Tizan is a very authentic breakfast pudding or porridge served at every Goan home.
You can fortify the first meal of your busy days with this nutritious easy to make recipe, made with finger millet also called as ragi/nachani.
You never know what the day holds and what you may end up eating when you are either busy running errands, or giving your 200% at a full-time job or for that matter doing endless other things throughout the day.
So my advice would be keep a jar of roasted and ground ragi flour handy, so that you can make this recipe in a blink and it will keep you energetic through all of the above.
A pretty easy dish prepared with an addition of coconut milk, Goan palm jaggery and nuts if you do fancy. Usually, cashew-nuts are added.
Finger Millet Flour – Homemade
Goan Tizan – Ragi Pudding
Ingredients:
- ½ cup ragi / nachni /finger millet flour
- ½ cup water
- ½ cup Goan palm jaggery or yellow jaggery
- 1½ cup coconut milk
- ¼ teaspoon salt, or to taste
- ½ tsp of nutmeg and cardamom powder
- A few broken cashew-nuts
Method:
- In a pan add the ragi flour, palm jaggery, water and whisk well. Ensure there are no lumps.
- Then, add the coconut milk and salt. Mix well.
- Cook the mixture on a low flame stirring continuously until it thickens. This should take a 4-5 minutes.
- Add the cardamom and nutmeg powder stir well.
- Remove the pot from heat transfer to individual serving bowls.
- Top with nuts and serve warm.
Tizan could be also served as porridge, with your choice of nuts. It has a thinner consistency than the pudding. The recipe remains the same.
Handy Tips :
- Keep stirring else the ragi mixture will get lumpy.
- In case for any reason you want to avoid jaggery, you can replace it with date puree too and drizzle some honey before serving.
- I make the finger millet flour at home from scratch. Process includes washing the grain, sun-drying it, roasted it and finally grinding it twice over to make a fine flour.
- You could fortify the flour even further, by sprouting the ragi and then following the above process.
- It is the best food for lactating mothers and hence they should make this porridge a part of their diet.
