Moong dal khichadi - comfort food for lunch or dinner

Moong Dal Khichadi - power packed lunch or dinner recipe


Quantity - for 2 people

Ingredients:
Yellow Moong dal split(dhuli hui) - 1/2 cup
Rice (white sona masoori rice) - 1 cup 
Ginger - finely grated 1 inch
Green chillies - 2/3 finely chopped
Onion - 1 small (optional)
Green peas - 1/2 cup
Any other veggies - french beans , carrots , potato (as per choice and optional)
Salt - as per taste
Homemade ghee- for cooking
Cumin seeds - to temper
Mustard seeds - to temper
Haldi - to temper
Hing - to temper
Water to cook - 2.5/3 cups

Appliance Needed:
Instant Pot

Procedure:

1. Wash moong dal and rice together and can soak in enough water for 10-15 minutes
2. In the meanwhile , finely chop green chillies , onion and any other veggies if you are adding
3. Heat the instant pot in saute mode and add ghee to heat up
4. Once ghee is hot , add tadka items - mustard seeds , cumin seeds , haldi, hing , grated ginger, green chillies . Fry the tadka well and add onions and pinch of salt to sweat the onions
5. Once the onions are translucent , add peas and other veggies and turn off the insta pot . Ensure here that bottom of the pot does not get burnt - keep stirring in saute mode
6. Now drain the dal + rice mixture nicely and add it to the instant pot . Stir everything well and adjust any salt
7. For 1.5 cups of dal + rice , add around 2.5/3 cups of water and start the instant pot in manual mode setting for 5 mins and high pressure
8 . Once done , gently mix everything well - add some more ghee if needed .

Serve hot with papad + pickle + fresh dahi/yogurt !

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