Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, palak khichdi. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Palak Khichdi is an ideal one-dish meal for such a day. It is healthy and stomach filling too. It is an alternative to boring normal khichdi and is protein packed, also makes a balanced meal. firstly, to make palak dal khichdi slightly spicy, blend green chilli along with spinach. also, adjust the consistency of khichdi to your choice, however, it thickens once cooled. additionally, add peanuts to tempering to enjoy the crunchy bites. finally, palak khichdi recipe tastes great and most healthy recipe for kids. Palak khichdi is a sumptuous and nutritious khichdi made with mung lentils, rice, spinach and peanuts.
Palak Khichdi is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Palak Khichdi is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook palak khichdi using 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Palak Khichdi:
- Get 1 bunch washed & chopped spinach (palak)
- Prepare 1 cup rice (chawal)
- Get 1 cup moong dal (split yellow gram)
- Take 2 tbsp ghee
- Get 1/2 tsp cumin seeds (jeera)
- Make ready 1/2 tsp turmeric powder (haldi)
- Take 1 piece ginger paste (adrak)
- Make ready 2 washed & chopped tomatoes
- Prepare 5-6 curry leaves (Kadi patta)
- Get 2-3 green chilli paste
- Prepare 1/2 tsp garam Masala
- Make ready 1-2 pinch asafoetida (hing)
- Make ready to taste Salt
- Take 3 cup water
The usage can be varied: chopped spinach leaves cooked with potatoes is a semi-wet vegetable with rotis, a few spinach leaves thrown in with mixed vegetables and turned into a soup is lovely on a cold winter night, chopped and blanched spinach makes a different sort of raita, spinach puree can be. Palak Khichdi is an amazingly flavourful and satisfying meal. It is an easy and quick recipe loaded with nutrients without compromising on the taste. One of the best comfort foods, palak khichdi is healthy and filling too.
Steps to make Palak Khichdi:
- Combine rice & dal in a large bowl. Rinse it with clean water for 3-4 times & soak it in enough water for half an hour. Drain the water.
- In a pressure cooker heat ghee & add jeera, adrak & green chilli paste, hing, curry leaves & haldi powder. Saute it for a few seconds.
- Now add chopped tomatoes & palak. Saute it a low flame for 5 min. Then add garam masala & salt.
- Then add water & mixture of soaked dal & rice. Mix it well. Close the lid & pressure cook it for 3 whistles.
- Allow the steam to escape before opening the lid. After opening mash the khichdi with the help of a spoon. If it is not very soft then add little warm water & mash it again.
- Serve hot with ghee on top. Can be eaten with curd or curry.
It is an easy and quick recipe loaded with nutrients without compromising on the taste. One of the best comfort foods, palak khichdi is healthy and filling too. Palak Kichdi is an one pot meal which is a delicious mix of vegetables, dal and rice with a twist. High in protein great for growing kids and easiest way to include your servings of greens for the day. Alternately you can even use quinoa or millets in place of rice to make it even more healthier.
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