This masala khichdi with lots of vegetables makes a great dish and a good weekend meal. You can use any vegetable of your choice. This is a healthy choice even for kids.
Ingredients:
Raw rice - 1 1/2 cups Whole Moong dal - 1 cup Onion - 2 vegetables (carrot, beans, potato, cauliflower, peas) - 1 cup Tomato - 1 Ginger & Garlic paste - 1 tbsp Water - 5 cups To temper: Oil - 3 tbsp Cloves - 2 Cinnamon sticks - small stick Bay leaf - 1 Cardamon - 2 Method: In a skillet, fry whole moong dal for 5 minutes in a medium flame. Soak with rice for 15 to 30 minutes and drain the water with the help of a strainer. In a pan, heat oil add all the ingredients given to temper. Put green chilly, onion, ginger & garlic paste stir for 2 minutes. Add all the vegetables one by one. put turmeric powder. Cook on a medium flame for 5 to 8 minutes. Stir in the rice and whole moong dal for 2 to 3 minutes. Add water and transfer to a pressure cooker and cook for 15 mins or till soft. Serve with papad or plain curd. Note: You can use any type of rice, even basmati rice tastes good. If you want it too mushy add more water. Sending it to Erivum Puliyum for Sangee's Show Me Your "Hits" - Iron Rich Foods event.
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