HUNGER FIXER

The recipes in this blog, basically of light & healthy North Indian food, are for you if you are a health-conscious person who wants to enjoy low-calorie food without compromising on taste. Majority of the dishes are nutritious and healthy hunger-fixers and certainly NOT party dishes. Most of the recipes are based on one spoon oil concept and are recommended basically for dieters, weight-watchers, diabetics and cardiac patients. Enjoy healthy cooking, enjoy healthy eating!

Sunday, 12 January 2014

73. KHICHDI (VER 02) - URD DAAL (खिचड़ी)

INGREDIENTS

1. Basmati Rice 1 cup

2. Black Urd Daal (Split) 1/2 cup

3. Salt 1 tsp ( or as per taste)

4. Haldi (Turmeric Powder) ½ tsp

5. Sonth (Ginger Powder) ½ tsp
6. Moti Saunf 1tbs

7. Desi Ghee ( Clarified Butter) 2 tbs

8. Jeera ( Cumin Seeds) 1 tsp

9. Lal Mirch (Red Chilli) Powder ¼ tsp

10. Heeng (Asafoetida) ¼ tsp

METHOD

1. Soak Daal and Rice for ½ hour and drain the water.

2. In a heavy bottomed vessel, put daal, rice, salt, turmeric powder, ginger powder, moti saunf and 3.25 cups of water. Also add 1 tbs oil/ghee.

3. Let it come to a boil, reduce the heat to minimum, cover with a lid and let it cook till it is done. Keep stirring in between.

4. Heat ghee in a small fry pan, add jeera, heeng and chilli powder and quickly pour over khichdi before serving.

ACCOMPANIMENTS

Pickle, Papad, Chutney and Curd.

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