Vaghareli Khichdi Recipe
Gujarati Vaghareli Khichdi is a healthy, easy one pot meal, and a comfort food. This Khichdi recipe is easy to cook, tasty, healthy, light on stomach, quick to make meal for dinner or Lunch.
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Ingredients
- 1/4 cup Split Urad dal
- 1/4 cup Toor Dal
- 1/2 cup Rice
- 1/2 cup Soya chunks
- 1/2 teaspoon Turmeric Powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoon Red chili Powder
- 1.5 teaspoon Salt
- 1/2 teaspoon Garam Masala Powder
- 4 cup Water
For Vaghar/ Temper
- 2 tablespoon Ghee
- 1/4 teaspoon Hing/asafoetida
- 1 teaspoon Cumin
- 1 Green chilies
- 2-3 Whole Red Chili
- 1 inch Ginger (Cut into juliennes)
- 1 teaspoon Kashmiri red chili powder
Instructions
- To make Vaghareli Khichdi, start with soaking and cleaning dal, and rice.
- In a bowl add 1/4 cup split urad dal and 1/4 cup archer dal. Mix the dal using your fingers and pour water in the bowl. Now, wash the dal 3-4 times until the water runs clear.
- In a separate bowl add 1/2cup basmati rice. Wash the rice too for 3-4 times until the water runs out clear.
- For some protein in the khichdi, add soybeans in a bowl and pour hot water in it. Soak the soya chunks in hot water for 5 minutes.
- Now in a pressure cooker add the soaked dals and rice from the bowl.
- After that add 4 cups of water in the pressure cooker. Then add soaked soya chunks in the cooker.
- When you have added the soybeans, add 1/2 teaspoon of turmeric powder, 1 teaspoon of red chili powder, and ½ teaspoon of garam masala powder in the cooker.
- Then add salt to taste.
- To prevent the spilling of water from the cooker, add a teaspoon of cooking oil in the cooker.
- Close the pressure cooker and pressure cook the khichdi for 2 whistles. After this release, the pressure from the cooker and open the lid of the cooker. Allow the khichdi to simmer for a few minutes while stirring in between. Keep it aside.
- Now To make tadka/baghar heat 2 tablespoons of ghee in a tadka pan. (Vegans can use 2 tablespoons of cooking oil here)
- To that add a pinch of asafoetida and a teaspoon of cumin seeds. When the seeds start to crackle add a teaspoon of ginger juliennes (cut the ginger in long thin strips)
- Now add chopped green chili. Stir them once and then add 2-3 broken red chilies,
- And half a teaspoon of red chili powder in the tadka pan.
- Save about 1/4 of baghar and pour rest over khichadi and mix it nicely.
- At the time of serving this baghari khichdi pour rest of the Baghar and enjoy it with a side of papad pickle and dahi.
Rekha's Notes
Recipe Notes and Tips
- You can make many variations for this recipe of Vaghareli khichdi. Change lentils used, add vegetables, use brown rice, add onion tomato masala as per your choice.
- I have made Urad/kali dal khichdi, you can use moong, toor, chana dal or a mix of dals.
- To Make Vegan khichdi, replace ghee with any vegetable oil or coconut oil.
- You can add vegetables of your choice to make it healthier. Carrots, peas, potatoes are great choices of vegetables to add in khichdi.
- Adding Cooking oil while pressure cooking lentils helps to prevent the spilling of water from the pressure cooker while cooking.
- When making vaghar or tadka switch off the heat first before adding red chili powder as it burns quickly. And immediately pour it over khichdi.
Nutrition
Calories: 228kcalCarbohydrates: 29gProtein: 10gFat: 8gSaturated Fat: 5gCholesterol: 19mgSodium: 945mgPotassium: 50mgFiber: 4gSugar: 2gVitamin A: 222IUVitamin C: 1mgCalcium: 60mgIron: 2mg