Post Harvest Technology



Harvesting

  • Ragi matures 3-5 months after sowing, depending on variety, season and soil properties.
  • Harvest the crop when the ears are yellowish brown.
  • Heap the harvested ears and cover the heaps with ragi straw for 2-3 days before threshing.
  • Dried earheads are beaten with sticks, sheaves are trodden by bullocks or crushed by stone rollers. Separated grains are winnowed and cleaned.
  • Straw from irrigated plants is coarse and thick and is rarely cut. It is grazed down or sometimes turned under as manure for next crop
  • Grain is higher in protein, fat and minerals than rice, corn, or sorghum.
  • It is usually converted into flour and made into cakes, puddings, or porridge.
  • The grain is used in the preparation of food items such as ragi dosa, ragi balls, pancake, vermicelli, malt, biscuit, beer, papads, millet mix, bread, roti etc.

i.Stages of Harvesting

  • Ragi matures 3 to 5 months after sowing, depending on variety, season and soil properties.
  • When the earhead on the main shoot and 50% of the earheads on the crop turn brown, the crop is ready for the harvest.
  • Rainfed crops are cut close to ground, stalks are allowed to wither for a day or two in field, and then bundled and stacked before threshing.
  • The earhead do not have synchronous maturity. Therefore, staggered harvesting at weekly interval is recommended.

First harvest

  •  Cut all earheads which have turned brown.
  •  Dry, thresh and clean the grains by winnowing.

Second harvest

  •  Seven days after the first harvest, cut all the earheads including the green ones.
  • Cure the grains to obtain maturity by heaping the harvested earheads in shade for one day without drying, so that the humidity and temperature increase and the grains get cured.
  • Dry, thresh and clean the grains by winnowing and store the grains in gunnies.

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ii.Method of harvesting

  • Harvesting is the process of gathering a crop. In ragi, harvesting refers to the cutting and gathering of earheads along the stalks.
  • Once the plant attains  maturity stage and the grains turns brown colour, harvesting process is commenced.
  • Generally, harvesting is done manually. This is the most widely used method of harvesting.
  •  When the earheads turns brown color or at maturity stage, cut the earheads alone or cut the stalk along with ear heads by using sickles. 
  • Avoid harvesting during wet weather conditions
  • Harvest the crop when the grains become hard and contain sufficient moisture
  • Avoid pest infestation prior to harvesting
  • Stalks are allowed to wither  for one or two days in the field, then bundled and stocked  for sometime depending upon the weather conditions before threshing.

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iii.Yield

  • The average yield of rainfed crop ranges from 1.0 to 1.5 tonnes grain/ha, whereas irrigated crop yields up to 5.0 tonnes/ha.
  • Yield depends on variety and is directly related to duration, height and tillering capacity of type grown.
  • Types with straight spikes give better yields than those with curved spikes. The fodder yield ranges from 3.0 to 9.0 tonnes/ha in case early group and 9.5-10.0 tonnes/ha in late group.
  • The straw of finger millet is a nutritious fodder. It can be conserved by putting up in well-built stakes.
The yield attributes (range) of finger millet are as below
Attribute Value

Productive tillers (No.)

2-4.5

Finger number (No.)

5.12

Finger length (cm)

3-14 cm

Grains/finger

22-81

1,000 grain weight (g)

1.0-4.5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tips to increase grain yield

