Khichdi with onion and garlic!
Khichdi is an authentic recipe and has its own ingredients and a unique method of preparing.
While I believe in experimenting a lot with almost all of my recipes, I never felt the need to do that with the rice and dal khichri. I always felt it was not worth it and since I did not want to loose the original taste and flavor of the real khichri, which my grand ma, mother and aunts used to make, I never really did anything with that recipe.
But at the same time, like you all know.. I strongly believe that COOKING IS AN EXPERIMENT.
So this time round I thought why to leave this recipe from experimenting. Why not try something with the original recipe so that I have something that is a variety of the original khichadi recipe. And that is what I did in today’s recipe.
Though I won’t say that the experimented khichdi is more tasty than the real khichdi which my mom makes, I can safely say that both khichdi has it’s own tastes and both tastes real good.
This recipe has a nice aroma and a flavor of garlic which gives it an altogether different taste. So enjoy the recipe.
Ingredients
- Rice – 2 cup
- Masoor Dal – 1 1/2 cup
- Onion – 2 thinly sliced
- Tomatoes – 2-3 chopped
- Ginger – 1/4 tbsp
- Garlic – 1 full finely chopped
- Bay leaf – 2 nos
- Turmeric powder – 1/4 tbsp
- Coriander leaves – handful finely chopped
- Ghee – 3-4 tbsp
- Cumin Seeds – 1 tsp
- Whole Dry Red Chili – 2 nos
- Salt – as per the taste
Instructions
- Heat oil in a pan/kadhai and fry masoor dal until the nice aroma comes.(keep stirring in between to avoid getting it burnt)
- Once done turn off the flame and let it cool down.
- Now wash dal and rice together.
- In a pressure cooker add rice, masoor dal, turmeric powder, tomato, ginger, bay leaf and salt.
- Add the water as per needed and close the lid.
- Cook this mixture until one whistle and then turn off the flame. Do Not release the pressure.
- Let the pressure cooker cool down by itself.
- Open the lid of the cooker.
- Now take a big open mouth vessel add the cooked rice and dal mixture to it.
- Heat water in a small vessel.
- Add it to the cooked rice and dal mixture as per the required consistency.
- And let it boil on a medium flame stirring in between.
- In the meanwhile heat ghee in a pan.
- Add cumin seeds and the broken red chilli to it.
- Fry until brown.
- Add the chopped garlic and saute for few minutes.
- Now add the sliced onion and fry until golden brown.
- Add the chopped coriander leaves and saute for few seconds.
- Add this tempering to the rice dal mixture and mix well.
- Serve hot along with and coriander chutney, spoonful of ghee pickle, papad or any side dish of your choice.
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