Sabudana khichri

Item: Sabudana khichri (Also used in fasts with Sendha namak, this is different than rock salt or kala namak)

Sabudana Khichri


Serving for 3 people 
Preparation Time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 12 minutes

Ingredients:
  1. Sabudana – 1 cup
  2. Potato – 1 small
  3. Tomato – 1 small (optional)
  4. Cumin seeds
  5. Salt – to taste
  6. Red chili powder – To taste
  7. Green chill – 1 medium finely chopped
  8. Peanuts – ½ cup fried in oil
  9. Oil – 1.5 Tbsp
Method
  1. Sabudana has to be soaked overnight to be prepared next day morning.
  2. To soak sabudana, take 1 cup sabudana in a deep bowl, wash it with water twice to clean.
  3. Add water to this sabudana, just slightly above the level of sabudana. Too much water may cause sabudana to become very wet.
  4. Let this soak overnight for around 8 hours.
  5. Once Sabudana is soaked next day morning, drain out excess water if any into a strainer.
  6. Finely chop potato & tomato.
  7. In a frying pan /kadhai, add oil. Once oil is heated add cumin (jeera) seeds, when cumin pops add chopped potato.
  8. Keep lid on the frying pan / kadhai so that potato gets cooked.
  9. After 2-3 minutes, stir potato to ensure it doesn’t get stuck in frying pan / kadhai.
  10. IN 5-7 minutes potato should look cooked & it should feel soft when you try to cut it with spoon / stirrer.
  11. Once potato is done, add tomato & chopped green chili, add some red chili powder.
  12. Mix well & add fried peanuts .
  13. Now add sabudana & mix with vegetables. Keep gas flame to medium. Note: Right now sabudana will look completely white and uncooked like in picture Image 2 below.Slowly it will start turning off white / transparent.

Image 2

14. Keep lid on the frying pan / kadhai and let it cook in steam a bit, open lid in 2 minutes and stir softly, add 1 tbsp water so that sabudana won’t stick to frying pan / kadhai base. Keep gas flame to low.

15. Slowly sabudana will start changing color like in image 3.

16. Keep stirring till all of the Sabudana becomes transparent / off white, this will take around 7-8 minutes.


Image 3


17. Take this out in a serving bowl & add chopped coriander leaves to garnish. J

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