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Vegetable Masala Khichdi Recipe

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Vegetable Masala Khichdi is an ultimate comfort food which is made with rice and yellow lentil. You can spice up this dish by adding some vegetabales and home grounded masalas. Khichdi is a complete dish in itself and you easily serve it with some curd, papad or pickles. You can easily prepare khichdi in a pressure cooker. I would have never thought of adding this recipe in my blog and a special thanks to Ayesha Clough who wrote a very kind email to me asking for the recipe. It is so good to hear from your readers with feedback and recipe requests. It keeps me motivated to blog and recipe requests gives ideas to prepare my next blog post. 

I also prepared this dish today as I’m not feeling well.  I have added minimum spices but you can add more chilli or garam masala as per your taste. So, sharing the Vegetable Masala Khichdi recipe and wish you all a great week ahead.

 

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Vegetable Masala Khichdi Recipe

 

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Vegetable Dal Khichdi

Dal khichdi is a comforting one-pot meal which you can easily cook in a pressure cooker. It is prepared with rice and yellow lentil and you can add your choice of vegetables to make it more nutritious.
Course Main Course
Cuisine Indian
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Servings 2
Author Priya Shiva

Ingredients

  • Rice - 1/2 cup
  • Moong dal/yellow lentil/split green gram – 1/4 cup
  • Green peas – ½ cup
  • Carrot – 1 chopped
  • Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
  • Homemade Garam masala - 1/2 tsp
  • Salt - As needed
  • Ghee - 2 tbsp
  • Cumin seeds - 2 tsp
  • Finely chopped ginger - 1 tsp
  • Green chillies – 1 chopped
  • Onion – 1 finely chopped
  • Tomato – 1 finely chopped
  • Curry leave - 1 sprig
  • Coriander leaves for garnishing

Instructions

  1. Clean and soak rice-lentil in enough water for 30 minutes.
  2. Drain the water and pressure cook soaked rice-lentil with 3 cups of water, salt, peas, chopped carrots and turmeric powder. The rice should get mushy and well cooked.
  3. Heat a frying pan, add ghee and temper with cumin seeds, ginger, green chillies, onion. When onions turn translucent, add curry leaves and give a quick stir.
  4. Now add tomatoes and garam masala and fry until tomatoes are mushy. Add this tomato mix with cooked rice and mix it well.
  5. Drizzle some warm ghee, garnish with coriander leaves and serve.

Recipe Notes

Add more water if you feel its too thick after rice has been cooked. Khichdi is usually mushy and soft. Adjust spices according to your taste.

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Comments

  3. Ayesha says

    Priya, you were so kind to email me your recipe right away! I’m glad it inspired this post for all the parents out there with sick babies. My son, my mum and the whole family enjoyed the khichdi last week! I do hope your little boy feels better soon. Hugs to both of you xx

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