How to Prepare Delicious Bengali khichuri recipe

Bengali khichuri recipe. A delicious Bengal khichuri from Anamika Sharma. Unlike the regular khichdi recipe, Bengali khichuri follows an extensive cooking process and takes some extra time. You need to first make a masala with whole garam masala and ginger paste.

Bengali Khichuri Recipe Bengali khichuri is an explosion of taste, aromas and flavours. Made with Gobindobhog rice, roasted moong ki daal, vegetables, whole spices and desi ghee. Durga Puja in Bengal is incomplete without this special bhog khichuri or Bengali Moong Dal Khichdi. You can cook Bengali khichuri recipe using 24 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Bengali khichuri recipe

1. Prepare 2 cups of Rice.
2. You need 1 cup of Moong dal.
3. You need As needed of vegetables.
4. You need As needed of Cabbage.
5. It's 1 of Potato.
6. You need 1 of Beans.
7. You need 500 grams of Peas total vegetables.
8. It's 1 of tomato chopped.
9. It's 2 of onion chopped.
10. Prepare 1/2 tsp of jeera powder roasted.
11. It's 2 of green chilli.
12. Prepare 1 tsp of chilli Powder.
13. It's 1/4 tsp of haldi powder.
14. Prepare 2 tsp of ginger garlic paste.
15. Prepare 4 tsp of ghee.
16. Prepare 4 tsp of oil.
17. You need 2 of onions chopped for garnishing fried onions.
18. It's As needed of garnishing green coriander leaves.
19. It's 1 of bay leaf.
20. Prepare 1/2 inch of dalchini / cinnamon.
21. It's 2 of cloves.
22. It's 2 of elaichi / cardamom.
23. It's 1/2 tsp of garam masala.
24. You need 9 cups of water.

Fry the onion slices till translucent. Fry the garlic and ginger paste too. Add the lentils and rice, potatoes, tomatoes, green chillies and other spices. Fry or saute them for a while.

Bengali khichuri recipe instructions

1. First take the moong dal roast the light brown colour and keep aside.
2. Chopped all the vegetables. Soak the rice for 15 minutes...
3. Fry two onions brown colour for garnishing..
4. In a pan put 2 tsp oil and heat it then add potato fry for 1 minute then add all the vegetables and fry for 5 minutes and keep aside.
5. In a pressure cooker put oil and ghee and add bay leaves, cloves, cardamom and dalchini,jeera and add onions fry for 2 minutes then add tomatoes fry for one minute then add ginger garlic paste and add red chilli powder c**** powder and haldi powder and fry for few seconds then add fry vegetables and roast moong dal and mix well then add rice and fry for 2 minutes then add water how much you need and last you can add salt to taste and garam masala....
6. Close the pressure cooker and take 4 whistles and off the flame and cool it then open and garnish with fried onion and coriander leaves and put one tablespoon ghee. Masala khichdi is ready it is very delicious........

Heat the ghee in a deep non-stick kadhai, add the bayleaves and the prepared powder and sauté on a medium flame for a few seconds. There is a non-veg version of this recipe as well. Bengali Bhuni Khichuri was one of the dishes I cooked all through the Dugra Pujo. I was able to click a few decent pictures as well. Moreover, I experimented with the recipe and finally, here I am with an easy to do the process of making perfect Bengali Bhuni Khichuri.