- 1) Wash the Dalia along with moong and masoor dal 3-4 times properly. Drain off the excess water and keep it aside.
- 2) Heat ghee or refined oil in a pressure cooker. Add bay leaves, crushed cardamoms and dry red chilli. Now add the chopped onions and fry them until they turn light golden brown.
- 3) Now add the strained dalia and moong- masoor dal. Fry them for a minute. Then add turmeric, chopped carrot and diced potatoes. And again fry for 2-3 minutes.Then add ginger and garlic paste and again fry them for another minute.
- 4) Finally add water as required and salt as per taste and close the lid of the pressure cooker and let it whistle for 4-5 times. Let the whistle go off on its own.
- 5) Finally, make a tempering. Heat a small pan add 1tsp of ghee and then add Nigella seeds, Garlic cloves, red chilli and curry leaves and temper them for a minute to get a nice tempering for the khichdi.
- 6) Take out the hot khichdi in a bowl and add the burning hot tempering on top and enjoy the extremely delectable and healthy dalia khichdi as breakfast or lunch or dinner.
Dalia Khichdi
By Nazia Sultana
May, 25th
988
Servings
4 persons
Cook Time
15 minutes
Ingredients
14
- 16
Ingredients
- Dalia 1 cup
- Moong dal 1/4 cup
- Masoor dal 1/2 cup
- Chopped onion 2 medium size
- Ginger paste 2 tsp
- Garlic paste 1 tsp
- Turmeric 1/2 tsp
- Bay leaves 2-3
- Crushed cardamoms 4-5
- Dry red chilli 2
- Nigella seeds 1/4th tsp
- Garlic cloves 4-5
- Ghee/ Refined oil 2 tbs
- Curry leaves 3-4
- Chopped Carrot 1
- Diced potato 1
Instructions
Notes/Tips
Serve and eat the khichdi immediately to get it's ultimate taste. Also eat it with pickle of your choice.. I have taken sweet and sour mango pickle to accompany the delicious dalia khichdi.
