile pancakes of millet meal or wheat flour were popular because of their short preparation time.
A rice wine made by fermenting glutinous rice, millet, yeast and local water from the Chinese region of Shaoxing, which is why it is also known as Shaoxing or Shao Hsing rice wine.
According to another theory, the base word is an Iberic cognate to Italian meligo 'sorghum, millet', although the diminutive appears less plausible. Also, borrowing from an African tongue has been suggested.
Quinoa
These small, round, pale-brown grains look similar to millet and have a mild taste and a firm texture. Quinoa is considered a complete protein because it contains all eight essential amino acids.
Maasa (West African): A local cake made from millet or corn flour. The flour is usually fermented and deep fried. Eaten alone or mashed in milk.
Mabi (Spanish, Dominican Republic): Very soft fruit juice ...
Kasha - a side dish, like a pasta or rice side dish, served in Eastern Europe. It may be buckwheat, barley, or millet. Also, cooked buckwheat.
Kebab; Kabob - minced meat or cubes of meat on a skewer, usually marinated before cooking.
millet A grain native to Africa and Asia. Millet has been cultivated in
dry, poor soil for millennia as an important high-protein staple, but
in the U.S. it is used mostly for animal fodder; it has no gluten.
Other grains (cereal and non-cereal) ground into flours include amaranth, barley, buckwheat, millet, oats, quinoa, teff, and triticale.
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Grain
1. As in cereal grain; edible seeds or grain produced by plants in the grass family. The most popular cereal grains are barley, corn, millet, oats, quinoa, rice, rye, sorghum, triticale, wheat and wild rice.
Roti - The name is related to the French word "rôtie," meaning toasted bread. It is made from whole wheat (aata), millet (bajra) or sorghum (jowar) ...
A variety of flour that is most often used in East Indian cooking. Garbanzo beans, also known as chickpeas, are processed into a flour that is very similar to millet providing a rich sweet flavor to baked foods.
Dating back to the Incas, this grain is still grown in Bolivia and Peru. It is regarded as a 'superfood' as it is extremely rich in complete protein, so is excellent for vegetarians. The small round grains look similar to millet but are pale brown in ...
Wash, tear and dry a few heads of lettuce and store in zip-close bags for days of salad fixings; wash and prepare a pot of beans or greens; cook up a batch of gluten-free grain "meal bases" such as rice, polenta quinoa or millet.
 See also: Mille, Grain, Rice, Cooking, Wheat
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