Vegetable khichdi

 Ingredients:

• Rice – 2 cups
• Carrot – 2
• Beans – 10
• Grated cabbage – 1 cup
• Green gram – 1 cup
• Peas – ½ cup
• Cinnamon – a small piece
• Cloves – 5
• Green chili – 3
• Cumin seeds – 1 tsp
• Mustard seeds – 1 tsp
• Ginger garlic paste – 1 ½ tsp
• Onions – 3
• Turmeric - A pinch
• Garam masala – 1 tsp
• Edible oil – 1/3 cup
• Salt to taste

Method of preparation:

·        Soak rice and green gram for about an hour.

·        Grate onions, carrots and beans.

·        Add some edible oil in a cooker and place the cooker on a stove.

·        When oil gets heated, add cumin seeds and mustard seeds and fry.

·        Add cinnamon, green chilies, ginger garlic paste, turmeric and stir.

·        Add vegetables and peas and cook under low flame.

·        Add rice and green gram and fry for some time.

·        Add 4 cups of water.

·        Add salt.

·        Cook until the cooker sounds four whistles.

·        Vegetable Khichdi is ready.

Serve hot with sambar or kurma.

Alternate names of khichdi are

khichdi, khichri, khichdee, khichadi, khichuri, khichari,khitchdee, kichchadi, khichadi, and so on.