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Home » BACHELOR COOKING » Dal khichdi recipe (Moong dal khichdi without onion, garlic)

Dal khichdi recipe (Moong dal khichdi without onion, garlic)

November 19, 2014 by Raks Anand 26 Comments /

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I am trying and tasting dal khichdi for the first time. When ever someone says I had dal khichdi for lunch, I will be so so very much tempted to taste. I wanted to try for long time but I had no idea for the recipe. I browsed online too sometime back, but everything had ginger garlic paste, whole garam masalas, which I was imagining myself how it would be if we add all these things to south Indian pongal. But Sangeeta told me a recipe recently and which was very simple and just perfect to suit my taste. I wanted to try for few days but today was the perfect day to try. I think this is a perfect one pot meal for a rainy, lazy day, you can make and have it hot. Kids would love with ghee and its loaded with protien, carbs with added veggies to make you feel full and energized. I will make this often for myself here after.
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Dal khichdi recipe

Recipe Cuisine: Indian  |  Recipe Category: Lunch
Prep Time: 30 mins    |  Cook time: 20 mins    |  Serves: 4

Ingredients

Rice – 1/2 cup


Moong dal – 1/2 cup minus 1 tblsp


Water – 4 &1/2 cups


Mixed vegetables, chopped – 3/4 cup


Turmeric – 1/4 tsp


Salt – As needed


To temper

Oil/ ghee – 2 tblsp


Jeera – 2 tsp


Finely chopped ginger – 2 tsp


Green chilli – 2


Curry leaves – 1 sprig


Tomato – 2


Coriander leaves, chopped – 3 tblsp


Red chilli powder – 1 tsp


Garam masala – 1/2 tsp


Method

  1. Wash and soak rice and dal together for half hour and pressure cook with turmeric, vegetables and 1/2 the salt. Bring everything to boil and close the lid, put the pressure valve after steam comes. Pressure cook for 3 whistles. Make sure you use a big pressure cooker. I used my pot shaped cooker. After first whistle, put the flame to medium.
  2. 1-soak

  3. Finely chop tomato, slit green chillies. Heat a kadai and temper with jeera, ginger, green chilli, curry leaves and give it a stir. Add tomatoes, add remaining salt, red chilli powder, coriander leaves and garam masala.
  4. 2-temper

  5. Fry until mushy and oil separates. By now the rice, dal, veggies will be done. Open the cooker and  mash well.
  6. 3-done

  7. Add the tomato with other masalas we fried, to it and mix well.
  8. 4-mash

Notes

    • I used 5 beans, 1 small carrot and 1/2 cup green peas. You can add potato too.
    • You can skip garam masala too.
    • Keep 1/2 cup hot water ready, if the kichdi is too dry, you can add it and mix.
    • Gives so much volume, so make sure you add salt accordingly.
    • Soaking is really important.
    • You can pressure cook and while its getting cooked, chop the other ingredients needed.

Perfect for a rainy cold day, serve always hot. Tastes great as such, but you can have it with curd, pickle or even dahi kadhi.
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  1. AparnaRajeshkumar

    November 19, 2014 at 8:59 am

    Such a great one pot meal

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  2. Kaveri Venkatesh

    November 19, 2014 at 11:12 am

    Looks very yum

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  3. Unknown

    November 19, 2014 at 3:42 pm

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  4. sumija sukumar

    November 19, 2014 at 6:04 pm

    Made this today for lunch…v all liked it…it tasted yummy! Thanks for easy n yummy receipe Raji! And thx to ur friend Sangeetha too for introducing u this recipe . I thought it would taste like paruppu sadam at first… but i think it's combination of that n ven pongal…my hubby doesn't prefer one pot meal much. He himself told it's Sooo good! 🙂

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  5. meeta asarpota

    November 19, 2014 at 6:19 pm

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  6. lakshmi

    November 19, 2014 at 8:00 pm

    Tried it turned tasty healthy & yummy thanks 🙂

    Reply
  7. Janani

    November 20, 2014 at 1:04 am

    looks so good raks never tried this before got to bookmark this

    Reply
  8. Nagalakshmi V

    November 20, 2014 at 1:31 am

    Love the first pic raji. Visiting your site after so long 🙂

    Reply
  9. kalai vani

    November 20, 2014 at 5:19 am

    This is like sambar satham. May I know the difference

    Reply
  10. Raks anand

    November 20, 2014 at 5:35 am

    Thank you 🙂

    Reply
  11. Raks anand

    November 20, 2014 at 5:35 am

    Thank you 🙂

    Reply
  12. Raks anand

    November 20, 2014 at 5:37 am

    Flavor is totally different, no tamarind, no perungayam and ginger makes it smell different.

    Reply
  13. Sivaranjani N.R

    November 23, 2014 at 4:54 am

    I used kichdi split green moong dal

    Reply
  14. Sivaranjani N.R

    November 23, 2014 at 4:54 am

    Made it, had it, loved it

    Reply
  15. Sridevi C

    November 24, 2014 at 8:57 am

    hi raks tasty dal

    Reply
  16. Sridevi C

    November 24, 2014 at 8:57 am

    Very good tasty

    Reply
  17. Hira

    November 26, 2014 at 12:42 am

    I made this tonight and it was simply fantastic and such a soulful food to eat during cold and rainy season.great work!

    Reply
  18. kalyani

    December 5, 2014 at 1:25 pm

    Made it now and tasted yum..planning to have it for lunch..but worried that whether it will be dry.any quick suggestion to fix and serve hot? Thank you!

    Reply
  19. Raks anand

    December 5, 2014 at 1:28 pm

    Hot boiling water. Make sure to balance the salt.

    Reply
  20. tara divya

    December 19, 2014 at 5:17 am

    hiii we r newly married n im new to cooking im thinking to make this recipe for breakfast will my husband like it can u suggest some more simple recipes which tastes good for lunch?

    Reply
  21. Meenal Ramanathan

    February 13, 2015 at 9:56 am

    Should we use raw rice or normal cooking rice?

    Reply
  22. Raks anand

    February 13, 2015 at 10:04 am

    I used raw, normal also will work

    Reply
  23. Sindhu Sharma

    March 15, 2015 at 3:59 am

    I tried this recipe today and it came out really well and tasted really yumm…
    Many thanks for the recipe…
    🙂

    Reply
  24. Priya Raji

    March 23, 2015 at 12:16 am

    i tried this dal kichdi with ur potato curry recipe and chips it was really amazing and tates great not only this all your dishes are excellent and wonderful ur presentation is mind blowing. you gave a great confidence for me in cooking thanks dear raks anand

    Reply
  25. sushmitha

    January 21, 2016 at 9:01 am

    This can be done with basmati rice also raji..the taste will be different but yummy all the same.

    Reply
  26. Soundaram Karumbunathan

    March 14, 2016 at 12:18 am

    Made this two times in a week already. We loved it! Thank you Raks!

    Reply

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