Foodie Tadka: Plain Khichadi

Foodie Tadka: Plain Khichadi: "Khichdi Today, I will share my khichdi recipe. There are normally two type..."

Plain Khichadi

Khichdi

            Today, I will share my khichdi recipe. There are normally two types of khichadi that can be prepared one simple and the other one is spicy masala khichadi. Khichdi is a very common and favourite dish of many Gujarati families and now not only Gujarati families but it has started being popular all over the world. So, lets see how easy is to make the plain khichadi that can be spiced up with any vegetable recipe of your choice.

Ingredients

1 cup jasmine rice or any Chinese rice is fine

½ cup split moong daal green one

¼ tablespoon salt

½ teaspoon turmeric

½ tablespoon clarified butter or ghee

Pressure cooker

Method

1)      Take the rice and split moong daal mix it and wash it properly for about 3 times with normal water.

2)      Place it in the pressure cooker and add all other ingredients salt, turmeric and ghee

3)      Make sure to add up to half of your index finger water on top of the rice and daal level.

4)      Place it on high flame and let the first whistle blow and then bring it down to medium for about 7-10 minutes while blowing two more whistle.

5)      Depending on the type of the pressure cooker you use when you turn the flame on medium you, might have to blow whistle by your self.

6)      After turn the stove off and wait for 15 minutes before you open the cover, it gives time to settle down.

7)      Open the cover and it’s ready to serve, next time depending on the consistency you like you can add more or less water.

Tips

1)      This is the plain khichadi and it can be accompanied by yogurt curry and cooked vegetables .

2)      Some of the vegetables that can be cooked with plain khichadi are potato and eggplant, onion and potato, green tuvar and potato etc.

Recipes for all these nice vegetables are coming soon………..so lease keep coming back to my blog and support it…….till next time enjoy this recipe.

Spicy masala khichadi will be the next recipe…………..:)

Spicy Sooji (UPMA)

Spicy Sooji (UPMA)

Hello,

            First I want to wish everyone a Very Happy New Year, may this New Year bring new beginnings for you, lots of luck, happiness and stay healthy. Since it is a brand new beginning for all of us, I thought today I‘d give a nice healthy breakfast recipe. Though this once I eat for any time of the day, it feels me up for sure.

            There are many variations to this recipe as well, but today I will give a quick version as I know living away from our country and working full time it is hard for everyone to spare the time that they actually would wish to spend cooking. I will also add some other variations that can be done to this recipe in my tips section.

Ingredients

1-cup sooji (cream of wheat – coarse)

½ cup beated yogurt or ¾-cup buttermilk

½-cup water

1 small onion sliced or diced

1 green chili finely chopped

1-tablespoon urad dal (black gram without skin)

1-tablespoon chana dal (yellow split peas)

1-teaspoon mustard seeds

2 tablespoons peanuts

5-6 curry leaves

Pinch of turmeric

Pinch of hing (Asafoetida)

2 tablespoons of oil

Salt to taste

Method

1)      Take a pan to medium heat and put oil in it.

2)      Once the oil is heated, add ingredients in the increment of 5 seconds, urad dal, chana dal, mustard seeds, curry leaves, hing, and peanuts. Wait until tempered properly.

3)      Add green chilies, onion and sauté them till translucent. Then add turmeric.

4)      Add sooji, roast it, until turns light pink, and give nice aroma. At that point, add salt to it.

5)      Now turn the flame to low and add the yogurt or buttermilk while stirring it and then add water.

6)      Turn the flame back to medium and keep stirring until it starts getting thick. Turn the gas off right before you think you got the consistency you want. Its ready t serve hot.

Tips

1)      You can garnish it with cilantro

2)      You can always add other vegetables as per your liking. Some that are commonly used are green peas, carrots, green peppers, tomatoes etc. Add these vegetables after you sauté the onions usually.

3)   You can add rasins and cashews for garnishing.

Try and Enjoy until next time..........for Khichadi recipe...:)