Restaurant Style Dal-Khichdi

Source : Wash And Soak All 3 Dals In Warm Water For 30 Minutes After 30 Minutes Of Soaking Wash Rice And Keep Aside While You Prepare And Chop Your Vegetable...

PreTime
more Minutes
CookTime
a few Minutes
Yield
Some Servings

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at : April 26, 2026

Step:

  1. Wash and Soak all 3 dals in warm water for 30 minutes.

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  2. After 30 minutes of soaking, wash rice and keep aside, while you prepare and chop your vegetables.

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  3. Add the chopped onions and tomatoes. Crush, green chilli, ginger and garlic.

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  4. In a pressure pan heat oil. Add cumin and mustard seeds. Add hing, crushed chilli, ginger, garlic, onions and cook.

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  5. Once onions looks cooked, add tomatoes and saute until soft. Add all the spices leaving salt.

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  6. Add soaked and drained the water of the dals, and add washed rice and mix.

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  7. Add salt as per taste.

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  8. Add 4 1/2 cups water.

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  9. Close the lid of the pan and take 2 whistles.

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  10. Let the pan cool naturally. Mash and mix with a ladle.

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  11. Add 2 cups or more water to get desired consistency of the khichdi. Add chopped coriander leaves and mix.

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  12. Prepare tempering, add ghee to a small kadhai. Add cumin seeds and roast. Add hing and dry red chillies and roast.

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  13. Add Kashmiri red chilli powder, turn off the flame immediately. Mix the chilli powder with ghee.

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  14. Add this tempering to the khichdi.

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  15. Serve hot.

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Ingredients

  1. For Khichdi-
  2. 1 cup rice
  3. 1/2 cup toor dal/ split yellow lentil
  4. 1/4 cup masoor dal/ split red lentil
  5. 1/8 cup chana dal/ split chickpea lentil
  6. 2-3 tablespoons oil
  7. 2 onions chopped finely
  8. 2 tomatoes chopped finely
  9. 2 green chillies
  10. 4-5 garlic cloves
  11. 1/2 inch piece of ginger
  12. 1 teaspoon Cumin seeds
  13. 1 teaspoon Mustard seeds
  14. 1/8 teaspoon Hing/ aesafoetida
  15. 2 teaspoons Red chilli powder
  16. 1 teaspoon Garam masala powder
  17. 1 teaspoon Cumin powder
  18. 1 teaspoon Coriander powder
  19. to taste Salt
  20. 2-4 tablespoons chopped coriander leaves
  21. For Tadka-
  22. 3 tablespoons ghee
  23. 1/8 teaspoon Hing/ aesafoetida
  24. 2 teaspoons Cumin seeds
  25. 4-5 dry red chillies
  26. 2 teaspoons Kashmiri red chilli powder

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