  • Cytokinin 10 ppm foliar spray at 40 and 50 DAS increases the grain yield.
  • Urea 2% foliar spray at 40 and 50 DAS increases the grain yield.
  • Seed hardening with KCl 1% + CaCl2 1% under rainfed condition increases the grain yield.
  • Ragi inter-cropped with green gram at 4:1 ratio recorded the highest income followed by 6:1 ratio (Rs.2239/ha) and 8:1 ratio against pure crop of ragi.
  • Azospirillum either as seed treatment or furrow application in rainfed ragi after sowing saves N dose from 25-50% with a grain yield increase.
  • Soaking finger millet seeds in CCC 5 ppm (or) cattle urine 10% solution (seed hardening) has given increased grain yield of 12 to 15% over unsoaked dry seeds. The cost of chemical (CCC) used for pre-sowing soaking seeds works out to Rs.1/- and the profit due to increased grain yield to Rs.150/-.
  • An integrated nutrient management study revealed that addition of tank silt/ black soil at the rate of 80 t/ha accounted for marked increase in the yield of ragi (Paiyur 1). Further the addition of tank silt/ black soil had a very good residual effect on horse gram by increasing the yield. Besides, it also improved the soil organic matter content, CEC, WHC and fertility of the soil.
  • Integrated weed management practice for rainfed direct seeded ragi revealed that post emergence application on the 10th day, either 2,4-D Na salt or 2,4- D Ethylester at 0.5 kg/ha recorded higher yield.
  • Application of 50 kg N/ha in two splits at sowing and 20-30 DAS, with 20 kg P2O5 as enriched FYM at sowing was superior to top dressing of N at 25-30 DAS and P2O5 applied as straight fertilizer at sowing in rainfed ragi..
  • Delay in rainfall onset can be managed with sowing of short duration ragi culture DPI 2011 (95 days), while with normal onset of monsoon Paiyur 1 (110 days) can be followed. The intermittent dry spell can be overcome by incorporation of composted coir pith (5t/ha), random tie ridging and soil mulching with blade harrow.
  • Application of RIF + EFYM to ragi – horse gram / cowpea crop sequence recorded the highest grain yield.

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Curing and Drying


  • The harvested ears of ragi is piled up as a heap in a cloth or gunny bag, tied up and allowed to steam inside for 3-4 days.
  • This process matures the batch and all the ears become a beautiful uniform brown.
  • Care is to be taken to ensure that the ears are dry when harvesting, no water ingress in this process and the harvest must be done only in dry weather conditions.
  • After curing, the ragi ears are thoroughly dried depending on the time of the year, this could last 1-4 days. This process facilitates easy detachment of grains from spikelet’s.

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Threshing


  • The grains are removed from cured ear heads by hand threshing, bullock / bamboo threshing or by machine threshing
  • The ragi straw with grains are spread out on the road and vehicles trampling them. This is the classic method of loosening of grains in our country
  • Manual threshing  is done by either treading, beating the ear heads, threshing board or rack or beating the ear heads  by wooden logs or bamboo sticks for detachment of grains. After this process, most of the grains would have settled down towards the bottom of the pile and the chaff at the top.
  • Pedal operated thresher consists of a rotating drum with wire loops which strip the grains from the ear heads when fed by hand. It can be operated by women and can be used in hilly or terraced areas because of its portability.
  • The dried ear heads are rubbed in between the hands and the grains are easily detached from the ear heads by engaging women labourers.
  • Mechanical threshing is done by using SBI thresher or multi crop threshers. In this, whole ragi stalks are fed into the machine and a major portion of the grain is threshed by the impact of the bars or spikes of the cylinder. The initial impact also accerlates the straw and further threshing is accomplished as the moving particles hit the bar and the concave.

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Winnowing


  • Winnowing of Ragi involves the separation of undesirable foreign matter or materials other than grain and leaving a cleaned paddy for storage and processing. Depending on the production management, harvesting, threshing and handling methods used, the field-processed Ragi may contain various other crop and weed seeds, straw, chaff, panicle stems, as well as empty, immature and damaged grains.
  • The chaff is separated by engaging women labourers and the grain is dropped through a crosswind to remove the light impurities.
  • Winnowing is also done by using grain winnower. This machine winnows and cleans the Ragi after threshing. It consists of a feed hopper to hold the grain for cleaning. It discharges the grain over a scalper and removes bigger size impurities. A blower provided at the bottom passes air against the grain falling through the scalper which separates the straw, chaff and other impurities.  The dust, chaff and straw are collected separately and cleaned paddy is taken out through another outlet near the bottom of the unit.
  • The clean and pure grains are stored in gunny bags or containers after the winnowing process.

