Sabudana Khichdi Recipe | Vrat Recipes

Ingredients

• 1 cup Sabudana (tapioca pearl) before soaking
• 1 cups of water
• 1 medium potato peeled and diced
• ⅔ cup coarsely grinned peanut
• ½ tbsp ginger paste
• 2 green chili (medium spicy)
• salt to taste (sidhav namak for fasting)
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 1tbsp lemon juice
• ½ tbsp cumin seeds
• 2 tbsp oil (peanut or sesame oil)
• Fistful of chopped cilantro

Instructions

1. Take sabudana into a colander and wash until clear water appears. Get rid of most of the starch for preventing sticking.
2. Place washed sabudana into a big bowl and add 1 cup water to soak it. As mentioned earlier soak for 3-4 hours. You can soak them overnight also.
3. Do the smash test described above, if it will pass then ready to cook.
4. Take oil in a non-stick pan, once it heated add cumin seeds. Let it crackle.
5. Then add diced potato and salt for potato. Cover the pan with lid. Cook them on low flame until tender. Stir them occasionally.
6. Once potato cooks add, curry leaves chilies and ginger paste. Cook for half to 1 minute.
7. Meantime add peanut, salt, sugar into sabudana, and mix well.
8. Finally, add sabudana mixture into a pan and stir everything and cook till sabudana looks little translucent. Finally, add the lemon juice and switch off the flame.
9. Add a generous amount of cilantro and server with some roasted peanuts. you can serve it with hot tea or some flavored yogurt.

Notes

1) If you are not making this recipe for fasting then you can add ½ tsp turmeric powder and 1 tbsp red chili powder.
2) You can add this recipe in the kid's lunchbox also.