Toor Dal with rice khichdi (Arhar dal khichdi)

Toor Dal with Rice khichdi
(Rice and Arhar Dal khichdi)

Toor dal (Arhar Dal) khichdi is a mixture of rice and Toor dal cooked together in spices. When you do not have any vegetable at home and you want to eat something quick light and nutritious, khichdi always come to mind.

Khichdi is an easy to digest and quick to make healthy Indian food. Each home has its own version of khichdi and each of them is delicious. It can be spicy or rich or plain bland dish, made with a single lentil or combinations of 2-5 lentils.

Toor Dal Khichadi is a great option for quick dinner any night of the week. Toor dal khichdi is usually served with pickle and plain yogurt.

Ingredients:

½    Cup rice
½    Cup Toor dal (Arhar dal)
1    Teaspoon cumin seeds
½   Teaspoon turmeric powder
1     Pinch of asafetida (Hing)
1 Whole red chili- break it half
1½ Teaspoon salt or to your taste
1     Teaspoon vegetable oil
2    Cups of water

Ingredients for hot chili tadka:
(optional tadka)

2   Teaspoon red chilies powder or crushed red chilies
2 Tablespoons melted butter or Ghee.

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Toor Dal (Arhar Dal)

Rice

Cumin seeds

Salt

Water

Asafetida (Hing)

Red dry chili

Turmeric powder

Oil

Ingredients for hot chili tadka:

Red chili powder

Butter-melted

Directions:

1. In a bowl mix Rice and Dal and wash, changing water several times until the
water appears clear and then soak the dal and rice in 3 cups of water for 10 to
15 minutes.

Mix Dal and Rice together

Wash Dal and rice well

Soak Dal and rice in water

2. Once Dal and Rice are soaked, carefully pour out the soaking water and wash
the rice and dal in several changes of water, until water runs clear. Keep them
aside.

Wash and rinse- soaked Dal and rice

Soaked Dal and rice

3. In a pressure cooker heat the oil, add cumin seeds and asafetida and fry them
for 2 to 3 minutes or until they become brown.

In a pressure cooker add Oil ,cumin seeds and asafetida

Fry cumin seeds and Asafetida

4. Add whole broken red chili and fry them, they will become brown in less than ½ minutes.

Add whole broken red chili and fry

5. Now in the pressure cooker add soaked Rice and Dal.

In the pressure cooker add soaked Dal and rice

6. Add 1½ cups of water, salt and turmeric powder and mix, close the lid of the
pressure cooker and place the weight on it and cook on medium heat.

Add water

Add turmeric powder

Mix turmeric powder

Add salt and mix

Close the Pressure cooker

7. In about 7 to 8 minutes pressure cooker starts steaming, turn the heat down and
let it cook for 3 to 4 minutes and turn the heat off (different brand of cooker
required different time to cook)

8.Once the steam of pressure cooker goes down open the cooker. Check it if Dal
and Rice are cooked.

Open the Pressure cooker

Check if Dal & Rice are cooked

9. If dal is fully cooked then place the lid on pressure cooker and close it and let
the khichdi stand for 10 to 15 minutes. If khichdi looks little watery, do not
cook to dry the water, because rice and dal absorb lot of moisture.

Place the lid on cooker & close it

10. Open the Pressure cooker and with a fork gently fluff the khichdi. Fluffing is
a great way to avoid the grains from sticking to each other and gluggy. This
will help to aerate the khichdi and remove any lumps, leaving you with light
and fluffy Khichdi. In Toor dal khichdi rice and dal do not blend together they
stay like pulao.

Khichdi settle down

With a fork fluff Khichdi

Toor Dal with Rice Khichdi

11.  Serve Arhar dal khichdi (Toor dal khichdi) hot with yogurt and pickle of your
      choice. If you like to spice up the khichdi sprinkle some hot Chile tadka over
      khichdi (see below for hot chili tadka)

Toor Dal with Rice Khichdi (Arhar Dal Khichdi)

Tips:

1. Cook khichdi in pressure cooker otherwise it takes too long to cook khichdi.

2.   If the rice and dal are fully soaked then you need to add less water for
     cooking.

3.   If you are cooking in sauce pan it takes longer to cook and require more water.

4.   If you like you can also garnish khichdi with butter or ghee.

Direction for hot Chili Tadka: Tadka

In a small pan (tadka pan) heat 2 tablespoons ghee or melted butter add crushed
red chilies or red chili powder and fry them for a minute or less turn the heat
off.

In a Pan add Butter or Ghee

Add red chili powder and fry

Please take the time to let me know what you think about my recipe. Your comments would be helpful to me to improve the recipe.

Thank you.

Geeta Seth

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