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Grading


  • The importance of seed size grading is improving physical and physiological quality of seeds
  • It helps to ensure that producers get paid maximum value for their grain according to the quality of the grain.
  • It helps us attract and keep customers who buy our grain for its consistent quality.
  • Pre cleaned Ragi seeds are size graded by passing the grains to  British Standard Sieve -BSS 10 x 10 (aperture width 2.4mm) as scalper and BSS 12 x 12 (aperture width 2.0 mm) as grader, processing loss will be 10 to 15%.
  • Graded seeds are stored in tightly closed containers or gunny bags

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Storage of Ragi seeds


  • Ragi seeds/grains possess excellent storage properties and is said to improve in quantity with storage.
  • Seed can be stored without damage for as long as 50 years. They are highly valued as a reserve food in times of famine.
  • Seed retains viability and vigour better than any other cereal crop with marginal storage facilities in hot humid areas.
  •  On less humid places use fresh gada cloth for short term storage. For long term storage, in humid places 700 gauge ploythene bag may be used and also Ragi grains are stored in metallic tins, earthen grain bins, and gunny bags.
  • Underground pits called hagevu in Karnataka, India were bottle shaped excavations used to store ragi. Ragi seeds resist insect and fungal attacks.

Protection from storage pests

Grain purpose

Dry the seeds adequately to reduce the moisture level to 10%

Seed purpose

Mix one kg of Activated kaolin or Malathion 5% D for every 100 kg of seed. Pack in gunny or polythene lined gunny bags for storage. (Note: Bold and diseases free earheads are collected during the first picking. They are dried and carefully threshed with hand. Either earheads as such or grains are kept for seed purposes)

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Milling


Ragi seed is a challenge to mill because it is very small and because its seed coat is bound tightly to the edible part (endosperm) inside. Moreover, the grain is so soft and friable that conventional milling equipment cannot remove the outside without crushing the inside. However, farmers have long known that moistening finger Ragi (for about 30 minutes) toughens the bran and reduces its grip enough that it can be mechanically separated without crushing the rest.
Ragi can be milled by wet conditioning. It can be steamed followed by milling in a hammer or plate mill or a roller flour mill.

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Mechanical Milling
  • Mechanical milling is of course well known for wheat, rice, and maize, it is a major industry. But for Ragi, this primary step in the commercial processing of a food grain is essentially unknown.
  • Machinery for rubbing the bran (embryo) off ragi has never been available, perhaps through a lack of interest but mainly because the grain is exceptionally difficult to mill by machine.
  • Ragi is usually eaten as whole-grain flour, and the presence of oil in the embryo means that its shelf life is short and its commercial use limited.
  • A machine for doing milling has now been developed in India. This so-called "mini millet mill" consists of a water mixer, a plate grinder, and various sifter attachments.
  • It is a versatile device in which debranning and sizing the endosperm (into either flour or semolina) take place in a single operation. It yields fairly white products. It can also be used to process wheat, maize, sorghum, and pearl millet and will even remove the outer husk from finger millet seeds if the clearance between the grinder plates is reduced.

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Malting


Compared to other millets, Ragi is most suitable from the stand point of product quality and enzyme release for malting. The malted Ragi flour can be used along with germinated green gram flour to formulate a high calorie dense weaning food having excellent nutritional qualities. Ragi flour can be used with milk beverages.

Parboiling of Ragi help in the quality of Ragi dumpling by eliminating its slimy texture. Flour from puffed Ragi has good flavour and can be used in snacks and supplementary foods in South India Ragi is used as gruel, dumpling, roti, dosa or porridge.

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Nutrition


The nutritive value of ragi is better than that of rice and other cereals. Ragi is especially valuable as it contains the amino acid methionine, which is lacking in the diets of hundreds of millions of the poor who live on starchy staples such as cassava, plantain, polished rice, or maize meal.

Ragi grain is rich in calcium, phosphorus and iron, the calcium content is higher than in the common cereals and millets. The major proteins of ragi are prolamins and gluteins and they appear to be adequate in all the essential amino acids. Germinated finger millet is used to make weaning foods for infants.

Nutrition value of ragi grain per 100 g
Composition Grams

Protein

7.30

Fat

1.30

Carbohydrate

72.00

Minerals

2.70

Calcium

3.44

Phosphorus

2.83

Crude fiber

3.66

Ash

2.60

Moisture

13.2

Energy

328 (Kcal)

Iron

4 mg

B Carotene

4 (microgram/100g)

