Foxtail & Little Millet Rice (Thinai, Saamai, Ivaigalin Saadam)🔗

粟米或小米饭

Foxtail, Little or Kodo Millet (any one of these) - ½ padi 粟米/小米/鴨乸草 (任選一樣) Clean the millet by pounding and winnowing. 舂搗篩揚小米︒

Water - 1¼ padi 淨水

Take a 2 padi water capacity vessel and boil 1¼ padi of water in it. Add the cleaned millet to the boiling water and stir. Close it with a lid. Check if the millet is ¾th cooked; then remove from the firewood stove and mix it well.

用一個能装 2 padi 的容器盛1¼ padi 水,煮沸︒加入乾淨小 米,攪拌︒蓋上鍋蓋︒當米¾分熟時,從爐灶上取下並攪 拌均勻︒

Now keep the millet covered on live coal (from burnt firewood) for 5 minutes. It can then be served. 把蓋上蓋的小米飯在(燃木而成的)活性炭上燜5分鐘︒ 隨後即可盛用︒

Amongst these, whole unhusked little millet can also be boiled, then made into rice and cooked, just as rice prepared from boiled paddy.

粟米類中,未脱殼的小米,也可以煮後製成半熟米再行烹 製,就像可以用煮稻穀的方式製蒸穀米一樣︒

粟

Corn - 1 padi 玉米

Clean the corn by pounding and winnowing. Remove and place it in the Ural (large pounding mortar). Then sprinkle padi Pound it well. Then separate the grits and flour using a sieve. If there is whole corn in the grits, take that alone and pound again using padi water and repeat the process till there is no whole corn left. Now separate the grits and the flour.

Corn Rice Or Pudding (Chola saadam allathu kali) 玉米饭/玉米布丁

舂搗篩揚玉米粒︒將其連同 padi水倒入Ural(搗穀臼) 中搥細,用篩子篩分顆粒和穀粉︒若有完整顆粒,將其分 揀,再次和入 padi水,重複以上步驟,直至穀粒全碎︒ 再將玉米粉與粗碎玉米麵分開︒

Take 2 padi of water in a 3 padi water capacity vessel and boil it. Add the corn grits when the water starts to boil, mix well and cover the pot.

取 2 padi 淨水盛入一個能装 3 padi 的容器中︒當水開始沸 騰,加入玉米碎,攪拌,蓋上蓋子︒

After a few minutes, When the grits are ¾th cooked, add the flour and stir. Care should be taken to see that no lumps are

原料 玉米 淨水 Corn Water 1 padi 3 padi Ingredients

Ural 搗穀臼

formed. Stir it twice or thrice every 2 minutes. Then keep the rice or pudding on the live coal (from burnt firewood) for half an hour. Stir again, remove from the stove and serve.

幾分鐘後,當玉米碎 ¾ 分熟時,加入玉米粉並攪拌︒悉 心拌,避免結塊︒每 2 分鐘攪 2 到 3 次︒將做好的穀飯或 玉米布丁置於(燃木而成的)活熱炭上半個小時︒再次 攪拌,從爐灶上移開,盛用︒

There is also the practice of grinding the corn in a hand stone grinder into grits and flour, and then cooking it.

實踐中另一種做法是用手磨石 盤把玉米磨成粗粒與細粉,然 後再行烹飪︒

hand stone grinder 手磨石盤

Pearl Millet Flour - 1 padi 珍珠粟粉 Beat and pound the pearl millet until the husk is separated and remove the husk by winnowing. Just as corn is pounded into grits and flour by sprinkling water, do the same for this too. 舂搗珍珠粟直至外殼剝落,揚穀去殼︒像製玉米麵一樣,

灑水搥粟,直至搥成粗和細粟粉︒

Take 2 padi of water in a 3 padi water capacity vessel and boil it.

取2 padi 淨水,倒入一個3 padi容量的容器中,沸煮︒