Sabudana Khichdi Recipe
Sabudana khichdi is prepared with potato, soaked sabudana, peanuts, and spices. Sabudana khichdi is also known as fasting food as it is prepared during Indian festivals like Navratri, Shivratri, and Krishna Janmashtami.
Ingredients
- 125 g Sabudana
- 1 tablespoon Ghee or Oil
- 100 ml Water
- ¼ cup Peanut, crushed
- 1 tablespoon Sabut peanut
- 1 teaspoon Rock Salt
- ½ teaspoon Black or White Pepper Powder
- 2 teaspoon Green Chili, chopped
- 1 piece Potato, chopped
- 1 piece Tomato, chopped
- 1 tablespoon Coriander & Mint leaves, chopped
- 1 teaspoon Rai(Mustard) or Jira(Cumin)
- 5-6 pieces Curry leaves
- ½ teaspoon Sugar
- 1 teaspoon Lemon Juice
Instructions
Soaking of Sabudana
- Wash sabudana 3-4 times and soak for 5-6 hours in 100ml water. Do not take boiled/cold water.
- Wash the sabudana with water several times so that the starch gets washed away.
- Soaking sabudana overnight gives better results. Sabudana becomes almost double in size when it absorbs water.
- It should be checked that the sabudana has been properly soaked. To check this, press a few sabudana pieces in between your thumb and index finger. If it gets smashed easily, it means that sabudana has been soaked properly.
- If you feel that sabudana is still hard, sprinkle some water over it and keep it aside for an hour.
Preparing Khichdi
- Place sabudana in a big bowl.Pour salt ½ teaspoon and sugar ½ teaspoon over sabudana and mix well.
- Heat ghee or oil in a pan on medium flame.On heating, pour 1 tablespoon sabut peanuts and fry on low flame. Keep aside peanuts on a plate.
- In ghee or oil, add rai or jira in the same pan on medium flame.
- When rai or jira starts to splutter, add chopped green chilli and curry leaves and saute them for 1 minute.
- Now add chopped potato over this mixture with ¼ teaspoon salt and mix well.
- Cover the pan with a lid to cook on low flame for 1-2 minutes.
- Note: It’s important that the potatoes should be cut small in size so that it gets cooked quickly.
- Remove the lid and cook for 3-4 minutes stirring often until potatoes are almost cooked.
- Add crushed peanuts and cook for another 2-3 minutes.
- Now add chopped tomato and black/white pepper and cook again for 2-3 minutes.
- Add sabudana and mix well.
- Cook for 3-4 minutes on high flame and stir continuously. Switch off the gas and cover the pan with a lid and keep aside for 2-3 minutes.
- Pour fried peanuts and lemon juice in sabudana khichdi. Garnish with coriander leaves.
- Sabudana khichdi is ready to serve.You can also serve it with curd to enhance its taste.