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Uses


  • Ragi is richest source of calcium and iron among other cereals. Therefore, this can be given as ideal food supplement to growing children and aged people who need calcium supplement.
  • Porridge: The small grains—which are usually brown but occasionally white—are commonly boiled into a thick porridge.
  • Bread: Some finger millet is ground into flour and used for bread and various other baked products. All are relished for their flavor and aroma.
  • Malt: Malted finger millet (the sprouted seeds) is produced as a food in a few places. It is nutritious, easily digested, and is recommended particularly for infants and the elderly.
  • Beverages: Much finger millet in Africa is used to make beer. Its amylase enzymes readily convert starch to sugar. Indeed, finger millet has much more of this "saccharifying" power than does sorghum or maize; only barley, the world's premier beer grain, surpasses it.
  • Fodder: Finger millet straw makes good fodder—better than that from pearl millet, wheat, or sorghum. It contains up to 61 percent total digestible nutrients.
  • Popped Products: Finger millet can be popped. It is widely enjoyed in this tasty form in India.
  • The leaf juice has been given to women in childbirth.
  • Ragi is a folk remedy for leprosy, liver disease, measles, pleurisy, pneumonia, and small pox.
  • Weight conscious individuals can use it. By eating ragi preparations, the constant desire to eat will be limited, reducing the daily calorie intake.

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Products


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Extruded Products


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Ready to Use Products


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Delicacies


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Sweets and Savouries


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Health Drinks


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Extruded Products


Ragi Noodles

Extrusion cooking because of its low cost and continuous processing capability has been accepted as one of the most useful technologies during the recent years in the field of food processing.
Ingredients

  • Refined wheat flour – 70 g
  • Ragi – 30g
  • Water – 30 ml
  • Salt – 2g

Method of preparation

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Ragi Vermicelli

Ingredients

  • Refined wheat flour – 30 g
  • Whole wheat flour – 40g
  • Ragi – 30g
  • Water – 30 ml
  • Salt – 2g

Method of preparation

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Ragi Idiyappam

Ingredients

  • Rice flour – 80 g
  • Ragi – 30g
  • Water – 30 ml
  • Salt – 2g

Method of preparation

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Ready to Use Products


Beverage Mix

Ingredients

  • Ragi Flour
  • Skimmed Milk Powder
  • Jaggery

Method of preparation

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Nutri Mix

Ingredients

  • Ragi
  • Banana and Potato Powder
  • Curry Leaves
  • Cashew Nuts
  • Sesame seeds
  • Cardamom
  • Milk Powder
  • Sugar Powder

Method of preparation

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Delicacies


Ragi Puttu

  • Ragi flour – 2 cups
  • Sugar – ½ cup (quantity can be varied as per choice)
  • Coconut – ½ shell
  • Black Sesame seeds – 1 table spoon
  • Cardamom – 4 no
  • Sesame oil/ghee – 2 tea spoon
  • Salt – pinch

Method

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Ragi Mudde

Ragi mudde is a food item unique to the state of Karnataka, India. It is mainly popular with the rural folk of Karnataka.

Method of preparation I

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Method of preparation II

Ingredients

  • 1 cup of ragi flour
  • Fistful of rice 
  • 1/4 teaspoon of salt
  • 4 cups of water
  • 1 teaspoon of ghee
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Ragi Idli

Ingredients

  • Whole Ragi Grain- 1 cup
  • Idli rice (parboiled) – 1 cup
  • Whole skinned Urad dal – ¾ cup
  • Fenugreek (Methi) seeds -1 tablespoon
  • Salt to taste
  • Oil- to grease idli moulds

Method of preparation

Step1: Washes at least 2 to5 times and soak the ragi for 3-4 hours longer than you soak the rice.

Step 2: Soak rice, whole urad and fenugreek seeds in separate containers for 4-6 hours or overnight.

Step 3: In a wet grinder or a mixie /blender, grind the urad dal till light and fluffy. A test for fluffiness is to keep a bowl of water and drop a tiny pinch of batter.
If it floats, it is light enough.

Step 4: Then add and grind the Ragi grains and Methi and finally the rice. Take care that the rice should not be ground too smooth. It should be of rice rava consistency. Alternatively, you can use rice rava instead.

Step 5: Take the batter in a vessel, fold in some salt to taste and leave it to ferment.
Next morning, lightly stir the well-fermented batter. Grease Idli moulds and steam in a pressure

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Ragi Dosa

Kezhvaragu (in Tamil) or Ragi Dosa is a preparation from Kongunadu’s cuisine. Describing Kongunadu is difficult but you can vaguely think of it as the stretch from Coimbatore, Nilgiris, Pollachi to Erode, Salem and Dharmapuri.

