This dish can be cooked as a millet pilaf or a millet loaf of “bread” that is nutty tasting and satisfying for a Thanksgiving main meal!
Overnight Preparation Time
You may want to start soaking the millet the night before you want to make this dish (soak for 8 – 12 hours). The recipe itself takes about 10 minutes to prepare and 15 – 20 minutes to simmer on the stovetop.
Servings: 4 – 6
Ingredients
- 2 cups presoaked millet
- 2 cups water
- 2 tablespoons dried burdock root (you can get organic dried burdock root from www.mountainroseherbs.com) or fresh burdock root, diced
- 1 tablespoon coconut oil
- 2 teaspoons thyme
- 2 teaspoons basil
- 2 teaspoons astragalus powder
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
Directions
- In a saucepan, bring water to a boil.
- Once water is boiling, add soaked millet and reduce heat to simmer.
- Add spices, sea salt, astragalus root powder and burdock root.
- Simmer until millet is completely cooked and the grains are translucent and fluffy.
- Add coconut oil and stir thoroughly. If you are eating this as a millet pilaf, it is now ready to serve with your favorite vegetable side dish.
- If you are making millet loaf, let the cooked millet pilaf sit for 15 minutes to cool. Once cooked, transfer into a greased bread loaf pan and cook in a pre-heated oven at 300°F for 15 minutes.
- Remove from oven and cool.
- Slice like bread, spread on some coconut oil, raw butter or ghee, if you like and serve with salad and cultured vegetables or with a vegetable soup, like the Kale Carrot Soup in Loving Yourself to Great Health.
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