Millets | This restaurant in Chennai serves a spread of millet dishes, South Indian and continental

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Millets | This restaurant in Chennai serves a spread of millet dishes, South Indian and continental

Millet set meal combo at Millet Magic Meal
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An electronics engineer by occupation, 50-year-old S Adhieswari, had all the time nurtured a ardour for cooking and in 2015 she launched her first cloud kitchen in Mylapore, focussing solely on millet-based meals preparations. “Very quickly, there was a fan following for dishes ready in our kitchen and shortly I used to be sending out 85 lunch combos on a regular basis, and, at present, we pack over 250 lunch packing containers,” says Adhieswari.

Kodo millet schezwan fried rice

Kodo millet schezwan fried rice
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Lately, she has launched a dine-in restaurant in Anna Nagar, the place one can style a spread of millet primarily based recipes, proper from dosa to pizza, paniyaram to brownies, all made utilizing numerous forms of millets. “My focus in all the time on wholesome dwelling and consuming. So I present solely thogayals and have completely eradicated pickles in our restaurant. Preserving the well being of youngsters and aged in thoughts, savories are fried in chilly pressed coconut oil. I supply murukku that’s infused with beetroot and carrot juice,” she says.

Millet chocolate brownie

Millet chocolate brownie
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We began out meal over there with a lunch thali, that comes with ragi roti, sambar rice, coriander rice, rasam rice, curd rice and two vegetable preparation. All of the gadgets on this thali may also be ordered a la carte.

“Most households don’t adapt to millets as they don’t seem to be aware of the cooking process. Subsequently most find yourself overcooking them after which hand over. I actually perfected the artwork of cooking millet rice to perfection after many trails and errors,” says Adhieswari.

Peanut podi idly made with Barnyard millet

Peanut podi idly made with Barnyard millet
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Other than Sounth Indian lunch menu, the restaurant presents modern dishes toattract the youthful technology. Their podi idlis to millet pizza appears to go nicely with the kids. Over right here, they provide gluten-free merchandise in addition to dietary necessities for all age teams. Adhieswari’ has expanded her staff by brining in a pastry chef who specialises in millet-based baking. “Initially I used to be cooking each merchandise within the kitchen, then I steadily started to coach girls and at present, they run the present beneath my supervision, and we work in groups.”

Tempted, we ordered the millet margarita pizza. The bottom was product of combined millet flour and had a nutty flavour and smooth texture. All of their pizzas, brownies and cookies are gluten-free. “I’ve began baking the savories as it’s more healthy and we lately launched wraps additionally, which is once more gluten-free,” she says.

For dessert we have been spoint for alternative and eventually settled for Elaneer payasam, Thinai Payasam, and Millet brownies, the winner was thinai payasam, with its refined flavour of karupatti and ghee, carefully adopted by brownies. “We’ve an excellent variety of younger workplace going crowd that come right here for lunch and dinner, and we be sure that the menu is diverse every day in order that there is no such thing as a repetition of dish or greens. Our USP is the big selection of millet dishes on our menu that appeals to all age teams,” Adhieaswari says.

Millet Magic Meal, Anna Nagar, is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, is open from 7 am to three pm and 6 om to 10 om. Meal for 2 will price Rs 800. Cellphone: 996250228