Think pasta, noodles and cookies and no, you don’t have to think of only refined flour or wheat flour. Millets are now an acceptable alternative when making these foods. This millet makeover story has been facilitated largely because of the significant role played by the Hyderabad-based pioneering institute ICAR-Indian Institute of Millet Research (IIMR) over the past few years.
There is much excitement at this institute in Rajendra Nagar as it seeks to revive the use of forgotten grains into our diets in 2023, the Year of Millets. The G20 Technical Excursion visit, a three-day event from June 15-17 with a delegation from the G20 countries, is currently on at the premises, including stalls displaying ice cream, chikkis, porridge mixes, khakra and laddoos — all made of millets — by 30 startups.
