Khichdi

Photo: flickr user Raveesh Vyas

Ingredients

1 cup rice

1/2 cup green lentil(mungh daal)

5 1/2 teaspoons salt

1/2 teaspoon turmeric

2 cloves

Mix rice and green lentil and soak for at least half hour.

Put them in pressure cooker with rest of ingredients , add 4 times water and set it on high heat .

On 1 whistle , reduce the heat to med . low , keep for 10 min and then remove the cooker from stove.

Wait for pressure release and then serve with clarified butter.

Can also be cooked in microwave , cook for half hour on full heat setting and then cover the bowl and cook for 20 min on medium powerr settings

Permalink Helen Pitlick
April 22, 2009

Mmm... this sounds easy to make, delicious and nutritious! Thanks for the microwave option- I really should invest in a pressure cooker :)

serve with yogurt

1.0 servings

Thursday, December 10, 2009 - 5:53pm

Swati