It's like rice but better.Why do only africans and mongolians eat it?
>>22043123my bird ate this.
>>22043123shush, I don't want millet to become the next quinoa
>>22043123It's not like rice. It's sweeter and more earthy than rice and the texture is clumpy.
>>22043178>the texture is clumpyThat's a skill issue with your cooking
>>22043182No, it isn't. All millets are clumpy. It isn't like rice or quinoa or other grasses or grains or cereals that produce distinct individual grains when cooked. All millet will have some clumping. It's a feature not a bug.
>>22043250The clumpiness is a product of excess starch and too much moistureUse a proper grains to water ratio, wash out the excess starch, lightly toast the grains, use fat and you can get it done right
>>22043123Chinese also eat it. In Mandarin millet is called "Xiaomi" which means little (xiao) rice (Mi)
>>22043458It's mostly eaten by northern chinese aka mongolians
>>22043134I’m fine with this, everyone go to millet, more quinoa for me
>>22043123how do you eat this? with soya sauce like rice or just as a plain porridge/oatmeal?
>>22043134Quinoa can increase the risk of kidney stones
>>22045227I eat it with meat sauce and meat
Indians aren't Mongolians and they eat the fuck out of millet.>>22045227Porridge is coming but my wife makes roti with it. The flour, anyway. She takes millet flour, blends it with cornstarch and mixes the two with boiling water and a little oil to make roti dough. Comes tender but not as puffy as regular, wheat roti
>>22045315>Porridge is comingCommon, Jesus fucking Christ. I hate autocorrect so goddamn much.
>>22045232drinking a cup of water can decrease the risk of kidney stones
>>22043123Most traditional cultures ate this as their primary grains for a majority of human history. The wheat and rice dominance is a very recent and frankly extremely bad thing for the environment. We are a couple of bad harvest away from mass starvation, and it's mainly because we killed regional grains that were evolved to suit a particular climate best by nature through millions of years of evolution, and instead we grow rice and wheat, which are insanely water intensive (yes, not only rice but wheat too requires a lot more water than many kinds of millets)Most ecologists, treehuggers and green movement people ignore these problems entirely. It's all about "communities" and making sure climate action reaches "the poorest first". They'll eventually be kicked out, and people will realise climate change etc is a tech and process problem first, not equality and feelings and social justice problem. The will require a major catastrophe thoughAnyway, my grandpa told me when he was a child, women weren't allowed to eat wheat in his family because it was expensive, scarce and considered premium. Only the earning members could eat wheat, women and children had to eat millets. It's funny how my dad now tries to get grandpa to eat millets that he already ate as a child because they're healthier
>>22045333>my grandpa told me when he was a child, women weren't allowed to eat wheat in his family because it was expensive, scarce and considered premiumdear god what shithole did he grow up in?
>>22045465India, 1930sRice was a widespread crop even back then but not in my grandpa's area. People who didn't eat rice ate a billion different kinds of millets, or cornWheat was mostly used to make bread for the British officers and their families, normal Indians didn't eat it at all. The rich Indians ate some wheat but not as bread but flatbread
