Dal Khichadi – Marathi Recipe

Instructions

• In cooker take dal and rice.
• Wash it with water really good 2-3 times.
• Add hing, turmeric powder and salt to taste.
• Add water and mix well.
• Close the lid and cook on medium heat until 3-4 whistles.
• Heat up oil in a pan.
• Add mustard seeds and let them pop up.
• Add onion and fry until it turns nice golden.
• Add tomato, ginger garlic paste, red chili powder, coriander powder, green chillies and salt to taste.
• Be careful while adding salt as we already have added salt while cooking the dal and rice.
• Fry for about 4-5 minutes until tomato is cooked and is mashed well with onion.
• Take the cooked khichadi and mash it really good.
• Add water to adjust the consistency and mash again.
• When tomato is cooked add the mashed khichadi in the tadka.
• Mix well and cook on medium heat for about 4-5 minutes.
• Heat up ghee and add cumin seeds.
• When cumin seeds splutter, add curry leaves and dried red chillies.
• Mix well and add tadka on dal khichadi.
• Adding ghee tadka is optional. You can skip it.
• Dal khichadi is already.
• You can serve this dal khichadi with lots of ghee, mango pickle and papad.