Palak Khichadi

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.