At “Millets Kitchen”, Secunderabad

     

When anyone wants to give a party, one generally thinks of modern delicacies and dishes like biriyani, Manchuria,nan, paratas burgers, pizzas and  spicy and oily preparations. But with public health awareness growing, many have now switched to eating healthy, nutritious foods with less oil content and spices. Scientifically speaking also Indian food has more starch content without much fiber and minerals. In earlier days people included all types of cereals like ragi, jowar , pearl millets and foxtail millets which gave them sufficient energy to carry out their activities. Now millets have become a favorite recipe for many who realized their nutritious values.

 Recently during my stay at Hyd, I chanced to go to a restaurant quite near our residence  called  “Millets Kitchen”, a purely vegetarian restaurant with nutritious and healthy dishes prepared in hygienic conditions.This casual dining restaurant is located besides Bank of India, 5^th Avenue, Sainikpuiri, Secunderabad. At the entrance we saw a narrow corridor decorated with colored bulbs and bluish illumination. Though the restaurant is not so spacious it looked very tidy and impressive with framed pictures of millets and menu charts. We went to A.C. section and ordered thalis so that we can taste more number of food items prepared with different types of millets. The executive millet thali costs Rs.170/- and the maharaja thali costs Rs.210/- comparatively less expensive when compared with those of other restaurants. We tasted kaju fried rice made of foxtail millets, ragi sankati, millet tamarind rice, and six varieties of rotis, all made of millets like proso (varagu), foxtail millet(korralu), pearl millet(sajjalu) and ragi. All types of tiffins and meals are made of millets along with ordinary varieties also. So the customer is free to choose either millet variety or normal type of tiffins and meals. Just to name a few , there are items like millet idli, millet upma, millet pongal, millet bajji, millet vada, millet dosas, millet payasam (porridge),millet biryani etc.

 We find a very wide choice of delicious and healthy types of refreshments which nourish our health without any harmful effects. Our choice proved to be a very good one and we came out with a sense of satisfaction. A good health drink made of nannari (herb called Sarasaparilla) is also available here along with other normal cool drinks, ice creams and beverages. The staff are quite courteous and well-mannered and their services are also prompt.

 This restaurant was started last year. In future they wish to set up many branches in other parts of the city.  Their way of preparing with millets both North Indian and South Indian dishes is a very novel and good concept and will be very beneficial to public health also. This restaurant is open on all days of the week and the timings are 7.30 a.m. to 10.30 p.m. The menu changes every day to add more variety to tiffins and meals. Facilities like free parking space, home delivery, wheel chair are available.

 In Secunderabad there is another millet restaurant called “Granny’s Millets & Grains” at Naya Kranthinagar, High Tension Road, A.S.Rao Nagar.  In Hyderabad there is “Aahaar Kuteer” in Begumpet and “Ahobilam Foods—organic Cave” near Meridian School, Madapur. You can try there if you are a lover of millet food and wish to improve your health too. By the bye this year is declared as “the Year of Millets “by the Union Government following a request by Karnataka, which is the country’s leader in the millet sector.

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18th July, 2018
  
Somaseshu Gutala