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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.
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Servings 2
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
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Clean and soak rice-lentil in enough water for 30 minutes.
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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.
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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.
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Now add tomatoes and garam masala and fry until tomatoes are mushy. Add this tomato mix with cooked rice and mix it well.
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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.