Saturday 23 February 2013

Khichdi



Ingredients

  • Rice - 2 glasses
  • Moong dal - half a cup
  • Masoor dal - half a cup
  • Whole cardamom, clove and cinamon - 1 -2 each
  • Onions sliced - 1 big
  • Green chilies slit - 2
  • Ginger garlic paste - 2 tbsp
  • Coriander chopped
  • Pudina (Mint) leaves - few
  • Turmeric pwdr - 1 tsp
  • Tomato - 1 - optional
  • Salt
  • Water
  • Oil - 4 -5 tbsp


Method

  1. In a bowl mix rice and dals, wash them and soak it in water and keep aside. 
  2. Heat oil in a vessel, add cardamom, clove, cinnamon, onions and green chilies, saute them for 5 mins.
  3. Add ginger garlic paste and fry it for some time, add water according to the consistency required to cook rice.
  4. Now add turmeric pwdr, salt, tomato, chopped pudina and coriander.
  5. Once the water comes to boil, add rice, dals and cook.
Khichdi is ready.

FYI: I haven't added tomato while making the above khichdi.

Note: You should add only the rice and dal and not the water in which it was soaked for the last step in the method.

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