Vegetable Khichdi
Vegetable Khichdi

Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, vegetable khichdi. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Vegetable Khichdi is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Vegetable Khichdi is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook vegetable khichdi using 20 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Vegetable Khichdi:
  1. Take 1 and 1/4 cups rice
  2. Prepare 1/2 cup toor dal
  3. Get 1 medium sized potatoes
  4. Take 1 medium sized Onion
  5. Take 1 medium sized tomato
  6. Prepare 1/4 cup green peas or chickpeas
  7. Get 1/4 brinjal (optional)
  8. Prepare 4 tbsp oil
  9. Make ready 1 inch cinnamon stick
  10. Take 3 cloves
  11. Take 1 green chilli
  12. Get 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
  13. Make ready 1 tsp mustard seeds
  14. Make ready 1 tsp jeera/cumin
  15. Take 1 pinch asafoetida powder
  16. Prepare 1 tsp (+/-) Chilli Powder
  17. Get 1 tsp dhanajeera powder
  18. Get 3 tsp salt
  19. Make ready 1/2 tsp garam masala or 1tsp khichdi masala
  20. Take 1.250 ml water

In its traditional form, Khichdi consists of mung beans (moong dal) or lentils, cooked with rice (or buckwheat), vegetables and mild Indian spices and can vary greatly depending on the region. It is considered one of the most healing meals in Ayurveda because it is tri-doshic; balancing all three doshas. Vegetable Multigrain Khichdi This delicious one-pot dish is high in protein and fiber! Traditionally, khichdi is made with basmati rice and mung beans.

Steps to make Vegetable Khichdi:
  1. Wash and soak Dal rice for an hour atleast. Cut vegetables. Make ginger garlic paste. I added green chillies as my chilli powder is quite mild.
  2. Heat oil in a cooker. Crackle mustard seeds, then add jeera and asafoetida. Add ginger garlic paste, fry and then add onions. Let the onions be translucent and then add all the vegetables.
  3. Add spices in the vegetables, mix well and let them fry till oil oozes. Add 1 ltr water. Bring water to bubble boils. Adjust seasoning if needed. Add Dal and rice.
  4. Turn off the heat. Cover with a plate and let it rest until 15 min before serving. You'll see that the rice grains are cooked and dal is puffed.
  5. Heat the remaining 15 ml water to khichdi, combine and close the cooker. Let it release whistle once or twice on medium to low flame. Turn off the flame and let the cooker cool down on it's own.
  6. Serve khichdi with fresh curd, achar, onion and papad.

This modified recipe incorporates brown rice, and other whole grains and adds a generous serving of vegetables. Plain khichdi is made with the combination of rice, lentils, salt and wonder spice turmeric powder. Plain khichdi is very bland in taste. Whereas, this vegetable masala khichdi is a healthy but spicy variation of simple rice khichdi. This a medley of vegetables, dal, chawal, and flavorful spices.

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