Meet India’s 15-year-old Millet Propagator

This 15-year-old YouTuber wants to bring millets back on the Indian dining table. And he’s doing it by making YouTube videos.

Transcript

00:002 minute mantra, I want to increase awareness and educate the urban population about the

00:28different ways we can consume millets and the benefits of consuming millets.

00:41So I started cooking from a very young age, my mother encouraged my brother and I to cook

00:46a meal once a weekend and this was to show us the amount of effort which would go into

00:51cooking a fresh meal.

00:57So my friends, we create the dishes and bring them to school as lunch.

01:20In arid regions such as North Karnataka, farmers are trying to grow crops such as rice

01:26which require a lot of water instead of growing crops such as millets which do not require

01:30a lot of water.

01:31Now that my milk is boiling, I am going to put the laghi vermicelli into it.

01:36We have been stirring this vermicelli on simmer for about 5 minutes.

01:43Now we are going to add our sugar and cardamom powder.

01:47You have to keep stirring it for 2 minutes.

01:50Ok now I have been stirring it for 2 minutes continuously, I am going to transfer this

01:55to my bowl and garnish it with fried cashew nuts and raisins.