Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, bengali style khichdi. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Bengali style khichdi is aromatic and also laden with veggies and dal. In short, it is a flavoursome and power-packed meal. The use of crushed spices instead of whole or powdered ones brings about a significant change in the recipe - you will notice it when you prepare the khichdi.
Bengali style khichdi is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Bengali style khichdi is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook bengali style khichdi using 17 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Bengali style khichdi:
- Take 1/2 cup leftover rice
- Take 1/2 cup split mung dal
- Get 1/2 inch chopped ginger
- Prepare 1 small chopped tomato
- Get 1 green chilli
- Take 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- Make ready 1/2-3/4 tsp red chilli powder
- Get 1/2 green peas or 1 to 1.5 cups of chopped mix vegetables like cauliflower
- Take 1 inch cinnamon (dalchini)
- Prepare 1 green cardamom
- Prepare 2 cloves
- Take 1 bay leaf
- Get 1 tsp cumin powder
- Take 1 tbsp ghee or oil
- Take 1 tsp sugar
- Prepare 1 tsp Salt
- Make ready 3 cups Water
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Steps to make Bengali style khichdi:
- Rinse and soak rice in water for 30 mins. Take a pan and slow roast the moong dal till some of the lentils turn light golden and aromatic.Keep stirring to get uniform roasting and browning.When the lentils cool, rinse them in water. Sprinkle some water on them and keep aside.
- Heat ghee or oil in the pressure cooker.First fry the whole spices till they become aromatic, cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, bay leaf and cumin,then add the chopped ginger and saute for a 5-6 seconds.Add turmeric, red chilli powder and saute for 2-3 seconds,then add the tomatoes and green chilies and saute till the tomatoes become soft add the chopped veggies - potato and peas.Stir and saute for a minute add the roasted moong dal and saute for 2 minutes. - Add the drained rice and stir well.
- Pour 5 cups water and add salt and sugar stir and then pressure cook for 4-5 whistles on medium to high flame. - once the pressure settles down on it's own, open the lid of the cooker. serve the bengali khichdi with bringal fry or Yoghurt and some roasted papads by the side.
Moong Daler Khichuri is a delicious one pot Bengali style meal cooked with rice,moong dal (yellow lentil) and vegetables. The specialty of this Khichdi is the rice used in it. It's special rice which is known as "Gobindo bhog" and is jam. Bengali Khichuri (Bhoger Khichuri) Moong Dal Khichdi ~ traditional and famous Durga Puja khichuri/khichdi made using roasted moong dal, rice, veggies, spices, and ghee. It's a healthy Indian comfortfood that's extremely delicious and immunity booster too.
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