Millet is a cheap and super healthy choice: high in cruelty-free protein, calcium, and iron. High in magnesium, Zinc, B6 and many other vitamins and minerals, too! A perfect day-starter food!
I have Hungarian and Russian roots, and cottage cheese used to be on our table every single day. As my 60 year old doctor Mom is transitioning to a vegan diet, she went all crazy and creative. She found this recipe and we perfected it :) Enjoy it!
I eat it as a breakfast, it's super fresh and zesty - I love it!
As for me it’s easy, I use a “cup” measurement for this recipe. It’s not an official cup, it’s just a cup I use :) But it’s around 250ml.
The amounts below make enough goodies for 2 breakfasts for 2 people. Cooking time (without supervision) 30-40 min, active cooking time 20 min (plus soaking before)!
Ingredients:
1 cup of millet (pre-soaked)
2 cups plant based milk + 1 cup of water
2 tbsp of semolina (optional, makes it creamier and more similar to cottage cheese, though. As I love the taste of millet, I usually simply leave it out)
1 lemon (both the peel and the juice of it)
1 pinch of salt
2-3 tbsp of sweetener (I used brown sugar)
~ 100g breadcrumbs OR coconut flakes OR almond flour (for the “rolling”)
1-2 tbsp coconut fat for frying of the breadcrumbs
Preparation:
Soak the millet (it's also OK if you can’t but the cooking might take longer) for a couple of hours, and WASH it thoroughly before cooking!
The MAGIC:
1. Wash the millet until the water is clean
2. Dump it to a pan, add the salt, sweetener, milk and water to it. Start to cook. Cook it until its completely cooked and falls apart into a “mash”. Add water or milk if it cooks it away too fast (before it becomes all soft and mushy). Careful! You need to stir it more often as it soaks the water/ milk up.
3. It should slowly become a thick paste, add the Semolina to it.
Cook it until it becomes hard to stir, so very very thick. CAREFUL NOT to burn it! At this point it NEEDS you, so don’t go onto Facebook just yet! :)
4. Take it off the heat, let it cool a bit. (it NEEDS to be somewhat of a formable “play dough” consistency)
5. Wash the lemon, and grate the peel of the lemon it to it, press the juice of it into it, too.
6. Form small balls out of it.
7. Roast the breadcrumbs OR coconut flakes OR almond flour for a bit in the coconut fat
8. Take 5-6 balls of a time and coat the balls by ROLLING them around in the pan (I usually just shake the pan vigorously to coat them from all sides).
9. Voila, you are done!
Just put them in the fridge and they are ready to be eaten with plant-yogurts, puddings, jams, chocolate sauce, etc. etc. They can stand for days in the fridge without going bad. Just keep them in a box, so they will not dry out.
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