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To promote the culture of eating millet, Members of Parliament will be served rotis made of ragi and jowar. (Shutterstock)
Dessert was Millet Chocolate Pudding and Big Apple Millet Bundt Cake. the meal ended with petit fours
From ragi and jowar rotis to bajra and jowar khichdi and bajra kheer, a special ‘millet onlyMembers of Parliament are waiting for lunch. To top it all, special chefs have also been brought in from Karnataka to make Ragi specialties like Idli and Ragi Dosa. Tuesday’s Gala Luncheon is part of an initiative by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi To mark the “millet year”.
To promote the culture of eating millet, Members of Parliament will be served rotis made of ragi and jowar. years Cited its sources. The United Nations has declared the year 2023 as the International Year of Millets (IYOM) following the initiative of PM Modi.
A glimpse of the effort was recently seen in New York when External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar hosted a five-course millet luncheon that was attended by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and members of the Security Council.
Jaishankar told reporters before lunch that he hoped to “acquaint the members of the Security Council” with “all the virtues of millets”.
The meal was prepared at the Pierre Hotel, a part of the Tata group Taj Hotels, by executive chef Ashar Biju, who bills himself as a “craftsman of perishable art” and shows how the humble millet, even That many types of dishes can also be prepared from chocolate. cake.
It began with an appetizer of winter cereal and kale salad made from millet, watercress, kale, green apple, avocado and radish with puffed rice and orange dressing.
Choices for main courses were paneer pasada consisting of ragi and makhani tomato sauce; Roasted Branzino Masala with Millet Porridge and Malabar Coconut Sauce, and Roasted Malai Chicken with Porridge and Khorma Sauce.
They were served with millet and sprouted dal poha, sweet corn and millet fritters with sweet potato chutney, cucumber raita and Indian bread.
Dessert was Millet Chocolate Pudding and Big Apple Millet Bundt Cake. The meal ended with petit fours.
government of India In April 2018, millet was notified as a nutritious grain and millets have also been included in the Poshan Mission campaign. Nutritious grain component for millets is being implemented in 212 districts of 14 states under the National Mission on Food Security (NFMS).
Asia and Africa are the primary production and consumption centers of millet crops. India, Niger, Sudan and Nigeria are the primary producers of millet. Sorghum and proso millet (common millet) are the most commonly grown millets in 112 and 35 countries, respectively.
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