Vaghareli Khichdi
Gujarati Vaghareli Khichdi Recipe - Healthy, filling khichdi made using rice and arhar dal with addition of fresh tuvar dana and peanuts.
- Prep time
- 15 min
- Cook time
- 20 min
- Yield
- 2 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- ½ cup Short grain rice (or broken rice)
- ½ cup Arhar dal (toor dal or split pigeon peas)
- 2 tablespoons Oil
- ½ teaspoon Mustard seeds
- ½ teaspoon Cumin seeds
- 2 Cloves
- 3 Black peppercorns
- 1 inch Cinnamon stick
- 1 Dried red chilies
- 1 small or ½ cup Red onion (chopped)
- ½ inch Ginger
- 2 cloves Garlic
- 1 Green chili
- 2 tablespoons Peanuts
- 1 medium or ½ cup Tomato (chopped)
- 1 cup Fresh tuvar dana (Green pigeon peas or lilva)
- Salt (to taste)
- ½ teaspoon Turmeric powder
- 1 ½ teaspoons Red chili powder
- 1 teaspoon Coriander powder
- ½ teaspoon Cumin powder
- ½ teaspoon Garam masala
- 2 ½ cup Water (, for cooking khichdi)
Instructions
- 1
Wash dal, rice combined and soak for 15 minutes. After that discard the soaking water.
- 2
Crush the ginger, garlic and green chili into mortar and pestle. Keep it aside.
- 3
Heat the oil in a pressure cooker on medium heat. Once hot add mustard seeds, once they splutter add cumin seeds and let them sizzle.
- 4
Then saute in whole spices (cloves, peppercorns, cinnamon stick, dried red chilil) for 40-60 seconds.
- 5
Then mix in onion, crushed ginger, garlic, chili. Cook till onions are soft and translucent.
- 6
Now add peanuts, fresh tuvar dana and tomatoes. Mix well.
- 7
Add spice powders (turmeric powder, red chili powder, cumin powder, coriander powder, garam masala) along with salt. Mix and cook for a minute.
- 8
Now mix in soaked dal-rice and fresh 2 ½ cups of water.
- 9
Cover with lid, put the weight on and cook for 3-4 whistles on medium heat.
- 10
Then turn off the stove. Once pressure releases naturally, open the lid, mix and serve.