Ingredients

  • Ragi flour – 2 cups
  • Grated Coconut – 1 cup
  • Salt – 1 tsp
  • Fresh Coriander – 3 twigs
  • Curry Leaves – 4
  • Green Chilly – 1 no.
  • Jeera / Cumin – 1tsp
  • Oil – 1 tbsp
  • Water – 4 1/2 cups (approximately, this will vary with how much water the flour soaks)

Method of preparation

Step 1: Soak Ragi flour in some warm water for 15 to 20 minutes

Step 2: Grind the coconut, Green chilly, Coriander, Curry leaves, Jeera and Salt in a blender

Step 3: Add this to the soaked Ragi flour and mix well. Add water to bring to Rava dosa batter consistency.

[Note: This will be somewhere between butter milk and dosa batter or fresh cream consistency]

Step 4: Dust a broad skillet or tawa with 1/2 tsp oil and heat it for 30 seconds. On a high flame pour the batter from outside towards inside to form a round. Cook on a high flame. Turn and cook the other side on a high flame. Reduce flame to low and turn and cook for a minute. Take out dosa on to serving plate.

Step 5: Repeat for remaining batter

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Ragi Kudumulu With Garlic Ghee

Ragi kudumulu is an old classic from Andhra Pradesh, India. Dumplings like kudumulu are prepared with ragi flour and steam-cooked in flavorful kura (curry). The main ingredient of kura in which ragi kudumulu are steamed changes with the seasons. Sometimes the kura is prepared with vegetables, sometimes with meat or a combination. Depends on the cook’s mood and the market prices. Popular in agricultural community, this protein powerhouse is a build or nourishes the muscle-on-the-bone kind of one-pot meal.

Recipe:
Recipe is prepared in three steps.

  • Prepare Ragi dough for Kudumulu.
  • Prepare kura (curry or kurma) for Kudumulu.
  • Prepare kudumulu and steam-cook

Step 1:
Take one-cup ragi flour in a bowl. Add a tablespoon of garlic-ghee puree and quarter teaspoon salt. Stir in a tablespoon of garlic infused ghee. Sprinkling few tablespoons of hot water, make soft dough. Cover and keep it aside for about 15 to 30 minutes. The dough firms up on resting.

Step 2:

  • While the ragi dough is resting, prepare kura for ragi kudumulu. It can be with vegetables (Traditional choice: Indian broad beans, silk squash and ridge gourd).
  • 2 ridge gourds: peel, rinse and cut into ½ inch, big pieces
  • 2 tomatoes and one onion - finely chop to small pieces
    [Note: Kudumulu can be prepared with either vegetable, or meat (chicken or mutton).
  • Heat a tablespoon of garlic infused ghee in a wide, deep-bottomed skillet. Add and toast a pinch each - cumin and mustard seeds. When seeds start to pop, add the onion. Then tomatoes. Add about a cup of water and cook the tomatoes to mush on high heat.
  • While tomatoes are cooking, prepare the kura masala: For kura masala: Two tablespoons of grated coconut, 4 green chillies and an inch of peeled ginger, two cloves, one inch cinnamon, a teaspoon each - coriander seeds and cumin. Take them all in a mixer. Add a pinch of salt. Blend to fine consistency.
  • Tomatoes will be cooked to soft by now. Mush them by pressing with a sturdy spoon. Add the ridge gourd pieces and the masala paste to the skillet. Also, half teaspoon each- turmeric and salt. Stir in another cup of water. Close the lid and simmer on medium-low heat. 

Step 3:

  • While kura is cooking, quickly prepare Ragi kudumulu.
  • Take the ragi dough out onto a plate. Knead and divide into small, about key lime-sized rounds. Take a round on your palm, and close the fingers around the round to make a fist. The shape changes to cylindrical with conical ends.
  • Compared to the round shape, the kudumu shape will have more surface area exposed, and that would facilitate thorough steaming. Prepare all rounds in this way. You have to make them fast in two to three minutes.
  • Place them one after another neatly in simmering kura. Close the lid tightly, and steam for about 15 to 20 minutes on medium-low heat. Ragi kudumulu have to be cooked properly inside. To test, take one out and cut into half.
  •  A well-steamed one has the color of red soil. (On taste, they should have the comforting texture of a well-chewed bubblegum). Sticky with unique ragi flavor. The size/volume also increases on steaming.
  • Garnish with fresh coriander leaves and lime juice. Serve hot. Until serving time, cover the skillet with tight lid and keep the kura hot on low heat.
  • Place four ragi kudumulu in a wide bowl or plate along with vegetable or meat pieces. Pour the tomato-masala gravy around.

