Mixed Daal Khichdi

Pooja M. Pandit
Pooja M. Pandit @pan_poo_

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Daal Khichdi is a traditional rice preparation using various daals and rice with an aromatic tempering. You can find umpteen number of recipes for this on the net. Nowadays, this dish is available in almost all restaurants too! It has a subtle taste and is good for digestion, especially if a person is sick. Though at such times, less spices should be used.

For preparing the daal khichdi, some use yellow moong daal or green split moong daal or even just toor daal. In this recipe, I have used a combination of three daals and tempered the khichdi twice! This gives it a wonderful flavour! The daal khichdi is cooked to a mushy consistency and is quite different from any pulao or biryani. I have added a few green peas and carrots to it, though other vegetables as per choice can be added too. This just increases the health quotient of the khichdi.

Mixed Daal Khichdi

#riceisthebest
Daal Khichdi is a traditional rice preparation using various daals and rice with an aromatic tempering. You can find umpteen number of recipes for this on the net. Nowadays, this dish is available in almost all restaurants too! It has a subtle taste and is good for digestion, especially if a person is sick. Though at such times, less spices should be used.

For preparing the daal khichdi, some use yellow moong daal or green split moong daal or even just toor daal. In this recipe, I have used a combination of three daals and tempered the khichdi twice! This gives it a wonderful flavour! The daal khichdi is cooked to a mushy consistency and is quite different from any pulao or biryani. I have added a few green peas and carrots to it, though other vegetables as per choice can be added too. This just increases the health quotient of the khichdi.

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Ingredients

30 min
4-5 servings
  1. 1/4 cup+ 1.tbs Toor Daal (split pigeon peas)
  2. 1 tbspChanaa Daal (split chickpeas)
  3. 1 tbspYellow Moong Daal (yellow skinless split moong beans)
  4. 1 tbspMasoor Daal (split skinless red lentils)
  5. 1/2 cupRaw Rice Grains (Kolam)
  6. 5 cupsWater(For cooking the rice)
  7. 1 cupChopped Onion (1 Large Onion)
  8. 1/4 cupChopped Tomato (1 Small Tomato)
  9. 3/4 cupGreen Peas
  10. 3/4 cupChopped Carrots
  11. 1/4 tspAsafoetida
  12. 1 tspTurmeric Powder
  13. 1 1/2 tspBedgi Red Chilli Powder
  14. 1/2 cupChopped Coriander Leaves
  15. As required Homemade ghee as required
  16. To TasteSalt
  17. For The 1st Tempering :
  18. 2 tbspHomemade Ghee (Clarified Butter)
  19. 1 tspCumin Seeds
  20. 3Cloves
  21. 2Cinnamon Sticks (1″ each)
  22. 1/4 tspAsafoetida
  23. 4Bor Marcha (Small Round Dry Red Chillies)
  24. 6Garlic Cloves Large ones
  25. 1 1/2" Ginger
  26. 3Green Chillies
  27. For The Second Tempering :
  28. 1 tbspHomemade Ghee
  29. 1 tspCumin Seeds
  30. 4Garlic Cloves Roughly crushed
  31. 3Bor Marcha

Cooking Instructions

30 min
  1. 1

    To make the Daal Khichdi, first wash and soak the daals and rice grains separately in sufficient water for about half an hour.

  2. 2

    Drain out all the water and transfer the daals and rice to a pressure pan. Add the mentioned water and asafoetida and cover with the lid. Pressure cook for 6 whistles.

  3. 3

    Open the lid only after the pressure has released naturally. Stir well with a ladle and set aside.

  4. 4

    Grind the ginger garlic and green chillies mentioned in the first tempering, to get a coarse paste.

  5. 5

    In the meantime, heat a saucepan and add the oil for tempering to it. When it heats up, add the cumin seeds, cloves, cinnamon, bor marcha, asafoetida and the ginger garlic green chilli paste. Saute for about half a minute.

  6. 6

    Add the chopped onions and saute till translucent.

  7. 7

    Add the turmeric powder and mix well. Now add the chopped tomatoes, carrots and green peas and saute.

  8. 8

    Cover with a lid and cook till the tomatoes are mushy and the peas are soft.

  9. 9

    Add the red chilli powder, the cooked daal rice mixture and salt to taste. The mixture must have thickened by now.

  10. 10

    Add almost a cup of water and bring to a boil. Check seasoning and adjust salt and spices if required.

  11. 11

    Switch off the flame and cover with a lid.

  12. 12

    Before serving, heat a small kadhai for the second tempering and add the homemade ghee to it.

  13. 13

    When the ghee heats up, add the cumin seeds. As soon as they splutter, add the bor marcha and crushed garlic to it. Saute for about a min and pour it over the prepared khichdi.

  14. 14

    Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and serve the piping hot Daal Khichdi with a dollop of some homemade ghee on the top!

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I am a home cook, and I like to cook traditional as well as fusion food. Learnt to cook by trial and error and lots of experiments, reading cook books and watching cooking shows whether Indian or from abroad! I like to be perfect in my work, and the same applies to cooking as well! I have a blog on WordPress.com https://tastyrecipesfrompooja.wordpress.com/ where I share the recipes of my home cooked food!
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