How to Make Appetizing Spinach khichdi

How to Make Appetizing Spinach khichdi Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Spinach khichdi. Kitchari or Khichdi is a nourishing, porridge-like Indian comfort food that makes an easy to digest, healthful meal. This variation to the simple dal khichdi is loaded with fresh spinach (Palak in Hindi) for added nutrition and flavor boost, making it a complete meal. Khichdi has always been our family's favorite food.

It is a very nutritious, filling and a comforting meal.

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Khichdi is a dish prepared in almost every household in South Asia.

You can cook Spinach khichdi using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Spinach khichdi

1. It’s 1/2 cup of rice.

2. Prepare 1/2 cup of pink lentils (masoor dal).

3. You need 1 cup of spinach puree ( blanched and pureed.

4. You need 1 of chopped small onion.

5. It’s 5-7 of choppped garlic cloves.

6. Prepare 1/2 tsp of turmeric powder.

7. You need 1/4 tsp of cumin seeds.

8. It’s 1 tbsp of ghee.

9. It’s to taste of Salt.

It is primarily made of rice and lentils but can also be prepared with different variations.

Spinach or Palak Khichdi is a one-pot meal of Yellow split gram and rice.

It is tempered with spinach, onion, tomatoes and aromatic herbs & spices.

It is easy to prepare and is as healthy and light on the stomach.

Spinach khichdi step by step

1. Wash and soak rice and lentils for atleast 20 minutes..

2. Then add salt and turmeric powder to it. Add 3 cups of water i.e.,1:3 ratio (1 cup rice-dal, 3 cups of water). Pressure cook Khichdi..

3. Heat ghee, add cumin seeds, once they splutter, add onion, garlic and saute them..

4. Further add spinach puree and salt and cook for a couple of minutes..

5. Add cooked khichdi, mix well. Cook for 2-4 minutes on a slow flame. Then turn off the heat. You can add green chillies in spinach puree if you want spicy..

6. Serve hot with papad, curd etc..

In this Palak Khichdi recipe, the addition of spinach gives a lot of nutrition boost to the recipe.

Spinach Khichdi: Easy, quick, one nutritious pot meal made with a pressure cooker.

It's effortless to make when you pressed for time but makes a healthy wholesome meal for your baby & whole family as well.

Super Easy ONE POT comfort meal - Creamy One Pot Spinach Lentils & Rice ( Spinach Khichdi) is a super easy comfort food that needs NO meal prep and comes together in no time.

A great weeknight option, packed with healthy spinach and lentils & KID APPROVED!