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Ragi Rotti

Ingredients

  • Ragi flour (Finger millet flour) – one 8 oz cup
  • Onion – ½
  • Green chili – 2 to 3
  • Garlic – 3 cloves
  • Cumin seeds – 1 spoon
  • Curry leaves – a sprig
  • Coriander leaves – 3 sprigs
  • Salt – to taste
  • Water – ½ to ¾ cup
  • Oil – to pour on the sides and tops of the rotti

Method of preparation

  1. Finely chop Onion, Green chili, Garlic and Coriander leaves.
  2. Make a thick Ragi batter by adding water to the Ragi flour in a bowl.
  3. Add all the ingredients (Onion, Green chili, Garlic, Cumin seeds, Curry leaves, Coriander leaves and Salt) to the batter.
  4. Heat dosa pan. Season the dosa pan with little oil.
  5. Once the pan in hot enough, take a small amount of batter in your palm and pat them slowly and flatten them to make round shaped rottis. If it is difficult for you, place a handful of batter on dosa pan and spread it into round shape or any shape you like. Be careful while you spread the batter on the pan. Reduce heat if necessary.
  6. Leave oil around edges of the rotti. Once it is cooked on the down side and flip it to the other side. Cook well on both sides.

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Ragi Adai

Ingredients

  • Ragi flour – 2 cups
  • Big onion – 1
  • Red chillies – 3 to 4
  • Jeera – 1 teaspoon
  • Ground Nut – 2 tablespoon (Coarsely powder it)
  • Mustard – 1 teaspoon
  • Urad dhal – 1 teaspoon
  • Asafotida – a pinch
  • Oil for frying
  • Salt – 1 teaspoon or as per taste
  • Curry Leaves - few
Method of preparation

  1. Put the ragi flour in a big bowl. Add salt, chopped onion, red chillies broken into small pieces, jeera, ground nuts (coarsely powdered) and mix well.
  2. In a kadai, put one teaspoon oil and when it is hot, add the mustard and when it pops up, add the urad dhal and fry till it turns golden brown.
  3. Add asafetida and curry leaves. Add this seasoning to the flour.
  4. Sprinkle water little by little and make a soft dough (should be thicker than adai batter and softer than chapatti dough). 
  5. Heat a tawa and grease with oil. Keep the flame on medium.
  6. Take an orange size dough and put it on the tawa.
  7. Wet your fingers in water and gently press the dough and spread it round.
  8. Pour one teaspoon oil around the corners. Cook on medium flame till turns it colour.   
  9. Turnover and cook other side also.

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Sweets And Savories


Ragi Halwa or Ragi Manni

Ingredients

  • Ragi flour – 100g
  • Powdered sugar – 100g
  • Ghee – 100g
  • Cardamom powder – 1 pinch
  • Cashew nuts – 10g

Method of preparation

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Ragi Pakora (Finger Millet Friters)


Ingredients

  • Finger millet flour(Ragi) - 1 cup
  • Onion - 1
  • Garlic - 3 cloves
  • Cumin seeds - 1 spoon
  • Red chili powder - 1/2 spoon
  • Salt - to taste
  • Oil - 1/2 to 1 cup(to deep fry)

Method of preparation

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Ragi Biscuit

Ingredients

  • 2 cups ragi flour
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 1 cup butter
  • 1/2 tea spn cardamom powder
  • 1 tea spn baking powder

Method of preparation

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Ragi Murukku

Ingredients

  • Ragi flour - 1 cup
  • Besan flour - 1 cup
  • Rice flour - 1/4 cup
  • Cumin seeds - 1 tspn
  • Pepper powder, Chili powder and Salt - to taste
  • Oil - to deep fry

