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Palak khichadi is a very easy and simple recipe. This can be a perfect one dish meal after a long tiring day. It has goodness of palak, dal and rice. This is healthy and light on stomach. You can try palak khichadi at home and write to me. You also can like, share and subscribe.
Ingredients
For Cooking Rice:
- 1/2 cup Rice
- 1/4 cup split Moong dal
- 1/4 tsp Hing / Asafetida
- 1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1 1/2 cup Water
For Palak Gravy:
- 1 cup Finely chopped Onion
- 1/2 cup Finely chopped Tomato
- 2 cups Spinach leaves
- Few chopped Green chillies (Optional)
- 1 tsp Garam masala
- 1 tbsp Oil
- Salt to taste
- 1 1/2 tsp Coriander powder
- 1 tsp Red chili powder
- 1 tsp Ginger-Garlic paste
For Tadka:
- 1 tbsp Ghee
- 1 tsp Cumin seeds
- 1 tbsp Chopped Garlic
- 2~3 Dried Red chillies
Instructions
For Cooking Rice:
- In a cooker take rice and dal.
- Wash rice and dal really good 2-3 times.
- Add water, turmeric powder, hing and salt.
- Mix well and close the lid of cooker.
- Cook on medium heat until 2 whistles.
For Palak Gravy:
- Wash palak really good and transfer it into blender jar.
- Add a little water and green chillies.
- Adding chillies is optional. You can skip it if you don’t want khichadi spicier.
- Blend the palak into puree.
- Heat up oil in a pan.
- Add onion and fry on medium heat until it turns nice golden for about 5 minutes.
- When onion gets light golden color add tomato, ginger-garlic paste, red chili powder, garam masala, coriander powder and stir well.
- Cook for about 4-5 minutes until tomato is cooked nice and soft.
- Add palak puree, salt and mix well.
- Cook on medium heat for about 8-10 minutes until palak is well cooked.
- Open the cooker and add water in cooked dal rice.
- Take a whisk and beat the cooked rice and dal really good.
- Add the rice and dal into cooked palak.
- Stir well and cook on medium heat for about 5-6 minutes.
- For Tadka:
- Heat up ghee in a tadka pan.
- You can use oil or butter instead of ghee.
- Add cumin seeds, garlic and dried red chillies.
- Cook for about a minute until garlic turns deep golden.
- Add tadka in palak khichadi and mix well. Dal khichadi is already.
Notes
- You can use any type of rice to make dal khichadi.
- If you don’t want khichadi too soft or mushier then reduce the quantity of water in dal and rice.
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