One Pot Vegan/Vegetarian Rice and Lentils Dish - Khichdi
- Reviews 2
Ready In: 8 mins
Serves: 3-4
Ingredients
- 1⁄2 cup basmati rice (white)
- 1⁄2 cup mung beans (yellow split variety)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 teaspoon turmeric
- 1 teaspoon cumin seed
- 2 sticks cinnamon
- 2 cloves
- 1⁄2 teaspoon asafoetida powder
- 1 red chili (optional)
- 1 cup mixed vegetables, chopped (frozen or fresh, use firm veggies only like carrots, peas, greenbeans) (optional)
- 1 potato, quartered (optional)
- 2 tablespoons ghee or 2 tablespoons butter or 2 tablespoons vegan margarine
Directions
- Wash mung and rice together in a few changes of water. Place in pressure cooker.
- Put sufficient water in the pressure cooker, in my cooker i use 2 cups of water for the 1/2 cups rice and 1/2 cup mung).
- Put all other ingredients in, except for cumin, ghee, chillies and asafetida.
- Cook for 3 whistles (roughly 5 minutes after cooker has gained full pressure).
- Let it cool down, and you can do this by running the closed cooker under cold water to facilitate faster cooling.
- Heat ghee in pan, add chilli and cumin and asafetida, fry for a few seconds and mix into khichdi.
- Serve.
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