கம்மங்கூழ் -Kambu-Choola Koozh

Ingredients: 

Pearl Millet (Kambu) - 1 cup (I used broken kambu)

Water - 3.5 cups

Thin Buttermilk - 2 cups

Salt - to taste

Method:

* Rinse the broken kambu well and transfer to pressure cooker and add water and pressure cook in low medium flame for 3-4 whistles.

* Once pressure releases, open and switch on the flame.Keep stirring till it becomes thick enough to roll into a ball.

*Making ball: Take a flat plate, drop a little bit of goopy mixture. Sprinkle few drops of water over and around the mixture. Note: Keep a bowl with plenty of cold water handy. Using clean and wet hands shape this goopy mixture(while its hot enough for the hands to handle) into round balls. The size of balls are depends.

* Place the kambu balls in a bowl containing water till immersing level. Leave it overnight. Then mix it well.

* Mix well without any lumps, then finally add buttermilk,required salt and give a quick stir. Clean hand is the better spoon to mix this.

* Serve with raw onion or green chilli or Raw mango with chilli/salt powder

For broken kambu: sprinkle little water over it and leave it for 15mins then grind it in a mixer to make it coarse...just 2-3 pulse is enough.

-நன்றி: மைதிலி தியாகு, USA