North Indian cuisine-----Healthy Moong Dal Khichadi [Green Gram Dal Rice]

This is a very healthy,nutritious,easy rice dish.Its a very good kids/baby food too.Green Gram dal is very healthy pulse.the basic recipe of moong dal khichadi is nothing but cook moong dal and rice together adding little ghee and salt while cooking.this plain khichadi also tastes good and we used eat with achar or some curry.My Massi(mom's sister)taught me this recipe of chatpati khichadi.  when you are not feeling well this dish is very good to prepare as it is easy to digest and gives you energy to recover.
Ingredients:
  • 1 cup Rice
  • 1/2 cup Green Gram dal (moong dal)
  • 1 carrot grated
  • 1/2 onion chopped(optional)
  • 1/4 Capsicum cut into small size(optional)
  • 1 potato cut lengthwise
  • 4-5 french beans(optional)
  • 2tbsp Ghee
  • 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
  • 3-4 green chilies cut lengthwise
  • 1" ginger chopped
  • coriander leaves
  • 1 big/2 small tomatoes(optional)
  • lemon juice according to your taste
  • salt
  • sugar(optional)
  • for masala
  • 1tsp jeera(cumin seeds)
  • 1 tsp back pepper
  • seasoning
  • ghee
  • 1 tsp jeera
  • 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
  • 1/4 tsp asafoetida(hing)
  • curry leaves
  • 1 red chili pieces
  • 1 tsp cashew pieces
Method:
Wash rice and moong dal together.
Soak in just enough water to cover for 5 minutes off water and keep aside.
Peel and wash carrot and potato.grate carrot and cut potato into half sized lengthwise.
Wash tomatoes,capsicum ,onion and cut into half inch sized dices.
String ,wash and cut french beans into half inch sized pieces.
Take a pan dry roast jeera and black pepper .dry ground them into powder.
Take washed and cleaned pressure cooker.heat the pressure cooker without water.
Put ghee and all seasoning ingredients.
when mustard starts spluttering add  onion stir fry for 1 minute then add all vegetable and masalas,salt,sugar and again stir fry for 1 minutes.
Now add rice ,dal and stir for 1 more minutes.
Finally add 3-4 cups of water and mix it properly.close the lid of the cooker and put whistle on.
Let the cooker takes 3 whistle time and after that 5 more minutes on slow flame.
when cooker is cooled off remove the lid when all pressure is gone from the cooker.
Your chatpaty Khichadi is ready,Garnish with coriander leaves,ghee and lemon juice.
I like my Khichadi to be sticky and mushy.But you can add little less water and the khichadi will be like palav.enjoy.

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