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Ragi Vada

Ingredients

  • Ragi flour : 2 cups
  • Curry Leaves : 1 stick
  • Onion : 1 big chopped fine
  • Red chillies : 3
  • Ginger : 1 inch piece
  • Cumin seeds : 1 tsp
  • Peanuts : ½ cup
  • Oil : to fry
  • Salt : to taste
  • Chilli Flakes : to taste

Method of preparation

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Ragi Eggless Cake

This sweet is to increase the nutritive value of the goodies we make. The Ragi cake was moist and delicious.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup of refined flour
  • 1/2 cup of Ragi flour
  • 1/2 cup of sugar
  • 1 tsp. Baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp of Baking soda
  • 5 tsp. of thick curds or Yogurt
  • 1/4 cup of oil
  • A pinch of salt
  • 1 tsp. of Cinnamon powder
  • 3-4 tsp. of Chocolate syrup
  • A few nuts of your choice

Method of preparation

Step 1: Sift the two flours and add baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon in it.
Take another vessel and add sugar and oil in it. Whisk it till the sugar is dissolved.

Step 2: Pour the curd and the chocolate syrup into it and mix it lightly. Add a few nuts of your choice.

Step 3: Add this liquid mixture to the dry ingredients and gently stir it with light hands for 7-8 times. Pour the batter into the baking tin.  Sprinkle a little of granulated sugar over the batter.

Step 4: Grease a baking tin, by using the Jelly mold for this cake.  Preheat the oven to 180°C for 10 minutes keeping the baking vessel inside the oven.Take out the hot vessel from the oven carefully and pour the prepared cake batter into it.

Step 5: Bake the Ragi cake for 30 minutes at 180°C . Remove from the oven and check the baked cake by inserting a knife or tooth pick into it. If it comes clean than the cake is baked.
Keep the cake out for 10-15 minutes to cool down before slicing it.

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Ragi Laddu

Ingredients

  • 1 cup Ragi Flour.
  • 1/2 cup melted ghee.
  • 1/2 tspn cardamon powder.
  • 3 tbspn milk/cream.
  • 1 cup powdered sugar

Method of preparation

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Health Drinks


Ragi Malt

Ragi malt is popular as poor man’s or farmers health drink because of ready availability, low prices for the grain and nutritious, filling quality.

Recipe: for two cups

  • 1 tablespoon of ragi flour
  • 1 glass of water or milk
  • 2 tsp of sugar or powdered jaggery
  • 1/2 tsp of powdered cardamom

Method of preparation
Step1: Take the ragi flour in a cup. Add half glass water slowly. Combine to smooth, lump free paste. Do not add the flour directly to boiling water, it will clump into lumps 

Step 2: Take one glass of water or milk in a vessel. Preparing this drink with milk alone is too rich, so add few drops of milk to water

Step 3: Heat till the water reaches boiling stage. Then add the dissolved ragi flour solution slowly to the boiling water (milk), continuously stirring with a spoon. This will prevent the formation of lumps. If you add the flour mix to water before the boiling stage, the flour will separate and it won’t be suitable to drinking. You have to throw it away, so wait for water (milk) to start boiling, and then add the flour mix. This step is very important in preparing the good ragi malt

Step 4: Add sugar or jaggery per your taste and pinch of cardamom (Elachi) powder.

Step 5: Reduce the heat to medium level, and simmer the ragi malt for 5 minutes, stirring in-between. Turn off the heat.Let it cool to warm, and then pour into a glass or cup

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Ragi Sprouts Porridge

Ragi Sprouts Porridge is also an diet food and highly nutritious meal for babies.

Ingredients

  • Ragi – 1 cup
  • Wheat grains – 1 cup
  • Green moong dal – 1 cup
  • Almonds – 2 to 3
  • Pinch of green cardamom powder

Metho of preparation

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Ragi Soup (Kezhvaragu Kanki)

Ingredients

  • Ragi flour - 2 spoons
  • Water - 2 cups
  • Curd - 1/2 cup
  • Salt - to tast

Method of preparation

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Ragi Morekozh

Ingredients

  • Ragi maavu ( finger millet flour) - 100gm
  • Moremilagai - 2
  • Sour buttermilk - 200 ml
  • Mustard - 1/2 tsp
  • Salt - as required
  • Oil - as needed

Method of preparation

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