Recipe: Appetizing Palak Khichdi Spinach khichdi

Recipe: Appetizing Palak Khichdi Spinach khichdi Delicious, fresh and tasty.

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

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

Khichdi has always been our family's favorite food.

Its also ranks top in my list of comfort food.

You can have Palak Khichdi Spinach khichdi using 20 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Palak Khichdi Spinach khichdi

1. Prepare of For khichdi.

2. It’s 1 cup of yellow moong dal.

3. Prepare 1 cup of Rice.

4. It’s 1/2 tsp of turmeric powder.

5. Prepare to taste of salt.

6. You need 6 cup of Water.

7. Prepare of For Tadka.

8. You need 1 cup of blanched spinach.

9. Prepare 2 of tomatoes.

10. It’s 2-3 of Green chillies.

11. Prepare 1 inch of ginger.

12. It’s 2-3 of garlic cloves chopped.

13. Prepare 1 tsp of red chilli powder.

14. It’s 1/2 tsp of garam masala.

15. Prepare 1/4 tsp of salt.

16. You need 1/2 tbsp of lemon juice.

17. It’s 1 tbsp of ghee.

18. You need 1/2 tsp of cumin seeds.

19. Prepare 1/2 tsp of mustard seeds.

20. It’s 1/4 tsp of hing/asafoetida.

This khichdi is similar to my vegetable khichdi except instead of vegetables, I have used spinach.

It is a very nutritious, filling and a comforting.

Palak khichdi recipe With step by step photos - here is a one pot meal of mung lentils and rice khichdi with spinach (palak) and peanuts.

Easy to prepare as well as healthy and light on the stomach.

Palak Khichdi Spinach khichdi step by step

1. First mix dal and rice put haldi and salt add water and put on gas…cook till 3whistles on medium falme.

2. Make tomato purée by grinding tomato ginger chillies and garlic in a mixer jar.

3. Put blanched spinach in mixer jar and churn to make puree.

4. Heat a pan add ghee cumin seeds hing and mustard seeds.

5. Then add tomato purée and cook for 3-4 mins add all the spices and cook.

6. Then add spinach purée and cook for a boil.

7. Add cooked khichdi and give it a nice mix….

8. Spinach khichdi/palak khichdi is ready..serve with pickle or raita..enjoy..

In this palak khichdi, the addition of spinach and peanuts gives a lot of nutrition boost to the otherwise healthy khichdi.

Palak Khichdi - a one dish meal packed with nutrition and taste.

Palak Khichdi is a perfect balance of carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins and fats because of rice, lentils, spinach and ghee respectively.

The recipe may seem a bit intimidating/time consuming, but it is worth the effort.

Take a look at the recipe: Ingredients. ½ cup rice (chawal) Palak khichdi is a very healthy and tasty khichdi made with rice, moong dal and spinach leaves.