One Pot Vegan/vegetarian Rice And Lentils Dish - Khichdi

Total Time: 8 mins Preparation Time: 2 mins Cook Time: 6 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 3
• 1/2 cup basmati rice ()
• 1/2 cup mung beans (yellow split variety)
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon turmeric
• 1 teaspoon cumin seed
• 2 sticks cinnamon
• 2 cloves
• 1/2 teaspoon asafetida powder
• 1 red chili (optional)
• 1 cup mixed vegetables, chopped (frozen or fresh, use firm veggies only like carrots, peas, greenbeans) (optional)
• 1 potato, quartered (optional)
• 2 tablespoons ghee or 2 tablespoons butter or 2 tablespoons vegan margarine

Recipe

• 1 wash mung and rice together in a few changes of water. place in pressure cooker.
• 2 put sufficient water in the pressure cooker, in my cooker i use 2 cups of water for the 1/2 cups rice and 1/2 cup mung).
• 3 put all other ingredients in, except for cumin, ghee, chillies and asafetida.
• 4 cook for 3 whistles (roughly 5 minutes after cooker has gained full pressure).
• 5 let it cool down, and you can do this by running the closed cooker under cold water to facilitate faster cooling.
• 6 heat ghee in pan, add chilli and cumin and asafetida, fry for a few seconds and mix into khichdi.
• 7 serve.