veg khichdi recipe is a complete meal itself and gives you plenty of energy, protein and folic acid. Khichdi is a porridge made of rice and any lentil/dal of your choice. This is a one meal dish and every time consuming too. Vegetable Khichdi is an ultimate comfort food which is made with rice and yellow lentil. Khichdi with yellow Mung dal/lentil tastes delicious. Khichdi with yellow moong dal is most popular among all its kind. To make this dish spicy you can add vegetables with home grounded masalas. Khichdi is a complete meal and goes well with some Fried Vegetables, Ghee/clarified Butter, curd, papad or pickles. By using a pressure cooker You can easily prepare khichdi very quickly.
What is the Nutrition value of Veg Khichdi Recipe?
If you want to prepare a nutritious food with minimal time, there is no alternative to thisVeg khichdi. Today’s busy life many of us don’t have much time to spend in the kitchen even go to market for vegetables. Hence Khichdi is the best option for such people who need a perfectly well-balanced meal quickly and easily. The best part is very few everyday ingredients and no cooking expertise is needed.
The spices used, change the flavour profile of the rice and lentil dish by leaps and bounds. The taste of Rice and dal are gone well together. Adding Turmeric powder imparts a beautiful yellow shade to this veg masala khichdi. The magic is that you can use any vegetables of your choice with any combination of rice and dal and you will end up with a great flavour.
This is to be mentioned that This healthy recipe is for 5 years old kids to 90 years old people. This is like a comfort food for Everyone in India. This recipe is like a superfood in India. And So It’s a Nutrios super food, Indian mother even feeds their Infants This Kichdi dish. This yummy Vegetable Khichdi will be more nutritious by the addition of vitamin A rich carrots. The tempting colour, soft texture and slight sweetness of cooked carrots improve the flavour and texture of this meal.
This dish is an alternative to introducing your child to a mildly-spiced dish.
Is Veg KHichdi Dish is good for Babies?
Veg Dal Kichdi/Lentil Khichdi is Easy, one pot wholesome anytime comforting One meal. Dal khichdi is a best nutritious food for babies. It’s a much comforting food to offer when a child or adult is sick. The soft textured, masala vegetable khichdi is full of nutrition and good for babies. It is light on the stomach and easy to digest.
Variations in Indian Veg Khichdi Recipe
Khichdi comes with many variations as simple khichdi, masala khichdi or Sago/Tapioca pearls khichdi, rich dal khichdi based on the different region of India. Each locality has its own version as they use a different proportion of rice and dal, different spices and the variety of lentils to prepare the dish. Veg Khichdi recipe also made with many combinations like Tapioca pearls with yellow moong dal, Amaranth with moong dal, oats with dals and cracked wheat with yellow dal.
A rich and firm textured khichdi is my favourite. For that with one cup of rice, use 1/4 cup of Yellow lentil or dal and 1/4 of chopped vegetables of your choice and 3 cups of water. If you want to get more Flavor in your baby food just add some fresh coriander leaves or curry leaves which gives a beautiful aroma to the dish.
What are the main Things You have to Follow when You are making A Delicious Veg Khichdi?
This is a good recipe for every season.
When you are running out of time use Rice cooker or pressure cooker to prepare the dish.
For great taste use whole Indian spices like cloves, cinnamon, star anise, cardamom and bay leaf instead of ready-made garam masala powder. The whole spices leave a mild aroma and flavour to the rice and lentil dish.
You can add any sort of vegetables of your choice like carrot, potato, french beans, green peas, onions, tomatoes etc. It is also good to use a mix of different dals like yellow moong dal, Arhar dal or tur and chana or split green gram dal(Alls are Indian Lentils).
Cracked wheat with yellow dal khichdi is very good for weight loss to diet followers so You can use this dish If you are trying to lose weight just Replace the Rice with Crack wheat in the Same recipe.
For frying vegetables, I prefer to use pure ghee only as it adds a rich flavour to the dish. But you can use a combination of ghee and oil. At the same time, I must say that this instant one pot dish tastes equally good with vegetable oil also.
Depending upon the consistency of the dish the texture may be rich or soft. But by increasing the water quantity you can easily control the texture.
For serving you can use any pickle of choice and yoghurt or raita.
Why Am I Making This Dish?
My son Just loves khichdi. So I make this almost every week. This vegetable dal khichdi is suitable for babies from 8 months after introducing rice, lentils and vegetables separately. So I am sharing easy to make vegetable dal khichdi recipe for babies, toddlers and kids. Hope It will be a Helpful dish for mommy’s and will sure try this dish for your Kids and on your busy day.
If You have any Recipe Request Or any suggestion Please let me know in the comment box. I will surely help you.
| Servings | Prep Time | Cook Time |
| 4People | 10Minutes | 20-25Minutes |
| Servings | Prep Time |
| 4People | 10Minutes |
| Cook Time |
| 20-25Minutes |
- 2 Cup Short grain rice Any rice of your choice.Even can use Basmati rice no issue.
- 1 Cup Yellow moong dal/Lentil
- 1/2 Cup Diced carrots
- 1/2 Cup Fresh green peas Or Frozen
- 1/2 Cup Diced culiflower
- 1/2 Cup Diced potatoes
- 1 Tsp Grated Ginger
- 1/2 Tsp Asafoetida
- 1 Tsp Turmeric powder
- 1 Tsp Ground Cumin seeds
- 1 Big or small Bay leaf
- 1 Tsp Whole Cumin seeds
- 2 Tsp Salt or salt as per your tast
- 1 Tsp Suger Or any sweetner of your choice.even you can use stevia as well.
- 5-6 Cups Hot Water
Ingredients
Servings: People Units: |
- Take a soup pot.
- Put all the Rice,dal/lentil,potatoes,carrots,green peas,cauliflower,salt,sugar,turmeric powder and 5 cups of water.
- Close the pot with a lid and boil all the ingredients for 20 mins over the medium heat.
- Just after 20 mints open the lid of the pot and check.If the all vegetables,lentil and rice can be easily smash by a spoon that means alls are cooked now turn off the flame. Add more water if required.
- But if Vegetables,rice or dal any of one is hard to smash that means it's undercooked. Then cook all the ingredients like the same way for few more minutes.Add more water if required.
- Oce all done well then make a another frying pan heat enough and now put 1 Tbsp ghee or butter or olive oil to the pan over the low heat.
- Just then every quickly add Asafoetida,Whole Cumin seeds,Bay Leaf,grated ginger to the pan fry just for 2-3 mints over the very low heat.
- After 2-3 mins pour the frayed mixture over the pre boiled rice,dal and vegetables.
- Mix well all the ingradients.Now the super food one meal Khichdi is ready to serve.
- I like to serve this dish as hot as possible with some ghee and deep fried aubergine slices.You can d like me or can eat just like it is.
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