Millet Vegetable Sevai Recipe-Samai Vegetable Sevai Recipe

Now-a-days you get ready made millet sevai prepared with various millets and other food grains in health stores. Kuthiraivali sevai, corn sevai, bajra sevai, thinai sevai, etc are commonly available. I always stock these sevai at home as it comes handy for breakfast when I run out of idli dosa batter. It is easy to prepare, looks colorful and also very nutritious and healthy. Kids will love this very much. I have used Samai sevai (little millet) to prepare this vegetable sevai. You can prepare this for breakfast, dinner or lunch. Today we will learn how to make Little Millet Vegetable Sevai following this easy recipe with step wise pictures.

Millet Vegetable Sevai Recipe

Prep Time : 10 mins

Cook Time : 25 mins
Serves: 2
Recipe Category: Millet Recipes
Recipe Cuisine: South Indian

Ingredients needed

   Millet Sevai -150 grams
   Onion -1
   Ginger -1 inch piece
   Green chilli -2
   Carrot -1 medium size
   Beans -5-6
   Potato -1 medium size
   Capsicum – 1 small size
   Cabbage -1/4 cup chopped
   Sambar Powder -1 tsp
   Salt needed

For the seasoning

   Oil -1 1/2 tbsp
   Mustard seeds -1 tsp
   Urad dal -3/4 tsp
   Red chillies -1
   Curry leaves -few

For garnishing

Coriander leaves finely chopped

Preparation

Chop all the vegetables and keep it ready.

Take enough water and immerse required quantity of sevai. The sevai should be fully covered with water. Let is sit for 5 minutes.

After 5 minutes, drain the water completely and steam cook the sevai for 10-15 minutes. You can use a steamer or an idly pan.

Now the chopped vegetables and steamed sevai are kept ready. You can save a lot of time, when you keep all the things needed ready.

Method

Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, when it splutters, add urad dal and red chillies. When dal turns golden brown, add curry leaves, finely chopped onion, ginger and green chillies.

Saute until onions turn transparent. Then add all the vegetables (except capsicum), sambar powder and salt needed. Sprinkle water and cook covered stirring from time to time until the vegetables are tender.

Once the vegetables are cooked, add capsicum and cook for a few more minutes. Make sure that you do not overcook the capsicum.

Then add the steamed millet sevai, mix well and remove from heat.

Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with tomato chutney or sambar.

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Comments

Preethi

July 25, 2014 at 10:05 am

Love that you show step by step process. A very nice blog. Sambar powder is a nice addition here. Will try with the powder next time.

Leena Chandrashekar

July 25, 2014 at 10:09 am

yummy vermicelli..)

sharmila pathy

July 25, 2014 at 11:46 am

hi ur sevai looks colourful and inviting like semiya yummy………

Hamaree Rasoi

July 25, 2014 at 6:01 pm

Delicious and healthy looking sevai. Wonderfully prepared.
Deepa

Srinivasan Sampathkumar

July 26, 2014 at 2:41 am

Thank you.

sharmila pathy

July 26, 2014 at 2:38 pm

hi can u tell me where we get these kinds of millets sevai in chennai, in which deptl stores or organic stores

Anusha Vishwanath

November 5, 2020 at 3:42 am

I tried this today and it came out so well. Thanks for the tips and the detailed instructions. Your site is my go-to repository for great South Indian recipes.